add a print button on preview mode

[cmedata]

Hi, thank you for your help.

First of all, when I edit the privilege set, I set the available menu commands to minimum so the print menu is not available for the users. Usually I add a print button to the layout so users can print the layout if they want to. But i have a summary report which displays in preview mode, how do I add something similar to make the users able to print? I really want to have the control of if they can print or not because I don't want to them to print some layout.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[bcooney]

You cannot add buttons to Preview mode.

One approach is to write a report script that:

Allow user Abort [Off]

go to report layout

show status area (so that Continue button displays)

sort

preview (pause)

Show Dialog (Print?)

if Yes,

Print

end if

go to original layout

[Steven H. Blackwell]

You can customize the Status Area Toolbar in FileMaker Pro 10 in preview mode. There is a button for Print.

Steven

[bcooney]

Ah, but our OP is using FM7A. Time to upgrade, if possible?

[cmedata]

Thank you for your responses. I am using FileMaker Pro 9. I don’t think my user can figure out to click the continue button to open the print dialog. They want some thing more consistent, like the buttons they have in other layouts. Maybe I will upgrade to 10.

[bcooney]

I have had some users that have a blind spot when it comes to the Continue button on the left panel. You could script a Preview button from Browse mode that is separate from a Print button and only previews. The print wouldn't preview first.

[RalphL]

Take a look at http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demos.html

In the 747 set of files is sample that puts a pallet of buttons that work while the user in the preview mode.

[cmedata]

I think I can come up with something like this.

Thank you.