Method for direct printing in WEB report browser

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for achieving a direct printing in a WEB report browser. The method comprises the following steps that 1 a report is designed; 2 a print format is saved; 3 report data are browsed; 4 a report printed page is called; 5 the print format of the report is obtained; 6 a print zone is initialized; 7 a page frame of the report is established; 8 a home page of the report is established; 9 a continued page of the report is established; 10 the report is printed. The method can achieve a complex arrangement of a page header and a page footer of the report and achieve a precise paging, the pressure of a server is highly lowered, no installation of additional component software is required, and the efficiency is high.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the field of printing, in particular to a method for direct printing in a WEB report browser. Background technique [0002] Common architectures of enterprise information systems are divided into C / S (client / server) architecture and B / S (browser / server) architecture. In the B / S architecture, because end users use browsers to access information systems, there is no need to install and maintain client software, so it has gradually become the preferred architecture for enterprise information systems. [0003] At present, there are many WEB report printing schemes, each with its own characteristics and deficiencies. [0004] Print directly using the browser's menu print function. This is the simplest WEB report printing solution, just click the print menu on the page, no need to write code. However, this solution has many problems and is difficult to meet user needs. For example: pages cannot be accurately divided, there is a r...

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Problems solved by technology

Applet is a JAVA small application program running on the browser. The cost of Applet is huge. Printing in this way, pagination or precise printing can be realized, but it has the following disadvantages: 1) The cost of installing Applet is very high, and you need to download more than a dozen M files (including Applet and its running support environment JRE) and install

2) When printing the report, it is necessary to retrieve the report data from the server again, which is inefficient

[0010] 1) It is difficult to achieve precise paging and header and footer settings using the browser's built-in printing function

[0011] 2) Non-browser printing methods are expensive and inefficient

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