Ability to print full form from Form Builder

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Orbeon Forms is an open source web forms solution. It includes an XForms engine, the Form Builder web-based form editor, and the Form Runner runtime.

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Ability to print full form from Form Builder #4598

Open ebruchez opened 4 years ago

ebruchez commented 4 years ago

The idea would be to print the form with all fields visible so it can be checked and printed, and possibly even filled out on paper.

visibility conditions must be removed
checkboxes /radio buttons must be deselected
dropdowns must be converted to radio buttons
what else?

Other than that, it would be the same as running the form in new PDF mode, wouldn't it?

+1 from customer

ebruchez commented 4 years ago

When producing the PDF page from Form Runner, we rely on the fact that the form definition is published. So we would need the ability to pass a form definition that is not published.

ebruchez commented 4 years ago

See also #4573. This would cover two scenarios:

filling on paper (or in PDF)
producing a report with all fields, and some metadata (such as field names, etc.)

ebruchez commented 1 year ago

With #4189, released with 2021.1, we can test a form in Form Builder that only hides controls/containers that are always hidden, and show the others. So it's a good step towards this.