Print (`tool_print`)

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Print is a visual layout designer for a section: you arrange a record's components onto a page and print a paginated, record-driven document. The arrangement is saved as a reusable template that every record of that section can fill.

What it's for

Some outputs are not tables. A catalogue card, an oral-history interview sheet or a bibliography index needs components placed on paper with real record data flowing down the page and breaking cleanly across sheets. Print is the tool that produces that: a positioned, paginated document, driven by the record in front of you and reusable for every other record of the section.

Concrete scenario: a numismatics catalogue. You open a Cecas (mints) record, press Print, and build a template — a three-cell header row (id, a centred title, location), a full-width public-description row, and a full-width bibliography table. You drop the bibliography relation into a cell and drop Página and Número onto it to add columns. You name the template "Catalogue card", save it, and print. Open another Cecas record and the same template fills with that record's data, repaginating as the description and the table grow or shrink.

When to use it

You need a printable, reusable, per-section report: a catalogue card, a study sheet, an index page, or a full transcription laid out on paper.
The content must flow and paginate — a long table or a long transcription that splits across pages while everything after it reflows.

When not to use it:

For a flat spreadsheet or CSV — use Export.
For subtitle or transcript-only surfaces — use Subtitles or the transcription print tool.

Where to find it

Print is a section toolbar button, next to Export. It opens a full-page document editor. In edit mode it fills the template with the record you are editing; in list mode it prints the records matching your current filter, respecting the list's limit and offset.

Using it, step by step

The layout is a top-to-bottom stack of rows. Each row is a horizontal grid of cells, and each cell holds one component (or free text, or nothing). Pages are generated by the content — you never add a page by hand.

Open a record (edit mode) or filter the section list (list mode), then press Print.
From the left palette — the section's component list — drag a component into a cell to fill it. Drop a component onto the page to append a new row, or onto a table cell to add that field as a column of the table.
For a relation, drill into it in the palette (a breadcrumb lets you step back) to reach the related fields you want to place.
Use the row controls to reorder rows (▲▼), add a cell (＋), or remove a row (✕). Use the insert bar to add a new row or a spacer.
Select a cell or row to open the inspector on the right: cell width, row gap, font, alignment, text colour, border, show-label, show-table-header, and a per-table column manager (reorder, width, rename or hide headers).
Name the template and press Guardar (Save), or Guardar como… to save a copy.
Preview with a real record, adjust zoom, then press Print to send it to your browser's print dialog.

Options

Control	What it does
Template picker + name	Load, name, save, save-as or delete a template. Templates are per user, with a public flag to share them.
Page defaults	Page size (A4 / A3 / Letter), orientation and margins.
Cell width	The fraction of the content column a cell occupies within its row.
Row gap / spacer	Vertical space after a row, or a dedicated whitespace row.
Style	Font family and size, alignment, text colour and border for the selected row or cell.
Show label / show table header	Whether a component's label, or a table's header row, is printed.
Column manager	For a table cell: reorder columns, set widths, rename or hide headers.

Tips and gotchas

Tip

Design the template once against a representative record, then let every other record fill it. Because the editor and the printed output share one layout engine, the paper matches the on-screen preview page for page.

Tip

A full-width table or a long transcription is simply a one-cell row. It splits across pages at its own row boundaries — tables repeat their header on each page — and everything after it reflows with no gaps.

Note

Long component_text_area values render in edit mode inside the layout so the full text prints (list mode truncates text areas). The printed page is white, so component values use fixed colours rather than the interface theme.

Export — flat tabular export; Print mirrors its per-user template/preset model.
Subtitles — the subtitle-specific surface.
Developer reference — the layout data model and internals.

Print (tool_print)