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hi all...
i use chronoforn to create student registration form..

and i want to put print button in my form..

chronoform can do this or not?

anyone can help me please..

this is urgently...

Hi hafizsyrimo,

You can create an output page with the data you want to print and use &tmpl=component in the URL to remove the template from the output. This usually makes a good printable page.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Here is my chrono form printable version http://bkyouth.org/index.php?option=com_chronoforms&chronoform=YouthWingRegForm&tmpl=component

But i want to capture the values entered by user and print the form how to do this?

Please do the need ASAP

With Regards,
Prashant

Hi Prashant,

I'm not sure what you are asking here? I'd expect that the form would use the template and that the printable version would display the data after the form is submitted?

Bob

Hi Bob,

I m planning to print the data entered by the user after submit.

I am able to display entire data in a Thank You message, but couldn't able to get a printable version with a print button

so how to do it?

with regards,
prashant.

Hi prashant,

There's a Print button solution here

Bob

I saw the solution that takes place after the submit. Say I'm the user and I want to print a copy for my records before I submit the forms. Is there a way to print directly from the form?
If not I suppose I could ask if they wanted a copy of the form emailed to them and use the second email for that. The only problem with emailing would be if I were to encrypt the form, they wouldn't get the code to read it.
Les

Hi Les,

You could adapt the same code to print from the form, but why would you want to print before the from is submitted (and therefore unvalidated). Using a confirmation page of some kind would make more sense to me.

Bob

HI Greyhead, There are always multiple views, LOL. In answer to your question, Someone may want to print out the form blank first, so they could get the information together for entry. Then After printing the form before submission, they may want to review it for errors. I'm doing forms for an accountant and people tend to be a little critical when it's related to finance.
I have tried to just get the Joomla Print Icon to show but I have not gained success on that one yet.
Les

Hi Les,

You're right - I hadn't thought of printing the empty form; though I think the same code will work there too.

Bob

Grey, I really like this extension and I've been working for a while on a solution to get a nice printout of a finished form. I spent a while familiarizing myself with HTML and wrote the HTML code to put in the "Template" area of the Email Action. I filled out the form, clicked the option to send a copy to my email address and waited. I got a beautiful form with Bold Headings, spacing and a Image Logo at the top of the document. I thought WOW, this is perfect. I have a AT&T Yahoo Email account. I had someone else enter the form and put their GMail email address into the form. The copy they got was one size, one color crunched content and no logo.
The whole purpose of filling out a form online is to get data but the data could be in a nice readable format that could be printed and filed with a customers data. The Forms appearance seems to be dependent on the receivers Email software. Any ideas about how to work around this issue?
Are we back to PDF files where everyone has to have the same PDF version running on their computer to see the correct form format?
Just looking for a solution.

Hi Les,

Any ideas about how to work around this issue?

The only answer that I know of is to test on the main email providers. In this case I suspect that your CSS isn't being read by GMail - though it is usually one of the more tolerant email readers.

Bob