nelsonm - 2:09 pm on Jul 15, 2012 (gmt 0)

Hi Dijkgraaf,

Other than the single print button already on the work order add/edit entry form that when clicked pops up the browsers print dialog, the user has two screens where they could (once its programmed) mark or check each work order they'd like to print. One is the calendar dispatch board page and the other is the work order list grid page.

In any case, it sounds like what your saying is that instead of stacking each work order into one structure or variable or hidden div with page breaks in between each, you think it would be simpler to as you say "have a back-end report generator" function that formats and prints each selected work order directly to the printer one at a time automatically eliminating the need to manage page breaks.

For now, lets stay with my use of the static hidden div container to generate the printable work order. So how do you get javascript/jquery in the "report generator" function to send each work order to the default printer directly without having the browser's print dialog popup? I'm currently using firefox as the browser.

thanks.