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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Blueworks Live
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 23, 2017

To make / Enable Printing from a Documentation view more effective for viewers

Printing from a Documentation view is not effective (Viewers are not able to do Word exports so this is the only option)
ocumentation view to be able to be printed:
See all the fields that are complete
Not include empty meta-data fileds

Documentation View does not allow for effective printing:
- When the documentation view is used (with 'show all values' ) it includes meta-data fields even where there is no content.
- To highlight all and copy and paste to Word it is not legible
- To print to a specific printer only produces the first page
- To save as 'cute pdf' it only saves the first page (see examples worksheet)

Idea priority Medium
RFE ID 109398
RFE URL
RFE Product Blueworks Live
  • Guest
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    Jun 21, 2019

    Thanks for your request, Srividhya! We would like to improve the documentation Print function at some point in the future, but at this time it is not planned. When that changes, we will update this RFE with more detail..

  • Guest
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    Jun 20, 2019

  • Guest
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    Oct 26, 2017

    HI Margaret, as mentioned in the mail sent on 26/10/2017 , updating the RFE.
    During our monthly call , you mentioned that “ Will work on making word export available for viewers & Will fix the print option at a later stage “

    However , we feel that providing word export option to viewers may have the following risk.
    1. They can export as word ( editable) and save it locally.
    2. Annotate them ( with any updates) and start using it for their Business &
    3. They will not take steps to update BWL map.

    So we ask you NOT to proceed with providing word export option to viewers , instead can work on enhancing pdf export option to have complete details like word export . So the viewers can get the same in “Read only / Non editable” format.
    This will eliminate the risk of updating and saving locally with out amending BWL map.

  • Guest
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    Aug 23, 2017

    Attachment (Description): incomplete word export ( print)

  • Guest
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    Aug 23, 2017

    Attachment (Description): meta data field which are incomplete can be excluded from printing

  • Guest
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    Aug 23, 2017

    Attachment (Description): Cute pdf with only 1st page info populated. we want the entire content to be available for the user