PRINT PRO - Now Available! - Updated

Thank mate, glad your on board! as i push updates you will see them in the normal spot “can upgrade” will be shown. I will include as much info as i can right there and if its major i will post on the forum and send you guys an email.

I am going to add another action “Preset Print”, It will allow Print Pro users to upload/share proven working HTML/Javascript/CSS templates on the plugin’s web page and I will continue to add them giving the user base a template share service via a list in the action menu and way to dynamically print from what could be a great library.

great idea! one hiccup I’ve noticed is the Bubble editor has started freezing up when I edit the workflow w/ Print Advanced action, preview, then come back to the editor. Have you seen this behavior? Hard refresh fixes it, but annoying.

I haven’t no but let me know if its not just a today thing and i will split the fields up or something and see if that helps. thanks for the info!

After reading some of the posts, as well as considering my own request (and needs), I started looking for other software that can create templates for me so that I can paste the code into your plug-in. The best one that I have found so far is GrapesJS, but there are probably plenty out there. With this said, it is still not very useful to me because it creates separate HTML and CSS code, and as far as I can tell, it needs to be combined. It then occurred to that I have now spent hours trying to find a way to deal with all of this code, etc. and I am not a coder/programmer, which is the reason that I chose BUBBLE in the first place. Can I hire you to integrate a WYSIWYG editor (like GrapeJS or TinyMCE), as well as the PDF assembly and saving (as a thing) functions to this??? I’m serious about this!!! I have found this lacking in the industry, but it would be an extremely powerful and useful tool for businesses. I just want to go to a drag-and-drop editor, create templates and save them, and then use them, assemble them, and fill them out with dynamic data, email them, print them, make them available for download, etc.

Please HELP ME!!! I’m BEGGING YOU!!! I will pay you for your work!!!

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I hear what your saying Chris and I understand your point with the want to point and click, There is a section to place the CSS in on its own I made it based on coders will code non coders will copy and paste templates. I think the fact that bubble is more known as a point an click platform there are actually a large amount of code friendly users here that need/want the customization sense coupled with the ability to build a start up in days or less, the plugin builder alone shows this is the case. I can say though that things will get better both sides of the fence once we have the ability to run server side code and its the main points that people touch on that will benefit the most. I would be more than happy to help in any way i can and rest assured your requests haven’t fallen on deaf ears i have been actively building on what is already there. maybe the solution is to build a tool that will allow you to build your template in bubble, load that page once and have the tool parse the code into your template, then simply delete the page and the plugin no has the code? best of both worlds.

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Thanks for your quick response. I did not see that you can paste the CSS separately, so I’ll check that out. The last thing that is unclear is how images are dealt with and where they get saved. Sorry for my ignorance. I’ll try it out and see if it works with images. maybe they make their way into the code somehow. Again, not a programmer. lol

to add an image in html you just drop in this:

<img src="https:*****" height="42" width="42">

Replace the stars with a say dosearchfor your image’s url. leave the https: there before it too.

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So the image resides on the web somewhere and you are just bringing it into the document from the web each time. If I put it in my database, how do I find the URL? (feeling super ignorant at this point)

no, each image you have in you database has a url and all the examples you have seen have been based on app data.except one or two… its simply a case of dynamically composing the image then hit more… like so:

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I feel like I am on the brink of a work-around using the Rich Text editor plug-in to create templates. I’ll let you know if I work it out. :slight_smile:

that is fully do-able and a smart way out, well done. just so you know, this is happening…

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Sweet - looking forward to it. I have an idea of how to use Tiny for templates. I could actually do a lot of what I want if I can just make a stand-alone TINYMCE plugin that let’s you access/save the HTML/CSS and image URL’s. Create a thing that has fields for HTML, CSS, and files (for images), and then bring them in as dynamic text into your PRINT PRO plugin in the appropriate areas when you configure it for a particular use. This might work well, and allow advanced users to also manually edit the code directly from the database interface if they wish.

I’ve only been messing around with Bubble since Friday, but I am getting increasingly excited about it, the more I become useful with it.

Off to a good start:

Pasted this into an HTML element and got the editor in my App!!! Lot’s more information here: The Most Advanced WYSIWYG Editor | Trusted Rich Text Editor | TinyMCE

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im sorry to say though you will only run into problems trying to embed it on the page… the first is when anything changes inside the html element the whole block of code will re run.

Yeah, it’s not so useful this way because it is not treated as an input. Anyway, I am now back to the Rich Text Input, but when I create a button to print, using your plug-in, it is printing the whole page instead of the “content of an element”. Any ideas what I am doing wrong???

did you give the element an id and use the action print element content? if you fairly new to bubble you might not be aware that if you go to the settings tab on the left of your app, then general you will see the expose the option to add an ID attribute. check that box then give the element an id (bottom of the property editor when you are editing it) then just give that same ID to the action… that’s how it references it. at the same time add this: no-print in the id box of any element inside the element your going to print if you want them to stay out of the document.

Well, I 'm getting there. It seems you can print right from the Rich Text Editor, but if I save the content from the editor and display it in another text box on the page, I can print it from there. The ID attribute was what was missing, so that part is answered. I just need to keep playing with it to get what I want. Thanks for your help and support.

oh that will be awesome! you’re opening up a world of use cases here…I predict the combo of enhanced PrintPro + TinyMCE will top the Bubble plugin charts within 2 months of release!

You have no idea how long I have been trying to do this with various open source CRM’s and ERP’s and other platforms like process maker. I even put out a job listing a while ago on UPWORK to integrate TinyMCE into one of the platforms as a module, and couldn’t get anyone to understand the importance/usefulness of it.

Just this weekend I have build an entire CRM from scratch (matching the functionality of the subscription that I am currently paying for), and started to learn Bubble in the process. I am very optimistic about what I will be able to create going forward, once I really get my head around all of the integrations. I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with, and also helping with more suggestions.

@chris_cidy I’m new w/ TinyMCE. Curious how you see integrating this w/ Print Pro plugin. As far as I can see, there’s no way to download the HTML & CSS from the TinyMCE editor? I must be missing something obvious…also don’t see a way to create a table block other than manually in TMCE