using the Print Steps action is very useful when one needs to print steps in an app (or save them as PDF). this action has a useful feature that eliminates the need to select multiple steps at once, by placing all the steps that need to be printed in a group.
instead of selecting individual steps to print:
one can simply place all the Steps in a group, and select that when printing the app:
hope this will save folks some time!!
Hello! gio
This function is very good.
How do you determine the order of the steps to be printed?
When printing to PDF, it does not print in the order I think.
hello @Akito, great to hear you found this useful!! you can change the order of the steps you’d like to print either by changing 1) the order of the actions or 2) the order of the Steps in the App.
can you attempt this and let me know if you’re experiencing the same issue??
Thank you @gio.
I managed to get it right, but I don’t understand what 1) the order of the actions means, so please let me know.
great to hear @Akito!!
Actions fire in Tulip depending on the order in which they are on the Trigger.
so in this example, the message First Action would appear first, followed by Second Action:
whereas in this Trigger, the message Second Action would appear first, followed by First Action:
does that make sense?? let me know!!
Thank you @gio!
I understood thanks to your explanation.
How can i add sequence number while print multiple steps ?
hello @nitingoel82, you could add a Variable > App Info > Step Name that will display the Step Name (which you can name sequentially) when you print the Steps:
would this help in what you’re trying to achieve??
Testing this in the browser using Dev mode doesn’t seem to work but it works well in the player.
I’ve been messing around with feature this and found when adding the Variable “App Info”, “Step Name” it will only print the “Step Name” of the page that initiated the print trigger.
I tried this function, but it creates the last page twice everytime. Is there some settings wrong or what am I missing?
Hello @koncvaker ,
Are you using the same variables in both of your steps? If yes, this is the reason.
To explain further : A variable is defined for your whole app, not for a single step. If you use the same variable “Step name” in both steps, the printed value of “Step name” will be the latest value. It means that each of your step must have separated (unique) variables in order to print multiple pages.
KR,
Kevin
Hello,
I created a document of measurements for a specific production item that the users could print out at the end of the quality process. The pages have same variables on the header (product name, product number etc.), but completely different variables are in the pages (two page document is created, first two stages of quality check on one page the last stage on the second page.) If I print this step group out, containing the two pages the second page is duplicated, so it wants to print three pages in the end.
This is because the same variables are used in the header of the page? Because I don’t understand how is this the intended behaviour, can you explain it a bit further please!
Thanks,
Konrad
Hello,
Your case is indeed different from what I mentioned.
I tried to duplicate your issue but it worked fine on my end.
We will need more details/printscreens to help you on this matter.
KR,
Kevin
