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

Fed, are you willing to share your little form mentioned below.  I would
love to do something like this.

Reuben Cummings
GFC, LLC
812.523.1017


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Fred Hooper
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 3:06 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Send report to printer...after viewing
> 
> 
> For a similar purpose I use a tiny form that floats on top of the
> example report. It has print and cancel buttons on it. As it 
> works for a
> number of reports, I feed it the name of the report so it 
> knows which to
> print or cancel.
> 
> Fred
> 
> John Clark wrote:
> > 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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