Printing a portal

Classic Servoy
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Is portal printing a good solution or it’s better to always create a related form “list view” and print from there?

I’m asking that because I set a portal to grow/shrink in height but, even if it has a lot of related record, the portal doesn’t grow to show them all (expanding to more than a single page, if it’s necessary).

I set it to show 5 rows: if the portal contains 50 records, the PrintPreview only shows 25 of them. And the portal doesn’t grow to the next page: so I’d like to understand how does the portal printing feature works…

2

did you set your body part to allow to break accross pages?
I also think in most cases printing from a list view is more convenient

3

jaleman:
did you set your body part to allow to break accross pages?

Yes.

jaleman:
I also think in most cases printing from a list view is more convenient

I agree. But since the portal is very simple, I just wanted to know if I can save a form printing the portal directly… :slight_smile:

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I print all my invoices_lineitems in a portal.
I had the same issues as you describe, and some more…

Jan , has fixed the problems in the upcoming release.

Portal printing (incl. smartbreaking etc.) is as just as simple now (I think much simpeler), as printing by a list-view!! :lol:

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HJK:
I print all my invoices_lineitems in a portal.
I had the same issues as you describe, and some more…

Jan , has fixed the problems in the upcoming release.

Portal printing (incl. smartbreaking etc.) is as just as simple now (I think much simpeler), as printing by a list-view!! :lol:

It’s a great feature: I’m lazy person and I really like this kind of timesaving add-ons :wink:

6

Problem will be fixed in Servoy 2.0 rc10

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Jan Blok:
Problem will be fixed in Servoy 2.0 rc10

What happens if I put two portals, set to grow when printing, on the same layout? Does the print grow accordingly to the size of the longest portal? It would be wonderful… :)

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yes, give it a try in Servoy 2.0 rc10 :)