Printing issues

[John N. Gonzalez]

I cannot seem to get a script to print to a local default printer.  Is printing a problem with Webdirect?

[GerthKe]

WebDirect doesn't support printing. What you can do is use your web browsers print function. 

[John N. Gonzalez]

Thanks for your input.  I have a lot of clients using webdirect but using FileMaker Go on ipads and it is a simple task to print to an air printer.  Obviously, my question was for webdirect users on windows computers.  I already figured out that the script does not support the "print" statement.  I was hoping for an optional solution that I could implement.  Hopefully, the folks at FileMaker will come up with a way to print in the near future.

[gozoinks]

Here, we've had to use a PDF-generating "robot" that exports a PDF of a record and re-imports the PDF into a container field. The user can then download and print the PDF.

 

It is terribly inelegant.

 

But the underlying Vaadin framework of the WebDirect platform is designed in such a way that printing from the browser is awkward, and FileMaker Server doesn't have any way of generating PDFs the way FileMaker Pro does, so the robot technique about as good as it gets until we put together a Custom Web Publishing application for this.