Print preview missing in UCI

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Posted on by glouser

Hello, the legacy web has a print preview option which allows for printing of the current form in reasonably organized manner. It appears it has been removed from the UCI. Right clicking on the page and printing, only does a browser print and that too only 1 page.

What was the rationale for removing print preview? Can this be reverted by configuration? If not, what is the corresponding UCI equivalent as of Oct 2020 for printing the records via forms? Looking for solution that won't require a lot of rework.

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Ana Pereira on at

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RE: Print preview missing in UCI

Hi Glouser,

this feature request as being on discussion on several forums,

you can vote on ideias too as there are other customers who would like the same feature

https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=d9594b1e-55e5-e911-b3b9-0003ff68a4bb

https://community.dynamics.com/365/sales/f/dynamics-365-for-sales-forum/349531/unified-interface-where-has-print-preview-gone/935642

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Henry J. 5,237 on at

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RE: Print preview missing in UCI

Hello,

The Print Preview feature is indeed unavailable in Unified Interface.
As suggested by Ana please upvote the community ideas to have it considered for a future wave.

A lot of customers who were using the Print Preview feature have now adopted Word templates instead.
They render better for printing, can include custom formatting and be exported to PDF directly.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/using-word-templates-dynamics-365

For more advanced and complex use cases, you can also consider reports:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/model-driven-apps/add-reporting-to-app

Henry

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glouser 55 on at

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RE: Print preview missing in UCI

Morning, so our users currently use in the legacy web the print preview feature to print the form as it renders in dynamics. The form consists of subgrids which themselves use filtered views etc. So there's dynamic logic in the form, which then gets printed as-is thru the current print preview function.

With regards to using word templates in UCI to replace it , it appears you can't mimic the 'subgrids with filtered views' logic and behavior that's on the dynamics form, via the template that dynamics generates. You can only link to to a 1:N entity and it will render *all* the related records, though on the form there are filters applied on the subgrid via a particular view and what not.

So native templates are not sufficient. As we have to cutover to UCI and need printability of the form in production, we have created a programmatic workaround where we are calling the legacy print preview API via custom html button in UCI form, that we created and are calling it Print Preview . It is using the same call to "_forms/print/print.aspx" that the legacy web interface uses. This appears to be working.

So till microsoft provides a replacement for print preview in UCI, I would request this API not be touched.

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