Printing

!!!FileMaker 16
Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers, so the best option is printing a screenshot of the calendar view. It is possible, however, to automate saving these screenshots to pdf; check out this post for more info: [[https://www.seedcode.com/printing-web-viewers-filemaker-16/ | Printing Web Viewers in FileMaker 16]]. Otherwise, you can keep a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.

Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers, so you'll either need to print a screenshot of the calendar view or have a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.

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Unfortunately, FileMaker 16 does not support printing web viewers anymore, so you'll either need to print a screenshot of the calendar view or have a system running FileMaker 15 to print the web viewer directly.

DayBack user Robert Parker told us about a really cool alternative method for printing your DayBack calendar view. It uses the "copy from Preview Mode" FileMaker trick, but with a couple of twists. Read about it and add your comment on our [[https://www.seedcode.com/support/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4127&p=11210#p11210|forum]].

DayBack user Robert Parker told us about a really cool alternative method for printing your DayBack calendar view. It uses the "copy from Preview Mode" FileMaker trick, but with a couple of twists. [[https://www.seedcode.com/support/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4127&p=11210#p11210|Read more...]]

The list view won't automatically "keep up" with the day, week, and month views so you'll need to build the found set to be printed by hand, or write scripts to find just the events you want to print.

-> '''2.''' On this new layout click on the web viewer and remove the object anchors in the Inspector's position tab (under "autosizing").

-> '''3.''' Make the webviewer as large or as small as you want to fill your page. For example, a webviewer 570 tall by 730 wide fills an 8.5 x 11 horizontal page nicely at 100% (depending on your page margins). Note that you can remove the "Required objects" off screen to the left of the calendar for this simple printed version.

-> '''4.''' That's it. Now print from this layout--either by hand or with a script--and you'll be all set.

The calendar will print whatever is on screen so the only challenge with printing is to get the screen to fit on a sheet of paper. You'll likely want to hide the calendar's [[sidebar]] and set FileMaker's page set up to horizontal. Then change the scale to 60%.

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!! How can I change the way then calendar prints?

We print calendar screens using the layout "Calendar - no Side Menu". So you can make some changes there, but remember that this is also the layout you use in browse mode when you hide the calendar's side bar, so you probably won't want to make radical changes here.

If you do want a print layout that is radically different from the screen version, consider duplicating the "Calendar - no Side Menu" layout and making a version of it just for printing (adjust the script "Print Calendar Screen" to use your new layout instead of  "Calendar - no Side Menu").

Using such a custom print list layout is really the only way to print ''all'' the information about an event. The calendar's grid-based screens are just too constrained to print more than a small part of an event, or a small number of the events for a day.

Remember that you can also print the Event List layout if you want to see more records than can show up on a month view (for example). Sorting this layout by Start Date, Resource, or Status reveals one of the subsummary parts which can make the layout a bit easier to read. Here again you might consider duplicating this layout and using it as the basis for your own layout used only for printing.

If you do want a print layout that is radically different from the screen version, consider duplicating the "Calendar - no Side Menu" layout and making a version of it just for printing (adjust the script "Print Screen" to use your new layout instead of  "Calendar - no Side Menu").

Remember that you can also print the Event List layout if you want to see more records than can show up on a month view (for example). Sorting this layout by Date reveals on of the subsummary parts which can make the layout a bit easier to read. Here again you might consider duplicating this layout and using it as the basis for your own layout used only for printing.

We print most calendar screens using the layout "Calendar - no Side Menu". So you can make some changes there, but remember that this is also the layout you use in browse mode when you hide the calendar's side bar, so you probably won't want to make radical changes here.