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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone know of a way to print a particular template from another template.

Say I have a template that shows a list of news articles: Title, Summary

and a template that shows the single entry: Title, Summary, Body.

I want to have a “print link” accompany the article on the first template that prints the single entry.

Regards, Kippi

hi Kippi,

You could use the {title_permalink} tag like this where news is your template group name and print is the template where you have the print version of your entry

<a href="http://{title_permalink=">print me</a>

This would generate a URL like this

<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/news/print/name_of_my_article">http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/news/print/name_of_my_article</a>

Does that help?

Hi, thanks for the reply but that would simply link to another template.

I was thinking more of an auto generated “Print” link.

Kippi,

EE doesn’t get in the way of how you wish to print your website pages. Take a look here for a generous list of techniques which should help

UPDATE!

I found a jquery solution that seems to work pretty much to what I need.

Posting a link below if anyone is interested.

jQuery-printPage-plugin

http://tinyurl.com/cp5tgur

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Thanks for the link:-)

I think Ill do it like you suggested but add some javascript to bring up the print dialogue box on page load.
I havn´t tested it crossbrowser yet though

function PrintWindow()
        {                     
           window.print();            
           CheckWindowState(); 
        }
        
        function CheckWindowState()
        {            
            if(document.readyState=="complete")
            {
                window.close();  
            }
            else
            {            
                setTimeout("CheckWindowState()", 2000)
            }
        }    
        
       PrintWindow();

Hey, great solution, Kippi! Thanks for posting it back here for the benefit of all. If there’s anything else we can do to help, feel free to let us know!