GeoExtPrintForm

A print widget that use the GeoExt print components to control print parameters sent to the MapFishPrint service. Their values come from the print service capabilities.

It basically mimics the following GeoExt example :

http://dev.geoext.org/trunk/geoext/examples/print-form.html

XML Sample

Sample configuration.

<geoextprintform>
  <name>W_GeoExtPrintForm</name>
  <options>
    <servicename>S_MapFishPrint</servicename>
    <defaultResolution>150</defaultResolution>
    <noRotationField>true</noRotationField>
  </options>
</geoextprintform>

How to ‘draw’ the widget

This widget must be drawn using the drawWidgets method : drawWidget / drawWidgets

Mandatory Options

servicename:(String) The name of the MapFishService to use with this widget. The service capabilities will be used to populate the values of the fields of this widget (layout, resolution, scale, etc.)

Optional Options

defaultMapTitle:  

(String) Defaults to “” (empty string). Sets the default mapTitle value. This option is ignored if the ‘noMapTitleField’ option is set to true.

defaultComment:

(String) Defaults to “” (empty string). Sets the default comment value. This option is ignored if the ‘noCommentField’ option is set to true.

defaultLayout:

(String) Defaults to the first layout name from the MapFishPrint service capabilities if not set. Sets the default layout name if its matches one of the capabilities layouts.

defaultResolution:  

(Integer) Defaults to first resolution value from the MapFishPrint service capabilities if not set. Sets the default resolution value if its matches one of the capabilities resolutions.

ieWindowOpen:

(Boolean) Defaults to false. Only used when using an Internet Explorer browser. If set to true, instead of opening the PDF inside the same page, it’s opened in a new window. Be sure to allow popups from the page.

legend:

(Boolean) Defaults to false. Whether to include a legend in the generated pdf or not. Only WMS layers are included in it.

Note

The MapFishPrint service requires to be setup accordingly to actually include a legend, see http://www.mapfish.org/doc/print/configuration.html#legends-block

mapTitleFieldLabel:  

(String) Overrides the default map title field label value. This option supports i18n (internationalization).

mapTitleMaxLength:  

(Integer) Restruct the number of characters that can be entered for the map title field.

noMapTitleField:  

(Boolean) Defaults to false. If set to true, the ‘mapTitle’ form field won’t be rendered and the default value of this field becomes ‘Printing Demo’.

noCommentField:

(Boolean) Defaults to false. If set to true, the ‘comment’ form field won’t be rendered.

noLayoutField:

(Boolean) Defaults to false. If set to true, the ‘layout’ form field won’t be rendered.

noResolutionField:  

(Boolean) Defaults to false. If set to true, the ‘resolution’ form field won’t be rendered.

noRotationField:  

(Boolean) Defaults to false. If set to true, the ‘rotation’ form field won’t be rendered.

noScaleField:

(Boolean) Defaults to false. If set to true, the ‘scale’ form field won’t be rendered.

title:

(String) Defaults to the widget ‘i18n_panel_title’ traduction string. Sets the widget panel title. This option supports i18n (internationalization).

Service Options

vendor:

(String) Layers created from a wms service with this option set to mapserver (case insentive) will make sure the GetMap requested by the print service are set according to the dpi currently set, which means if 300 dpi is set, then the images generated in the pdf document will be made in 300 dpi instead of 72.

Note

This feature is supported in MapServer >= 5.6.

Service Type

mapfishprint

Widget Action

read