RE: printer-friendly template questions

Well after rolling up my sleeves I quickly discovered the solution was close
at hand and essentially trivial.
Perhaps this will help someone else:

1. Version 405 (not sure about earlier) has "thePrint" in
..include/declarations.inc initialized from a url parameter.
   Any jahia url such as http://localhost:8080/jahia/Jahia?print=1 will
render without the header, footer, and side
   navigation - this is essentially what I wanted.
2. Giving the use a clickable link is as simple as putting 
   <a href="javascript:printfriendly();">print </a> in header.inc and in the
same file putting 
    "  function printfriendly() { window.location.href=window.location.href
+ "?print=1"; }  "
   Using a function will make it easier to manage opening a new window.
   

-----Original Message-----
From: George Myers [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: printer-friendly template questions

Thanks for your suggestions Greg!

I have been having thoughts along these lines and certainly expect to create
specialized css for this.
I still have a faint hope that a jahia template expert has gone thru this -
at least the printer part - and can supply an optimized template or fragment
there-of that implements this feature (not the css).
... I don't think this violates the mailing list policy (apologies if I'm
wrong!) but recognizing that
time - even mine - is money I'm willing to purchase this experience, within
reason.   I would be happy
to be contacted directly about this to discuss T&Cs.

regards
George.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Kerdemelidis [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: printer-friendly template questions


Hi George,

Just a couple of suggestions here:

1) The trick here would be to have a media=print css file, while is included
in all the pages. You would have to look through the web layout and produce
appropriate printer versions of the tags/id's. Things like stripping out the
menu + header, hiding the footer, etc. Have a google around for more
information about this. It's possibly not what you're looking for, but it
does give your users the ability to produce good-looking ad-hoc prints from
the site. We have used this approach successfully a few times in the past.

2) You could implement this by having the page link encode the current URL
and pass it as a parameter to another template / servlet:

Eg, for a page /jahia/Jahia/pid/123, produce a link looking something
like:

/Jahia/Jahia/sendtofriend?url=/jahia/Jahia/pid/123

The sendtofriend template would use the RequestDispatcher to dispatch the
request internally to /jahia/Jahia/pid/123, collect the result in a
StreamBuffer (or whatever), and send that to the recipient. Oh, you'd need a
page with the target email address form first, but you get my drift...

Sound about right?

Regards,

Greg Kerdemelidis
Senior Java Developer
 

MSO New York -- A Diligent Company
Christchurch, New Zealand


-----Original Message-----
From: George Myers [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2005 9:44 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: printer-friendly template questions

I have two related questions.

1. I want to create a printer-friendly view of any page of site content.
  The latest documentation has nothing on this yet
  - but has an empty section showing that this is planned.
   Can a Jahia team member please post a pre-release version of that
information to
   advise on how best to do this.   I am sure this has been done by
   other Jahia users and I really don't want to
   re-invent this, so I would very much appreciate some sample template
code.

2. I want to create a feature to "send this page to a friend" 
  - the contents in printer-friendly format, not just the URL -
   to a specified email address.   Same points as above.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
George.