Well after rolling up my sleeves I quickly discovered the solution was close at hand and essentially trivial. Perhaps this will help someone else:
1. Version 405 (not sure about earlier) has "thePrint" in ..include/declarations.inc initialized from a url parameter. Any jahia url such as http://localhost:8080/jahia/Jahia?print=1 will render without the header, footer, and side navigation - this is essentially what I wanted. 2. Giving the use a clickable link is as simple as putting <a href="javascript:printfriendly();">print </a> in header.inc and in the same file putting " function printfriendly() { window.location.href=window.location.href + "?print=1"; } " Using a function will make it easier to manage opening a new window. -----Original Message----- From: George Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: printer-friendly template questions Thanks for your suggestions Greg! I have been having thoughts along these lines and certainly expect to create specialized css for this. I still have a faint hope that a jahia template expert has gone thru this - at least the printer part - and can supply an optimized template or fragment there-of that implements this feature (not the css). ... I don't think this violates the mailing list policy (apologies if I'm wrong!) but recognizing that time - even mine - is money I'm willing to purchase this experience, within reason. I would be happy to be contacted directly about this to discuss T&Cs. regards George. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Kerdemelidis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: printer-friendly template questions Hi George, Just a couple of suggestions here: 1) The trick here would be to have a media=print css file, while is included in all the pages. You would have to look through the web layout and produce appropriate printer versions of the tags/id's. Things like stripping out the menu + header, hiding the footer, etc. Have a google around for more information about this. It's possibly not what you're looking for, but it does give your users the ability to produce good-looking ad-hoc prints from the site. We have used this approach successfully a few times in the past. 2) You could implement this by having the page link encode the current URL and pass it as a parameter to another template / servlet: Eg, for a page /jahia/Jahia/pid/123, produce a link looking something like: /Jahia/Jahia/sendtofriend?url=/jahia/Jahia/pid/123 The sendtofriend template would use the RequestDispatcher to dispatch the request internally to /jahia/Jahia/pid/123, collect the result in a StreamBuffer (or whatever), and send that to the recipient. Oh, you'd need a page with the target email address form first, but you get my drift... Sound about right? Regards, Greg Kerdemelidis Senior Java Developer MSO New York -- A Diligent Company Christchurch, New Zealand -----Original Message----- From: George Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2005 9:44 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: printer-friendly template questions I have two related questions. 1. I want to create a printer-friendly view of any page of site content. The latest documentation has nothing on this yet - but has an empty section showing that this is planned. Can a Jahia team member please post a pre-release version of that information to advise on how best to do this. I am sure this has been done by other Jahia users and I really don't want to re-invent this, so I would very much appreciate some sample template code. 2. I want to create a feature to "send this page to a friend" - the contents in printer-friendly format, not just the URL - to a specified email address. Same points as above. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks, George.
