Power Table printing, fit to page

Ignition
1

I am able to print the power table with the script below with a mouse click but it is very hard to see. Is there away to fit it to the page so it is more readable?

# Get a reference to the power table
powerTable = event.source.parent.getComponent("Power Table") # Get a reference to the table
powerTable.print()
2

Has anyone done this before in scripting? or I found this. (.setFitToPage) But I am not for sure how to add it.

3

Try using system.print.createPrintJob() instead of your table’s .print() method.

{ Edit: s/util/print/ }

4

I get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<event:actionPerformed>", line 4, in <module>

AttributeError: 'com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.Imm' object has no attribute 'createPrintJob'

Script I tried

powerTable = system.util.createPrintJob(event.source.parent.getComponent("Power Table"))
powerTable.print()
5

Sorry, typo. Lesson: use the linked examples, not the typo in my post. Take note of that error message – it usually means a typo in a function name. I also don’t recommend you keep the “powerTable” variable name for a print job – not if you want to understand this code when you revisit it next year.

6

I got it to work with the script from the link but this is what it prints. It cuts it off and doesn’t fit it to the page.
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Here is the script i am using

job = system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent.getComponent('Power Table'))
job.setShowPrintDialog(1)
job.setPageHeight(11)
job.setPageWidth(8.5)
job.setMargins(.5)
job.setFitToPage(1)
job.setOrientation(1)
job.setZoomFactor(.4)
job.print()
7

I would expect fit-to-page and zoom factor to be contradictory. Since zoom is later in your code, it seems to have overridden the fit-to-page option.

8

with zoom commented out it shows the full powertable from side to side when you print it but it doesn’t fit it to the full page length wise

9

even if I take every thing out of the code like this it still doesn’t fit it to the page

job = system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent.getComponent('Power Table'))
job.setFitToPage(1)
#job.setShowPrintDialog(1)
#job.setPageHeight(11)
#job.setPageWidth(8.5)
#job.setMargins(.5)
#job.setOrientation(1)
#job.setZoomFactor(.25)
job.print()
10

The system.print function doesn’t perform layout again (I believe) - so the print job will keep the same aspect ratio as whatever client is actively rendering it/however it was laid out in the designer. It will scale one axis to fit (in this case width) but not reflow the contents to fit vertically. This is just a limitation of the system.print functions. You may need to look into the reporting module if you need dynamic printouts of data.