On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 1:27:06 AM UTC-7, Paul Ellis wrote: > > Hello, > > I use pyfpdf to display some information from my my database. When I click > save the filename is 'pdf_view' which is the name of the controller > function. > > How can I change this? I want the name to also come from the database. > > With the help of others on here. I can make a download link without > viewing the PDF with a custom filename. However, my client would really > prefer to be able to download with a customer filename from the PDF view. > > This output call works fine. But the Autofill name is not taken from the > variable passed to the function. > > return pdf.output(name=bname, dest='S') > > fpdf? I haven't tried my sample for a while (like not having seen a typo), but what I see is that the browser uses the page name (from the charming "fpdfdemo" I've called the function).
I'm specifying response.view = generic.pdf, I don't know if that is relevant to the naming logic. /dps -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

