can I print a form

[bookouri]

Is there any way I can configure a 6i form so that the user can print the form? Oracle Developer always does that print capture/print thing and only prints a bit of the form. I really hate to design a report to look like the existing form and then make the user push a print button. I cant blame the user's for asking why they cant just click on the print icon and print the form.

Our forms are running through 9ias, and I had hoped that the print behavior would be different in a browser, but its not.

thanks for any suggestions

 

[sem]

I suppose that there are so many options in printing form, that this task will never be automated :-( You may print either viewable records, or already seen (fetched),or all records that may be fetched by last query etc. The layout may differ as well as printing/not printing child blocks and other options. So the only way is to create report manually and make it as rich as you need. In client/server I developed a library that saved form content to HTML file and then opened it in browser. In fact procedure wasn't very complex. You may try to do something similar for the web.

Regards, Dima

 

[bookouri]

I guess Ill keep designing reports. There are just so many times when the user just wants to print the exact form that they see when they enter records..for example, If my user has just put in an employee and the employees basic information, dob, ssn, hiredate etc. they ALWAYS want to print that simple form as a cover sheet for the employee's paper file. If the data fit in one oracle &quot;screen&quot; it would be great, but because the data a couple of inches beyond the 4 or 5 inches that oracle will print (oracle is basically doing a screen print),then I have to try to design a report that looks exactly like the form that the user would be happy with if it would just print... <G>