Include sample data when previewing print templates
When working with Print Templates within Sierra there is an option to preview them to test out their layout. However, this preview has no access to any data, so in many if not most cases the preview winds up looking like a nearly empty screen. For example if you have a due slip template set to provide a column header listing title and barcode before listing out that information from each item that was checked out, the preview would show those two words (as they are static text) and nothing else.
That doesn't help to provide a sense of spacing or layout or really set expectations on what a true print out will look like. So it would be nice if there were a way to provide sample data...just lorem ipsum text perhaps for a single record, in order to populate a true preview.
Jeremy Goldstein
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Jeremy Goldstein
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Oh yeah template or assign a particular record for that purpose...whatever's easiest.
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Alison Pruntel
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This would be very helpful. Just seeing "null" in all the areas where data would normally populate makes it hard to see what something is going to look like w/out testing with a real print job (wasting time, paper, etc.).
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Lloyd Chittenden
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Maybe it could pull data from a particular template, then you could make sure that template had data in a useful format for that purpose.