By wposey on

Maybe I am missing something simple, but I thought there was an easy way to make a link on the output of a views pages (specifically the user list page that comes with views by default)...

How can I simply add a "Printer Friendly" image/text link to my view....and have it only print out the data? (and not the rest of my web page and theme)

Thanks!

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jim0203’s picture

jim0203 commented

Have you seen print.module? http://drupal.org/project/print

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wposey commented

yes, i have it installed. But i can't find the option for it to work in the view configuration

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jim0203 commented

I've not used it for a while, but I guess it wouldn't integrate directly with Views in this way. Doesn't it add links to pages? Wouldn't it then add the links to a page produced by Views?

I'm guessing here, though, so I'd welcome an opinion from someone who uses the module regularly.

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wposey commented

bump

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wposey commented

ttt

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wposey commented

ttt

jim0203’s picture

jim0203 commented

Please stop bumping this thread. If someone can help you, they will.

Have you tried my suggestion above, regarding creating a view as a page? Does that add the printer-friendly link that you need?

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wposey commented

No I have tried that and I do not see an option for it?

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wposey commented

In fact the view is already displayed as a page .... "Display the view as a page, with a URL and menu links. "

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jdm843 commented

Have you tried following FAQ #7 for printer friendly module....#190173: Print: 5. Frequently Asked Questions and putting link in your page view header or footer? Set the input format to php.

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jim0203 commented

I've had to work out to do this for one of my sites. There's an issue in the issue queue for the standard print module at http://drupal.org/node/341686.

It turns out that if you've got a page on your site (including a view) with path path/to/my/page then going to the page with path print/path/to/my/page will provide a printable version of that page.

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MBroberg commented

Yes it works to put a header in the calendar page that says
<a href="/print/calendar">Printer-friendly calendar<br /></a>

but then how can you do the same for a taxonomy view page that has a token tid for each term?

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somebodysysop commented

Put this in the Header of the view for which you wish to have a "printer friendly" link.

print '<a href="/print'. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] .'">Printer-friendly<br /></a>';

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sephie commented

There is a solution to this problem described here: http://drupal.org/node/81361 (see comment section). The poster originally wanted a solution to placing the print-friendly text on a calendar view, but the solution should work with any custom view.

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supriyarajgopal commented

Hello,
You can do it by following these steps..Worked for me.
1. Download the Print module.Here is the link https://drupal.org/project/print
2. Enable the module and navigate to admin/config/user-interface/print in your drupal site
3. Enter the View URL under 'Show link in system (non-content) pages > Show on only the listed pages.'
4. Save configuration
5. Provide permission to access printer-friendly pages in 'admin/people/permissions > Printer-friendly pages'
6. Visit your View and you will find the link to create a printer friendly version of it.