Comments on: Field Background Color Fill

By: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:57:41 +0000

Reversing the script in the prePrint event will definitely work - give that a go if you still want to remove the colour.

By: Mark J

Mark J — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:32:46 +0000

Thanks John,

I appreciate your efforts and time with trying to help me solve this. We will have to just live with the colors being printed until i can come up with something else but if you think of anything else i would appreciate more input. thanks again.

By: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:29:45 +0000

Mark,

Sorry, I just tried out that script and also referenced the LC Designer Reference document and it looks like a fill can’t be given a relevant property - sorry!

The script I gave earlier only removed the border’s edge (I assumed it applied to all of the border’s child objects and therefore the edge and the fill would not be printed).

John.

By: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:18:04 +0000

No worries Mark, try this:

yourFieldName.ui.oneOfChild.border.relevant = “-print”;

Let me know if that doesn’t work.

By: Mark J

Mark J — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:43:01 +0000

thanks for the reply John. I have been messing around with your first idea and i cant seem to figure out how to apply the relevant “-print” to the fill color and not the object, granted I’m not the most experienced coder but I’ll continue to work on this and research using your second suggestion. I appreciate your help but if you can think of anything else i would appreciate some more input.

thanks again,

By: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:39:25 +0000

You can attack this is two ways (I think!):

1) Set the “relevant” property on the border to “-print” (this will keep it visible on the screen but won’t print it….essentially like the “Visible (Screen Only)” option on the object itself). Please see Stefan’s article on version specific implementations first though (http://forms.stefcameron.com/2007/09/27/presence-vs-relevance/. However, I think this will actually remove the whole border so it might look a little odd when printing.

2) You could try to reverse the script in the “prePrint” event, then execute it again in the “postPrint” event.

John.

By: Mark J

Mark J — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:19:16 +0000

This is a great tutorial, i was just trying to figure out how to do this.

Is there a way to keep the fields colored on the screen but when the document is printed via a print button, remove the coloring so it doesn’t show on the printed document?

thanks again, I’m going to implement this today, no more questions on which field to fill in. I’ve found it difficult to educate everyone to use the high light fields button.

Mark J