I have a sail form with data filled in it. With the click of Submit, i want a sc

muditd over 9 years ago

I have a sail form with data filled in it. With the click of Submit, i want a screenshot (pdf image or word) created of that form that can be easily accesed later via related action. How can we make it possible?
Use case is that the user enters some information which he would like to print later on rather than passing data to a word template, user would just prefer a screenshot of his form as it has a better ui.
thanks folks!

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0 muditd over 9 years ago

to clarify - the purpose of screenshot is entirely the ability of printing something later on. User will not be going back to edit the form.
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0 Conor Cahill
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over 9 years ago

you can do this by making a dashboard that is the same as the form, but everything is read-only. When the user wants to print they can simply go to that dashboard and print the page.
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0 muditd over 9 years ago

Thanks !! Its a good way to go. How do we access this dashboard. Related action? Is this printing a usual browser print or some appian ability we can indue on the dashboard?
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0 Conor Cahill
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over 9 years ago

You'll have to create the dashboard. Looking at your record type, there should be a section for "dashboards" or "views". Here is where you'll make one for the form. You can create a new SAIL form that is almost the same as your user input one, except read-only. You can also do this through a related action on the record, sending the user to this read-only version of the form.
Once you're on the form you can use the browser's print.
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