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FileMaker 16
Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers, so the best option is printing a screenshot of the calendar view. It is possible, however, to automate saving these screenshots to pdf; check out this post for more info: Printing Web Viewers in FileMaker 16. Otherwise, you can keep a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.
FileMaker 16+
Unfortunately, FileMaker 16+ does not support printing web viewers, so the best option is printing a screenshot of the calendar view. It is possible, however, to automate saving these screenshots to pdf; check out this post for more info: Printing Web Viewers in FileMaker 16. Otherwise, you can keep a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.
Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers, so you'll either need to print a screenshot of the calendar view or have a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.
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Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers, so the best option is printing a screenshot of the calendar view. It is possible, however, to automate saving these screenshots to pdf; check out this post for more info: Printing Web Viewers in FileMaker 16. Otherwise, you can keep a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.
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Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers anymore, so you'll either need to print a screenshot of the calendar view or have a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.
Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers, so you'll either need to print a screenshot of the calendar view or have a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.
FileMaker 16
Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers anymore, so you'll either need to print a screenshot of the calendar view or have a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.
FileMaker 13-15
DayBack user Robert Parker told us about a really cool alternative method for printing your DayBack calendar view. It uses the "copy from Preview Mode" FileMaker trick, but with a couple of twists. Read about it and add your comment on our forum.
DayBack user Robert Parker told us about a really cool alternative method for printing your DayBack calendar view. It uses the "copy from Preview Mode" FileMaker trick, but with a couple of twists. Read about it and add your comment on our forum.
The calendar is blank when printing in a script!
DayBack's webviewer triggers a FileMaker script to gather your event data when navigating to the calendar layout. If there is an active script (running or paused) when the webviewer attempts to trigger the script, your events will not be loaded.
To get around this, separate out everything after your "Go To Layout" step into a second script. Then, after that "Go To Layout" step in your first script, use an "Install OnTimer Script" step calling the second script. Set the timer interval to 6 seconds; you can likely reduce the interval, so test with different values after the script is working. Be sure to put an empty "Install OnTimer Script" step at the top of your second script, so that the timer does not continue to run!
This will allow DayBack's scripts to fire properly (loading your events), followed by the rest of your scripted print process.
DayBack user Robert Parker told us about a really cool alternative method for printing your DayBack calendar view. It uses the "copy from Preview Mode" FileMaker trick, but with a couple of twists. Read more...
DayBack user Robert Parker told us about a really cool alternative method for printing your DayBack calendar view. It uses the "copy from Preview Mode" FileMaker trick, but with a couple of twists. Read about it and add your comment on our forum.
The list view won't automatically "keep up" with the day, week, and month views so you'll need to build the found set to be printed by hand, or write scripts to find just the events you want to print.
The list view won't automatically "keep up" with the day, week, and month views so you'll need to build the found set to be printed by hand, or write scripts to find just the events you want to print.
A user-submitted alternative printing method
DayBack user Robert Parker told us about a really cool alternative method for printing your DayBack calendar view. It uses the "copy from Preview Mode" FileMaker trick, but with a couple of twists. Read more...
The calendar will print whatever is on screen so the only challenge with printing is to get the screen to fit on a sheet of paper. You'll likely want to hide the calendar's sidebar and set FileMaker's page set up to horizontal. Then change the scale to 60%.
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Webviewers don't print when they're anchored to opposing sides of a layout so in order to print DayBack you'll want to make a new, simple layout for printing. Here's how:
How can I change the way then calendar prints?
We print calendar screens using the layout "Calendar - no Side Menu". So you can make some changes there, but remember that this is also the layout you use in browse mode when you hide the calendar's side bar, so you probably won't want to make radical changes here.
If you do want a print layout that is radically different from the screen version, consider duplicating the "Calendar - no Side Menu" layout and making a version of it just for printing (adjust the script "Print Calendar Screen" to use your new layout instead of "Calendar - no Side Menu").
Any Tips for Printing DayBack?
The calendar will print whatever is on screen so the only challenge with printing is to get the screen to fit on a sheet of paper. You'll likely want to hide the calendar's sidebar and set FileMaker's page set up to horizontal. Then change the scale to 60%.
https://www.seedcode.com/rootimages/stikipad/dayback/pagesetup.png
Using such a custom print list layout is really the only way to print all the information about an event. The calendar's grid-based screens are just too constrained to print more than a small part of an event, or a small number of the events for a day.
Using such a custom print list layout is really the only way to print all the information about an event. The calendar's grid-based screens are just too constrained to print more than a small part of an event, or a small number of the events for a day.
The list view won't automatically "keep up" with the day, week, and month views so you'll need to build the found set to be printed by hand, or write scripts to find just the events you want to print.
Remember that you can also print the Event List layout if you want to see more records than can show up on a month view (for example). Sorting this layout by Start Date, Resource, or Status reveals one of the subsummary parts which can make the layout a bit easier to read. Here again you might consider duplicating this layout and using it as the basis for your own layout used only for printing.
Remember that you can also print the Event List layout if you want to see more records than can show up on a month view (for example). Sorting this layout by Start Date, Resource, or Status reveals one of the subsummary parts which can make the layout a bit easier to read. Here again you might consider duplicating this layout and using it as the basis for your own layout used only for printing. Such a layout might have a taller body part so that long event descriptions can print without being truncated.
Using such a custom print list layout is really the only way to print all the information about an event. The calendar's grid-based screens are just too constrained to print more than a small part of an event, or a small number of the events for a day.
If you do want a print layout that is radically different from the screen version, consider duplicating the "Calendar - no Side Menu" layout and making a version of it just for printing (adjust the script "Print Screen" to use your new layout instead of "Calendar - no Side Menu").
Remember that you can also print the Event List layout if you want to see more records than can show up on a month view (for example). Sorting this layout by Date reveals on of the subsummary parts which can make the layout a bit easier to read. Here again you might consider duplicating this layout and using it as the basis for your own layout used only for printing.
If you do want a print layout that is radically different from the screen version, consider duplicating the "Calendar - no Side Menu" layout and making a version of it just for printing (adjust the script "Print Calendar Screen" to use your new layout instead of "Calendar - no Side Menu").
Remember that you can also print the Event List layout if you want to see more records than can show up on a month view (for example). Sorting this layout by Start Date, Resource, or Status reveals one of the subsummary parts which can make the layout a bit easier to read. Here again you might consider duplicating this layout and using it as the basis for your own layout used only for printing.
We print most calendar screens using the layout "Calendar - no Side Menu". So you can make some changes there, but remember that this is also the layout you use in browse mode when you hide the calendar's side bar, so you probably won't want to make radical changes here.
We print calendar screens using the layout "Calendar - no Side Menu". So you can make some changes there, but remember that this is also the layout you use in browse mode when you hide the calendar's side bar, so you probably won't want to make radical changes here.
How can I change the way then calendar prints?
We print most calendar screens using the layout "Calendar - no Side Menu". So you can make some changes there, but remember that this is also the layout you use in browse mode when you hide the calendar's side bar, so you probably won't want to make radical changes here.
If you do want a print layout that is radically different from the screen version, consider duplicating the "Calendar - no Side Menu" layout and making a version of it just for printing (adjust the script "Print Screen" to use your new layout instead of "Calendar - no Side Menu").
Remember that you can also print the Event List layout if you want to see more records than can show up on a month view (for example). Sorting this layout by Date reveals on of the subsummary parts which can make the layout a bit easier to read. Here again you might consider duplicating this layout and using it as the basis for your own layout used only for printing.