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Help needed: does anyone have experience with, or ideas for adding graphs in documents

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What the title says For some reason I am under the assumption that it was possible to have graph-elements incorporated in document templates.... ?? Is there a way to do that? Is anyone working on a way to do that? Bar that the Modeler allows you to create a "print screen", is this functionality available to incorporate into out apps? the way we currently resovled this is to export to Excel, generate graphs, print screen to Paint and C&P into system.image inheriting objects....... but there is a LOT of manual actions in there, making it accident prone!

asked 2014-07-13

Lex van Rooy

3 answers

Simon Black · Answer 1 · 2014-07-14

It has been done in the past using dynamic images in a document template. What you have to do is first render the graphs on the screen, then convert these to images and save these in the mendix system with a reference to another object. Once this is done you can view the images in the document template.

I have seen it done before so know its possible, i just don't know the technical pieces of it.

Andries Smit · Answer 2 · 2014-07-14

Its not much fun to get it working, but it is possible.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11138852/render-and-export-fusioncharts-on-the-server

Pieter van de Braak · Answer 3 · 2014-07-14

We use jaspersoft to create a custom report. However this will not run on a public cloud slot atm.