[AccessD] Send report to printer...after viewing

The way I do this is to create a print button in a menu, or ribon for 2007.
The print button opens the print dialog box. I also have a button for
sending the report to pdf. That button calls the Leban's print to pdf code.
All works well and looks professional. The menu property of the report is
set to this menu custom menu bar.

Doug 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Clark
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:46 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Send report to printer...after viewing

I just wrote a program that creates vouchers for court witnesses...they take
these vouchers to the county treasurer and get a check. As per the
suggestion of a list member...Reuben Cummings, I think it was...I built the
whole of the report via code. This worked out fantastically, and I am very
happy w/it. After typing in the witness and case data, the user can hit the
"Create Voucher" button, and you get a print preview of the voucher, and are
able to verify the information on it.
 
However...I would like there to be a way to send this to the printer, if it
looks correct. Currently one must click the office button and choose to
print, but I'd like a quicker option, if possible. When you then close the
preview, the form opens back up.
 
Here are my thoughts so far:
 
(A) Keep it the way it is... Hey, it works right? But, I like functionality,
and if I were the user, I'd like a button. This is an extra task that this
department is inheriting, from the courts, so this will already be an
interruption for them and I'd like to make it as simple as possible.
 
(B) Put a button on a form... Can you do this? It looks like you can, but
are they really buttons?
 
(C) Implement a "Hot Key"... If this is possible, it still really isn't very
intuitive...if the user and myself both die in tragic accidents
simultaneously...hey, anything is possible...will anyone know how to do
this?
 
(D) Kick up another form, along w/the report, which would have the buttons
on it
 
(E) Skip the whole idea of a preview and just send the darn thing to the
printer from the original button... this would be the easiest, and if there
is an error...oh, well!
 
Ideas? What do y'all do?
 
And, this actually...depending on how I end up going...may bring up another
issue. I'll make that another post though...
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