Few printing (basic reporting) stuff request/remarks

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#1

Hi !

I have few question regarding how I can print/produce some report (coming from seatable where there is a specific module for this, but globaly python + widget seems much more powerfull + hability to self host).

I’m trying to avoid custom widget as I do not want to dive in deep codes (though Vuejs is very nice)

So :

  • When printing a widget the color disappears (same issue on seatable)
  • I find no way to print a global page (document + all the widgets)
  • Already asked but a kind of customization (font, size) of the card label would help a lot
  • Suppose you have a doc with a card + other linked widget, is there a way to print all the card and their associated widget, each generated card+widget in a separate page ?
  • Being able to mail the above result would be also nice :slight_smile:

Thanks for your great work !

#2

Hi Sylvain, sorry no good answers here, just collecting what I found:

  • Disappearing color is due to using the bootstrap CSS library that Grist uses. It’s too opinionated, including on overriding all backgrounds for all elements. It’s hard not to use it because some components rely on it, but maybe it’s possible to use a reduced version…
  • If you just use the browser’s standard “Print page” function, you should get a printable version of the screen (with no toolbars, but all the widgets). Are you hoping for something different?
  • Allowing to customizing card label font is a reasonable feature request.
  • Do you mean the kind of Card view where you step through cards (like here Time-Sheets)? Or when printing a Card List, to print each card on its own page? Or when a Card is linked to a list (like here Lightweight CRM), to print each card on its own page? It feels like the different scenarios might involve different options.
  • Most browsers will let you print to PDF, or save as PDF from the print dialog, so that should be possible at least!
#3

Hello Dmitry,

Thanks for you answer.

  • Color : I will deal with Screenshot for the moment as this is something quite important for me
  • I’ve tried the Print Page but considering the lost of layout + color I will revert to screenshot. Since I’m dealing for the moment to 17 cards to be printed and sent twice a year, this is not a big job.
  • Thanks for the font, it will help to produce nicer basic-reports
  • Cards Printing → Yes like Times Sheets : I want to print the “screen” for each card (each card having a table-widget linked to the card)
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=> For all of this the solution will be to iterate through the cards and take Screenshot. I have then to share them (something more or less similar to the screenshot above).

Anyway grist is one of the best & productive & innovating tool I’ve seen.
Congratulations !

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