Print Several ASP.NET pages

J

Jay

I have an application that uses the DataGrid to list several employees. You click on a button associated with an employee to display a report on one employee in a popup window. From that report you can print it. The report is semi-generated -- basically filling in some fields from a database. The report is fairly complicated, involving several tables and datagrids.

I have the need to print the reports for several employees all at once, rather than having to display each employee's report one at a time. The report itself is an aspx page, say report.aspx. Is there anyway I can fill in report.aspx for each employee, saving each report in one object that can then be printed. You get the idea.

Thanks. Jay
 
N

Nicole Calinoiu

Jay,

Browsers don't allow much control over printing. Unless you're willing to
use an ActiveX control or other client-side component to facilitate batch
printing, your only real option for single-interaction printing of this type
of batch is to use a frameset. This frameset would have one frame per
employee, with each frame's source being your report.aspx page. For
example, you might end up with the following HTML for a given batch:

<html>
<head></head>
<frameset rows="*,*,*">
<frame src="report.aspx?EmployeeID=1">
<frame src="report.aspx?EmployeeID=2">
<frame src="report.aspx?EmployeeID=3">
</frameset>
</html>

If the above is rendered in an aspx page (say, ReportBatch.aspx), you could
use a repeater to generate the frame elements.

HTH,
Nicole


I have an application that uses the DataGrid to list several employees.
You click on a button associated with an employee to display a report on one
employee in a popup window. From that report you can print it. The report
is semi-generated -- basically filling in some fields from a database. The
report is fairly complicated, involving several tables and datagrids.

I have the need to print the reports for several employees all at once,
rather than having to display each employee's report one at a time. The
report itself is an aspx page, say report.aspx. Is there anyway I can fill
in report.aspx for each employee, saving each report in one object that can
then be printed. You get the idea.

Thanks. Jay
 
J

Jay

Nicole,

That's not a bad idea!! I think it should work.

Thanks. Jay
"Nicole Calinoiu" <ngcalinoiu REMOVETHIS AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message Jay,

Browsers don't allow much control over printing. Unless you're willing to
use an ActiveX control or other client-side component to facilitate batch
printing, your only real option for single-interaction printing of this type
of batch is to use a frameset. This frameset would have one frame per
employee, with each frame's source being your report.aspx page. For
example, you might end up with the following HTML for a given batch:

<html>
<head></head>
<frameset rows="*,*,*">
<frame src="report.aspx?EmployeeID=1">
<frame src="report.aspx?EmployeeID=2">
<frame src="report.aspx?EmployeeID=3">
</frameset>
</html>

If the above is rendered in an aspx page (say, ReportBatch.aspx), you could
use a repeater to generate the frame elements.

HTH,
Nicole


I have an application that uses the DataGrid to list several employees.
You click on a button associated with an employee to display a report on one
employee in a popup window. From that report you can print it. The report
is semi-generated -- basically filling in some fields from a database. The
report is fairly complicated, involving several tables and datagrids.

I have the need to print the reports for several employees all at once,
rather than having to display each employee's report one at a time. The
report itself is an aspx page, say report.aspx. Is there anyway I can fill
in report.aspx for each employee, saving each report in one object that can
then be printed. You get the idea.

Thanks. Jay
 

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