Document Printouts

A print button next to the open document that produces a clean A4 printout or PDF.

Printing an invoice, order or delivery note the way your country and your company expect is one of the most common ERP.net jobs. Operator builds it as a small panel that sits beside the document you already have open.

What you get

• A narrow panel on the right of the document form, showing the document's number, date and partner.
• One button — for example Print / PDF.
• Pressing it opens the normal print dialog with the full A4 layout, where you print or save as PDF.
• No searching, no picking from a list: the panel prints the document that is on the screen.

Example

A finance clerk opens invoice 0000012559, presses Печат / PDF in the side panel, and gets the A4 invoice with supplier and recipient details, lines, tax breakdown, total, the amount in words and the signature lines — ready to print or save.

How to ask for one

Say it plainly, in your language:

make me an invoice printout that follows Bulgarian law

I need a print form for delivery notes with our logo and the driver's signature line

Useful things to mention:

• Which document — invoices, sales orders, delivery notes, protocols, offers.
• Which rules — the country or standard the layout must satisfy.
• What must appear — logo, bank details, notes, extra signature lines, terms text.
• Language of the printed document, if it differs from the interface language.

Operator asks about anything it still needs, builds the app, and shows it to you.

Test it on a real document

While you are still designing, the preview has a record button above it. It appears once the app is set up as a side panel on a record — that is exactly the kind of app that is opened on a document. Pick the document type (for example sales orders) and search for a document by name or number — or paste its id. The preview then behaves exactly as if the app had been opened on that document in the Web Client, so you see the real figures instead of the "nothing to print" message.

The chosen document is kept with the app, separately for each instance, so it is still there the next time you open the app — on this or any other computer. Clear record puts the preview back to the empty state, which is useful for checking what people see when no document is open.

What to check before approving

• The figures come straight from the document — currency, tax rates and totals are never assumed.
• Every requisite your accountants expect is present.
• The page breaks look right on a long document: print a two-page invoice once before rolling it out.

Putting it next to the document

When the printout is ready, Operator already fills in its place — a side panel on that document type — on the app's Deploy tab. Nothing reaches your instance until you press Deploy there; until then you can change or remove the entry. Once deployed, everyone in the instance sees the print button while working on those documents, and each person prints only the documents they are allowed to see.

Good to know

• The panel deliberately shows no preview — the preview is the print dialog itself, which is faster and prints exactly what you see.
• A printout app can be changed at any time: ask for a new field, a different wording or another layout, and the next version replaces the old one wherever it is placed.
• If you open the app outside a document form, it simply says there is nothing to print.