Forms Usage for Printing

Background

A significant use case for printing forms revolves around a user printing a form with the current data for a record. During the June XHTML-Printing meeting we spent some time discussing how forms information and the user's data could be printed together, but did not reach any conclusions. The following scenario diagram illustrates the sequence of events for this use case

Printing a form from a browser

The user interacts with a browser on a mobile device to access a form presented by a server on the network (lines 1 and 2). The user enters data into the form (line 3) and then instructs the browser to print it (line 4). The Browser constructs a document, which is the original form with the user's date integrated into it (line 5) and then sends the document to the printer (line 6). The user can then submit the form to the server for processing (lines 7 and 8).

Conclusions

  1. The user must be interacting with the browser to interact with a form
  2. The browser must implement the integration of user data and the form when printing a representation of the form.
Jim Bigelow
Last modified: Wed Aug 21 12:40:27 MDT 2002