Printing entire Dashboard from BI 7.0

[sap_cohort]

Hi, I'm developing a custom dashboard that uses HTML DIV's and Java Script. I know the users are going to want to print out the entire Dashboard and have the output look as it does on the screen. The dashboard is optimized for 1280X1024 so I am imagining that the output would have to be scaled to fit onto letter or even legal.

Does anyone have any design guidlines on how to make the printout look like the actual dashboard screen? All of the BW and custom HTML elements would have to show. Do I have to do anything special? Embed everything into a group or anything like that?

Thanks, Ken Murray

[Former Member]

PDF within BI 7.0 does not maintain the layout while printing dashboards.

One option is to use Export to Excel function to download to Excel and use Excel formatting and print the dashboard.

Another option is to use standard browser print functions, you can use a print specific CSS file for doing this.

[Former Member]

What is a print specific CSS file and how would this help printing the dashboard?

[sap_cohort]

3rd party software such as snagit it recommended.

[sap_cohort]

In SAP Documentation they recommend a 3rd party software (such as snagit) to print out dashboards.