Thanks Lars, Yes, I’ve been looking at the HTML and throwing it at validators and ‘HTML Tidy’. There are lot’s of nasty nested SPANs everywhere - would be good (from our perspective) to factor these out as custom style elements … I seem to remember we can load custom style sheets … so need to take a peek at how to load those, and eliminate the errors that were in the forms.
Cheers David On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:51 PM Lars Helge Øverland <l...@dhis2.org> wrote: > > Hi David, > > there is no easy/reliable way of converting HTML and CSS to Excel (except > of course going into the HTML rendering engine business). So in a less > ambitious approach, for custom HTML forms, the system look for a > well-formed HTML table and parses that into a grid which is subsequently > rendered as Excel / PDF. > > So the current approach is to use a valid, well-formed HTML table as the > basis of your custom forms. You can validate your HTML here: > > https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input > > > regards, > > Lars > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:26 AM, <janhenrik.overl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ----Forwarded using *Multi-Forward Chrome Extension* >> <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/multi-forward-for-gmail/jjmdplljmniahpamcmabdnahmjdlikpm> >> --- >> From: Knut Staring >> Date: Mon Apr 11 2016 16:00:35 GMT+0530 (IST) >> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Possible bug? Saving a Dataset Report in Excel >> or PDF format >> To: David Hagan >> Cc: dhis2-devs >> > >> Hi David, >> >> It seems the issue is with CUSTOM forms - it works well with the standard >> forms, is hard to realise for arbitrary custom forms. However, it may be >> possible if the forms are very well defined (however, they may then have to >> look very much like the generated forms). >> >> Knut >> >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:59 AM, David Hagan <david.ha...@sagehagan.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Any thoughts on this? >>> >>> I’ve tested it on https://play.dhis2.org/demo and there is no problem, >>> but we have a major country rolling out this month with the version below >>> and this is one of their outstanding issues. >>> >>> Cheers. >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:24 AM David Hagan <david.ha...@sagehagan.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We have a production instance of DHIS2 >>>> >>>> Version: 2.21 >>>> Build revision: 21042 >>>> Build date: 2016-03-02 17:01 >>>> >>>> That exhibits the following symptoms. >>>> For ANY dataset report, downloading the PDF or Excel versions of the >>>> report displays the raw HTML. It’s like no conversion stylesheet has been >>>> applied. >>>> >>>> I’ve attached to downloads for reference. Is this a known issue? (I >>>> haven’t gone and checked it on demo … will go there next. >>>> >>>> David >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >>> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Knut Staring >> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo >> Norway: +4791880522 >> Skype: knutstar >> http://dhis2.org >> > > > > -- > Lars Helge Øverland > Lead developer, DHIS 2 > University of Oslo > Skype: larshelgeoverland > http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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