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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prasad48 · ‎11-22-2017

I am able to to show simple text. But Images are not appearing in PDF . I am using img tag

Sri Harsha3 · ‎07-04-2018

Hi,

Did you get any workaround for this problem??

eugeniu · ‎01-29-2019

Try to convert the image in base64 format and then replace the src of image like this:

your_html_code.replace("/sys_attachment.do\?sys_id", "data: png";base64," + your_base64_content);

I hope this could help you to solve your issue

KLewis · ‎02-18-2021

Hello,

Has anybody been able to get this working recently? It's just generating an empty pdf for me.