Contacts: More Printing options

Eww. For sure! Those pictures ARE small. ( I noticed when I've printed out contacts in the past, I've been using groups without pictures)
and I agree about the black bars too- frequently a waste of ink.

Sigh; REAL configurability is actually too complicated to expect; there are SO many other things that would be better to have fixed. It would be fun if we could just construct a web page with tags, and print that, but the web page composer appears to be way too limited for that

[contacts section]
This is my list of friends!
   [contact record]
      <bold> [firstname] </bold> [phonenumber] < br >
   [contact record end]
[contacts end]

This is my list of friends!
GEORGE 123-4567
FRED 321-7654
SUZIE 999-3333
...

I'd try reprocessing the "normal" stuff, but the javascript is inpenetrable.

Web apps in general are not great printing platforms, you have one more level of abstraction between the service and the printer - the browser. We do our best, and the current contacts printing take the approach of not even trying to print through the browser at all but rather renders a pdf file on our servers and then downloads that because of some frustrations we were having with printing consistently across browsers, but this was a whole separate project and is not where we are focused, and did not leverage any of our other browser oriented code. In general I'd say you are better off using a desktop contacts application for printing, export your contacts from AirSet as a vcard or csv file and then import into a desktop app and print. In general our philosophy is that we are focused on "printing to the web" i.e. we think the future is less about paper and more about getting the data accessible everywhere electronically. With that said, we try to make it easy for you to get your data out of AirSet so you can do what you want with it. You can export contacts to either csv or vcard format. There are companies who just focus on printing, here's a link to one I found on the web: http://www.allprosoftware.com/am/

I understand your perspective; "there be dragons here", and not as much obvious benefit.

That said, when I suggested detailed tags for the web page composer, it wasn't really about printing, it was about some silly power user wanting more control of his data display.

ALSO, I want to plead and beg (Again) that you will find a way to get images accessible via export, preferably with an export directly to an Outlook contact that understands them, but other options like UUEncoded in the csv, or a URL in the CSV, might possibly be helpful. Of course, mostly only helpful if there's a way to push the answers back in, say, after a user clobbered things and I need to restore.

I believe there are one or two other contact fields that are not exportable, and a number that are not importable.

I like pictures. Nothing like a couple pictures to jazz things up and make a bunch of raw text personal and interesting. On those occasions that I've worked to get images into the contacts, though, I don't think that the other members of my group benefit, since the contacts view is individual, and it's challenging to drive users through to add the image column. (probably just as well, though, since I just got rid of my custom stylesheet, and you still don't have that enhancement I suggested added in, so images in the contact list are inconvenient sizes.)

If I had greater power over contact fields, I could create a nice "intranet web page" to share with the group.

Think about it.
Especially the part about exporting pictures to outlook contacts. I'm pretty sure my phone can get images out of synced outlook contacts, which is even more fun.
-greenup

OK, I get it. Too many options complicates things on the top end. Well, how about just offering a different page format? Not customizable, but maybe another style. Or, barring that, I'd just like to get rid of the black bars and the teensy-weensy thumbnail photos. I'm trying to simplify the effort in a small, tech-shy office, so the idea of exporting vCard files and such is probably too complicated.

One fun thing I would like to do with contacts, but is impossible without the deep configurability I mentioned above, is a image rollover for our homeowner's association.

If I could access contact entries individually from the web page builder, with a little (okay, maybe a lot) of javascript glue, I could have an image rollover of our subdivision that would pop-up a contact entry when you mousover'd someone's house. Vaguely google mashup, but with better detail, and security. (and faces! :-) )