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Print Screen Dashboard (please)!

Charlie_Kaufman — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:07:25 GMT

I will add my voice to the growing voices asking for this feature. The ability to be able to "print screen" directly from my Esri Dashboards has become one of the main asks in my organization for record keeping and decision making purposes.

Re: Print Screen Dashboard (please)!

jcarlson — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:45:46 GMT

Your users know that basically every OS comes with a good screenshot tool nowadays, right? The built-in "print" tools tend to be pretty poor, too, as they try to shoehorn everything into a 8.5 x 11 page with margins. I haven't seen a built-in print tool that does better than just screenshotting it myself.

Re: Print Screen Dashboard (please)!

Charlie_Kaufman — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:43:40 GMT

@jcarlson Well yes, we can all use the "snip" tool, but that is not very quick or easy to do while you are briefing decision makers. Since there have been posts on this topic that I have found as far back as 2013 I thought it was safe to keep pushing Esri to perhaps listen to their users.

Re: Print Screen Dashboard (please)!

jcarlson — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:49:53 GMT

The "print" widget that was finally added to Experience Builder recently doesn't give me much hope for a good, functional solution. It may be faster to just figure out a custom solution that meets your particular users' needs.

We have a few datasets that some users routinely need in specific, printable formats, so we just use a custom Python script that is triggered by an API call they make when they click on a "generate report" button. Takes time to develop, but not as much time as you'll end up waiting on an official tool.

Re: Print Screen Dashboard (please)!

NathanEnge — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:17:04 GMT

I added a Print Preview button to my ArcGIS Dashboard.

(view in My Videos)

Steps:

Blank Screen ExB
Embed 100% sized Dashboard via URL
Add Button widget to the ExB
Set Button Action to Print Preview

Re: Print Screen Dashboard (please)!

Adi_Lebron — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:57:17 GMT

@NathanEnge This is genius, has it's quirks but definitely a work around to getting a Dashboard Print tool. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Print Screen Dashboard (please)!

Charlie_Kaufman — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:08:36 GMT

Well here it is... Esri just released "What's New ArcGIS Dashboards" 2025 Edition and still no ability to print the screen.

🙄 😫