PDF generation from record

[rah dev]

Hi community, good day,
I am working on a requirement.
On the incident table, I need a button so that when I click that button, the record gets downloaded in PDF format. But this is not happening.
I am using this approach...

function onClickGeneratePDF() {

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

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

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

    ga.getXMLAnswer(function(response) {

        if (response) {

            window.open(response, "_blank");

        } else {

            alert("Failed to generate PDF.");

        }

    });

}

Script include:

var IncidentPDFGenerator = Class.create();

IncidentPDFGenerator.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, {

    generatePDF: function() {

        var sysId = this.getParameter('sys_id');

        var gr = new GlideRecord('incident');

        if (!gr.get(sysId)) {

            return '';

        }

        // Collect fields

        var number = gr.getValue('number');

        var assignedTo = gr.getDisplayValue('assigned_to');

        var state = gr.getDisplayValue('state');

        // Prepare content (simple text for PDF)

        var content = "Incident Details\n\n";

        content += "Number: " + number + "\n";

        content += "Assigned To: " + assignedTo + "\n";

        content += "State: " + state + "\n";

        // Save as attachment

        var fileName = "Incident_" + number + ".pdf";

        var sa = new GlideSysAttachment();

        var attSysId = sa.write('incident', sysId, fileName, content);

        // Return a download URL

        return gs.getProperty('glide.servlet.uri') + "sys_attachment.do?sys_id=" + attSysId;

    }

});

[Bhuvan]

@rah dev 

Use PDFGenerationAPI to generate this, below are reference links

https://www.servicenow.com/docs/bundle/zurich-api-reference/page/app-store/dev_portal/API_reference/...

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-articles/generating-custom-pdfs-using-the-new-pdfgene...

https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0689606

If this helped to answer your query, please mark it helpful & accept the solution.

Thanks,

Bhuvan

[palanikumar]

Hi @rah dev ,

There is an default option to generate PDF without script. You can use below UI Action script

function onClickGeneratePDF({
  window.open("/incident.do?PDF&sys_id=" + g_form.getUniqueValue()+ "&sysparm_view=default", "_blank");
}

Note: If you want specific fields to be listed then either use existing view or create a new view with the fields you want in the PDF. Replace default in the above script with the name of the view created

[rah dev]

can you please check this script, I tried but found this error msg:

Could not save record because of a compile error: JavaScript parse error at line (1) column (29) problem = destructuring assignment is an ECMAScript 6 feature - not supported (<refname>; line 1)

[palanikumar · Accepted solution]

Just realized close bracket is missing

function onClickGeneratePDF(){
  window.open("/incident.do?PDF&sys_id=" + g_form.getUniqueValue()+ "&sysparm_view=default", "_blank");
}