Print template overview

How print template items lay out a paper page for the Print widget and the map editor Print button — not document reports or DOCX.

basic

A print template is a paper layout item: one canvas at a chosen page size, free-positioned elements (map, legend, text, and so on), and optional parameters the Print form asks for at run time. Output is the browser print / Save as PDF path against that page. It is not a Word/DOCX document template and it is not the unbuilt report template item.

See Print template for the item-type reference. This section is the authoring and workflow view.

  • Print template (this section). The layout item you author once and reuse.
  • Print widget. The web-app control that lets a viewer pick a template, fill parameters, and print the bound map. See Print widget.
  • Map editor Print. Opens or creates a template bound to the map you are editing. See Print this map.
  • Report template. Would fill PDF/DOCX from layer rows or form submissions. Not built.

Pick a print template when the audience wants a paper map with title block, legend, and scale. Do not expect per-feature inspection reports or DOCX merge from this path.

The lifecycle

  1. Create the template. Create → Print template (blank Letter portrait scaffold), restore/use an org starter, or use a map's Print → create new layout.
  2. Set paper. Size, orientation, margin on the designer canvas.
  3. Declare parameters. Title, author, notes, dropdowns — each with id, label, type, optional default and required flag. See Parameters.
  4. Place elements. Drag text, image, map, legend, scalebar, north-arrow, line, and rectangle boxes. Text uses literal segments plus parameter / dynamic chips. See Template tokens.
  5. Preview and print. From the designer, a web app's Print widget, or the map editor Print chooser.
  6. Share. Sharing follows the item. Public apps that print for anonymous viewers need public templates on the widget allowlist.

See also