Sounds good. Yes I have seen a lot of forms coming out of the great MS Word -> HTML converter - can be an interesting task to clean up.
Lars On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:59 PM, David Hagan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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, <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> 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 : [email protected] >>>> 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 : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > -- Lars Helge Øverland Lead developer, DHIS 2 University of Oslo Skype: larshelgeoverland http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>
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