Angular Daily Cash Report missing print capability

[Terran McCanna]

EG 3.10 Angularized Daily Cash Report

It is no longer possible to use the browser's print function to print the Daily Cash Report (it gives a blank scren).

Print Full Grid does work to print the grid portion, but it leaves off the summary portion at the top of the page.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Additional information - the libraries inform me that their auditors need to have the dates on the print out. There isn't a date column, so printing full grid / downloading CSV doesn't include the dates (and of course, doesn't include the summary info on top).

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

And more info - each row is a summary, so a date column wouldn't work anyway. It looks like it will need a print template developed to make this work.

[Stephanie Leary (stephanieleary)]

Terran, until we can fix printing in a more general way, could the folks who need to print the cash report toggle a user stylesheet? This would be a quick and dirty way to let the print the screen they need:

@media print {
 body {
  display: block !important;
 }
}

But you wouldn't want to leave that on all the time; it would hijack the more specialized printing features, like receipts.

[Dan Briem (dbriem)]

Branch for testing: https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/dbriem/lp2003090_print_cash_reports

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Thanks so much, Dan! I've tested this and it works great and we're putting it on our production server.

However, I'm holding off on signing off because I wonder if it would be better for the Evergreen product if this used a Print Template instead of having the print layout controlled by the Angular code. Adding needsdiscussion tag for more input.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

I agree that using the print templates would be a good idea rather than hard-coding the template.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

See larger discussion about printing Angular pages: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1949999

[Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u)]

Confirmed printing via the browser still give a blank screen in 3.11

[Ruth Frasur Davis (redavis)]

Confirming that this a major issue for some our libraries.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Jennifer & Ruth - Dan's branch in comment 4 is a viable workaround until further development is done.

[Michele Morgan (mmorgan)]

I've taken the liberty of rebasing Dan's patch, branch is here:

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/mmorgan/lp2003090_rebase

user/mmorgan/lp2003090_rebase

Also noting that we have been using this workaround in production for some time.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

We've also been using Dan's workaround in production for over a year. Are there any objects to committing this to main until there is a viable replacement for the functionality?

[Michele Morgan (mmorgan)]

No objection from me to committing this until there is a viable replacement! I've re-added the pullrequest tag.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Merged as far back as rel_3_11