This action produces a printout of one or more list items, which then is emailed or saved in a document library or as attachment.
This action requires full Ultimate Forms or at least Ultimate Forms: Print component to be installed and activated within the site collection. If you plan for the action to be used by multiple users and/no execute it from the timer, make sure that the print template is marked as shared with all or specific users, otherwise the template won't be found by the action.
- Site – select a site from the current site collection. Use runtime value to specify site URL only known at run time.
- List – select a list from the selected site. Use runtime value to specify list title only known at run time.
- Items – enter at least one filter value for selecting target list items for applying the action. To select a single item use the ID column.
- Template – select one of the existing print templates. You have to create at least one print template for the list prior to configuring this action.
- Format – produce the printout in HTML, PDF, Word or Excel format
- Print target – specify what to do with the printout
- Email – send via email
- DocuSign: request signatures via email - Send an email to get your print document template signed. See: Print List items using DocuSign
- Document library – save to the selected document library
- Attachment – add as attachment to current item
- Copy attachments - this option will attach the document or item attachments when Print target is email, or embed PDF attachments on other targets, if export to PDF is chosen.
- To, Cc, Bcc, From – specify column containing users or addresses (when emailing)
- Subject – specify email subject
- Filename – specify file name when printout is saved
- Document library – specify document library to save the printout to. You can also provide run-time value.
- Folder URL – specify folder URL within the document library (optional)
- Allow overwrite - specify whether to overwrite the printed file in document library / attachment, if it already exists. When printing to a document library with versioning set, this option will create a new version of the file.
Note: There is a new feature with the print template that incorporates a Word template to format the printing of a word document. When you use that print template that is configured for using a word template your print action with be able to generate that word document for the action config.
Set this up as a manual action and your new print to word format will email you the formatted word document.
To learn more about this Print > Word Template setup see Setting up a Word Template