Printing Multiple Containers

Ignition
1

Is it possible to print multiple containers at one time?

If so what would the syntax look like?

Such as:

job = system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent.getComponent(‘Container_Page1’)) and
system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent.getComponent(‘Container_Page2’)) and
system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent.getComponent(‘Container_Page3’)) and
system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent.getComponent(‘Container_Page4’))
job.setMargins(0.5)
job.zoomFactor = -1.0
job.orientation = system.print.LANDSCAPE
job.showPageFormat = 0
job.print()

2

You can print the root container which contains each sub container. The print function only takes a single component.

3

if I print the root container then i can’t read the other containers because they are too small. I have sized the containers to fit the paper size.

4

If there a way to print multiple pages of the root container?

5

Do you mean have one container spread out over multiple pages? If so, that can’t be done, as the system.print.createPrintJob() only handles putting components into one page. There is probably a way it can be done using Java’s API. For more information about using Java in Ignition:

inductiveautomation.com/support/ … g_java.htm

6

Root Container is 1280 x 3000, so it is too big to print on one page .

7

Another method would be sequentially printing several containers one after the other. That would be much simpler than messing about with the Java print API…

8

I am already doing this.

See previous post !

Can this be done without having to click the printer button 4 times?

9

If you are just sending things to the default printer, then you can turn off the dialog box with the showPrintDialog switch:

[code]job = system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent)
job.setMargins(0.5)
job.zoomFactor = 0.75
job.showPageFormat = 0

job.showPrintDialog = 0

job.print()[/code]

Perhaps if you had phrased the part about not wanting to hit the print button… :wink:

Of course, if there was a handy append method, that would be cool.