generate pdf in helsinki

ochiengboniface · ‎09-19-2016

Hallo SN,

I found this tutorial on how to generate pdf in geneva. (PDF Generation in Geneva ). I am trying to generate the same in Helsinki. I cant to seem to get it to work. Is there a method to get it to work in Helsinki?

Wallace Roets · ‎10-07-2016

Simplified code (Helsinki AJAX Script Include) for generating a PDF from HTML

example method you can call from a UI action (obviously you would want to replace the hardcoded bits with what you require)

var PDF = Class.create();

PDF.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, {


   _document : null,


   example : function (){

   this.createPDF('<p>Hello World!</p>',   //HTML to convert to PDF

     'incident',   //Attach PDF to table

     'd324db7d2b9aa20072675aa419da1547', //Attach PDF to record/sys_id

     'myFile.pdf');   //attachment filename

   },


   createPDF : function(html, table, sys_id, filename) {

      var pdfDoc = new GeneralPDF.Document(null, null, null, null, null, null);

     this._document = new GeneralPDF(pdfDoc);

      this._document.startHTMLParser();

      this._document.addHTML(html);

     this._document.stopHTMLParser();

      this._saveAs(table, sys_id, filename);

   },


   _saveAs : function (table, sys_id, filename){

      var att = new GeneralPDF.Attachment();

      att.setTableName(table);

      att.setTableId(sys_id);

      att.setName(filename);

      att.setType('application/pdf');

      att.setBody(this._document.get());

      GeneralPDF.attach(att);

   },


       type: 'PDF'

});

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A Elbarbary · ‎07-14-2017

Hi, have you found any solution for this?

A Elbarbary · ‎08-27-2017

Hi Malgorzata, I ended up using native 'table' & 'font' tags to achieve this, some inline css attributes are still allowed though such as 'font-size:-px'

Gosia Urbanska · ‎08-29-2017

This was my solution too

brendanwilson84 · ‎11-08-2017

How could i call this in a on submit client script?

Ive tried this, but nothing happening

function onSubmit() {

//Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

var ga = new GlideAjax('global.PDF');

ga.addParam('sysparm_name','createPDF');

ga.addParam('sysparm_table','u_online_referral');

ga.addParam('sysparm_sysID',g_form.getUniqueValue());

ga.addParam('sysparm_filename','Referral.pdf');

}

victor21 · ‎11-15-2017

Hi,

Are you not missing the final line that perform the processing and receive result?

ga.getXML(response);

//Victor