Print Screen Button

[josh3]

Hi,

I’m having trouble with getting the print script to work,

job = system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent)
job.setShowPrintDialog(0)
job.print()

I’m running this script from within a configured event on a momentary.

I get the following error when I use the button in the designer preview mode:

Error running action ‘dom.onMouseDown’ on project/site/area/Processing Statistics/Components/PrinterButton@D$0:1/root/Button: AttributeError: ‘com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.Imm’ object has no attribute ‘print’

Regards,

[Kevin.Herron]

That function is Vision Client scope only, you can’t use it in Perspective.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to capture a screenshot and print it from Perspective.

Perspective Screenshot Capture

This would currently require a custom module - capturing screenshots from web browsers is a surprisingly complicated problem. Your best bet in the short term might be to try to train users to use built-in browser tools - new versions of Firefox, for instance, have a very powerful built in screenshotting tool. What’s the use case of these screenshots, out of curiosity?

[josh3]

Thanks for your response,

Does that include a control+P type function? where the operators need to print to PDF or a local printer.

Regards,

[Kevin.Herron]

They can hit ctrl-P and let the browser print.

[josh3]

hahaha, that’s a fair point.

But I’m changing over a brownfields site from Factory Talk and they want the exact same functionality.

[Kevin.Herron]

Vision may have been a better choice for 1:1 functionality. Building for the browser is a very different paradigm.

[pturmel]

Don’t hold your breath waiting for this. Browser security pretty much prohibits anything like it. Maybe possible in the future in Perspective Workstation.