First, I have to say that it’s great to be back in the world of consulting. I spent the last year and a half in instructor mode and while I learned all about SharePoint 2010, I wasn’t able to apply any of this knowledge to real-world problems as often as I would have liked. Well, on with the post…
I’ve had to spent the last few hours of my life learning something new about InfoPath 2010. I had a customer asking how to print a form that had multiple views and I just hadn’t ever done it myself. It’s ridiculously easy though. After coming across this article on office.com and familiarizing myself with the client’s form and SharePoint site, I had fixed all of their form issues.
It’s usually helpful to know what the specific issues were and how they were fixed, so here’s that list for you.
- When printing multiple views, the views were not being properly separated by a page break.
- I created a new view that I named "Print." I copied the content from each of the other views to this new "Print" view and inserted the page breaks where appropriate.
- CTRL+A is the fastest way to "Select All" content within a view
- CTRL+C is the fastest way to "Copy"
- CTRL+V is the fastest way to "Paste"
- When printed, multi-line textbox fields were not automatically expanded, meaning that you couldn’t see all of the data on a printed copy of the form.
- Within the "Print" view: in the properties of each multi-line textbox, click the "Align" button to set the "Height" property to "auto."
- Doing this in the "Print" view allows these fields to display properly while a user is filling out the form, but expands them automatically when the form is printed.
- When printed, the right margin extended out too far and caused the form to be cut off.
- Within the "Print" view, simply adjust the margins of the page in the "Page Setup" dialog that’s available from the "Page Design" tab of the ribbon.
- That’s it. Making some simple changes to the form helped solve a client’s issue.