Great. Will investigate further... Also another question
the reportbro logo at the bottom of the pdf is there to stay? I´m doing a private app for my business. Do i need to pay any licence? How do i remove that logo in the bottom of the page? Regards António 2017-11-22 13:31 GMT+00:00 Alex <a...@jobsta.at>: > On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 1:46:06 PM UTC+1, Ramos wrote: >> >> Some questions ... >> >> 1 - i see that you have already a report_request table with the reports. >> Are you talking about this table to save reports? Looks to me that this >> table is to save the "templates" of the pdf reports >> > > this is a different table to temporarily store report definition and data. > It is used as a workaround for the plugin. The data for pdf preview in MS > Edge browser cannot be set directly and needs a url instead. Further this > is also needed for xls preview, because there is no simple preview plugin > for xls. Therefor the url for xls preview is opened in a new tab and > handled by the browser. > > >> 2 - How do i merge data from my db with your templates and generate a >> live pdf with live data? so users can save it in their desktop ? >> > > in your web2py controller (where you generate the final pdf file) create a > Report instance: > report = Report(report_definition, data) > > where report_definition is the report template (the one you uploaded to > your save controller), and data is a dict containing the actual data to > fill in. the keys must match with your parameters of the report. E.g. if > you have a parameter "first_name" then data must contain a key > "first_name". You should check afterwards if there were any errors during > report initialization (report.errors) > > the report itself (pdf file) is created with > report_file = report.generate_pdf() > > >> regards >> António >> >> 2017-11-22 12:35 GMT+00:00 Alex <al...@jobsta.at>: >> >>> On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 12:07:56 PM UTC+1, Ramos wrote: >>>> >>>> Not that easy :) >>>> >>>> i´m reading your links and also this link >>>> https://github.com/jobsta/reportbro-designer/blob/master/ >>>> demos/custom_save.html >>>> >>>> where i´m stuck in the save part >>>> >>>> what url do i put in the save url ? >>>> >>> >>> that's up to you. e.g. >>> '{{=URL('report', 'save')}}' >>> so you would need a controller file report.py with a function save in >>> your application. There you have to save the report (available as data >>> parameter) yourself wherever you want to. E.g. you could save it in your db >>> or as a file. >>> >>> In your case you don't have the controller you specified in the url, >>> therefor the ajax call fails. >>> >>> >>>> [image: Imagem inline 1] >>>> >>>> i moved the run function from the reportbro_web2py.py to a controller >>>> and i use it in the above "your save controller url" but i get a bad >>>> request in the browser when i do in the console >>>> $('#reportbro').reportBro('save') >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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 web2py+un...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > 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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
