DEVELOPERS FORUM - Printing a form from Aras innovator 10

BMoberg - Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:09 AM:

Still testing Aras as a newbie...

I have replaced one of many excel files with a form in Aras, to take advantages of status, relationships and workflows etc - Pretty nice!

The problem is that we need to be able to provide the information written in the form (text, dates and checkboxes) to external persons (as we use to to with the excel file)
Printing does'nt seem to work (in IE9) - it sometimes does, but then the result will not show any checked checkboxes?
And there is no way to convert the page into a pdf (which had been the best solution).

The layout of the form is the layout we want to send, so i guess reports isn't the solution in this case.

Any suggestions?

Thanks /Benny

zahar - Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:15 AM:

You need to look at Report engine.

Start here:

http://www.aras.com/support/documentation/DocumentView.aspx?file=./10.0/Other%20Documents/Aras%20Innovator%2010.0%20-%20XSLT%20Report%20Tool%20Users%20Guide.pdf

And then this:

http://www.aras.com/support/documentation/DocumentView.aspx?file=./10.0/Other%20Documents/Aras%20Innovator%2010.0%20-%20Microsoft%20Reporting%20Services%202012%20Guide.pdf

BMoberg - Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:20 AM:

Thanks Zahar!

BMoberg - Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:27 AM:

Just so I understand,
So there is no easy way to just print/capture the form I've already created? I need to design the complete form once again (with all pictures, colors, java codes showing information and specific layout with checkboxes), but this time by coding it all in the reporting-tool? Is it possible to create an exact clone of a form and not just a report with gridlines?

Feels like the temporary (not so good) solution, taking a snapshot using "snagit" or doing a "print screen", will be more effective.