Printable view for universal/community calendar

[Paul Everitt]

Based on specs from Nat/Robert, have a print icon that gives a printable view of the current date on the calendar.

Nat, if you want a printable view for all combinations of calendar/list + day/week/month, that means 6 printable views.

[Balazs Ree (ree)]

Paul: any feedback on the preliminary pdfs I sent? Do we need to discuss before I move on with it?

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Over to Nat to decide about printing.

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

I agree that the print views shouldn’t hold up our first release and can wait until September if necessary. If we have time to work on some print views, but not all of them, then my preference would be to work on the month views first for both list and calendar settings. How does that sound?

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

Hi Balazs,

I think you’re on the right track with the mock-ups you sent around. Robert and I took a look and have a few comments. We printed out the examples you sent around and they seemed to not fit the page as well as we expected. You should make sure to optimize to 8.5”x11” paper size. Additionally, for the calendar month view we should optimize for a landscape view in order to maximize the space available on the page for the calendar. Right now, it seems like the calendar is shoved up to the top of the page on the month view. Robert, jump in if I left anything out.

Thanks,
Nat

[Balazs Ree (ree)]

Disabling the print button now.

I close this issue, a new ticket can be opened in a next iteration.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

By the way, given the change in schedule, you're cleared to use your budget on print if nothing else is scheduled.

--Paul

On Sep 17, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Balazs Ree wrote:

> Disabling the print button now.
>
> I close this issue, a new ticket can be opened in a next iteration.
>
> ** Changed in: karl3
> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>
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> Title:
> Printable view for universal/community calendar
>
> Status in KARL3:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Based on specs from Nat/Robert, have a print icon that gives a
> printable view of the current date on the calendar.
>
> Nat, if you want a printable view for all combinations of
> calendar/list + day/week/month, that means 6 printable views.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/karl3/+bug/823286/+subscriptions

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Let's re-open this as work for next week.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Moving to next week. Need extreme focus for this week.

[Balazs Ree (ree)]

On trunk, there is a version of the printing that is testable although I am sure we will want a few extra touches before finish.

However, it is cannot testable right now, because the print button is disabled.

For a preview I attach some prints that I made on my test community today.

[Balazs Ree (ree)]

To avoid that this stays "in progress" forever, I am closing this

to summarize the status:

- printing is working

- I expect changes after it's reviewed, but this is all I can do before further input

- to enable it to be reviewed, we need to enable the Print button (either manually on a staging, or by making a branch that just reveals this button)

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Balazs, can you make a screencast on this? That will avoid the challenge of temporarily enabling the print button on branch1.

--Paul

On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Balazs Ree wrote:

> To avoid that this stays "in progress" forever, I am closing this
>
> to summarize the status:
>
> - printing is working
>
> - I expect changes after it's reviewed, but this is all I can do before
> further input
>
> - to enable it to be reviewed, we need to enable the Print button
> (either manually on a staging, or by making a branch that just reveals
> this button)
>
>
> ** Changed in: karl3
> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823286
>
> Title:
> Printable view for universal/community calendar
>
> Status in KARL3:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Based on specs from Nat/Robert, have a print icon that gives a
> printable view of the current date on the calendar.
>
> Nat, if you want a printable view for all combinations of
> calendar/list + day/week/month, that means 6 printable views.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/karl3/+bug/823286/+subscriptions

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Balazs, I'll re-open this for testing next week. You can make a branch that shows the button, as you suggest.

[Balazs Ree (ree)]

There is a branch ree-calendar-printing where the button is enabled. This branch also contains recent IE fixes on the event rendering.
  (ree-ie-fix-calendar-event-rendering)

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

This looks good and is fine to roll out as is for now, but I do have 2 comments on things that would be nice to add if possible:

1) For the month view is it possible to have the print button pass along to the user's printer the paper orientation that should be used? If you print it as is, then you get a portrait view, which doesn't look very nice. You have to remember to change your printer settings to landscape if you want to get a nicely formatted calendar printout.

2) Is it possible to have the community name appear in the upper left hand corner of the page. Right now we're listing the the view (December 2011, Week of xxxx, etc.), which is good, but if I print our several calendars from different communities it would be good to be able to quickly identify which community the calendar originated from.

-Nat

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

Sorry, one more thing. Are we sure the print view is formatted for 8.5" X 11" paper? The week and day views bleed out onto 2 pages, where in the screenshots that were attached in previous comments, everything appears on one page.

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

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