Hello Experts,
I would like to share One Idea which could make life easier for developers.
Problem Statement:
Currently there is no functionality available to Print Pages data directly into PDF format for Review or Print purposes.
We have to do lots of customization to achieve this output. Like,
1) We have to Create Template for generating Output as PDF Format, which is really hectic to design each and every data line by line.
2) Updating a very small thing(like font size, column width etc) in the template consumes more time for running app locally to verify the changes in UI.
3) Output PDF content doesn't Wrap the words perfectly which causes surpass the content to border line of table (Specifically tabular data) and no option to Style(Wrap) it properly using CSS as well.
4) We have to set each column width manually as per content which generally fails for dynamic content.
Possible Solution:
We should be having something like 'Print' Widget(button) which we can insert to our page and it should allow to Print all the Data visible in the particular Page into PDF format and should be allowed to download Preview as .pdf file similar to our regular 'Ctrl+P' functionality to Print pages.
So that it would avoid so much of Customization which is mentioned into above Problem Statement and it will definitely make life easier for Developers.
Hello Saqib,
That seems to me excellent work done by you, Appreciated.
Only thing I would like mention is that,
It is currently Community Supported widget, hence few of the Organisations doesn't allow to use any Community Supported widgets.
Hence I would like to find something similar solution done and Supported by Platform itself.
Thanks.
Hi Azharuddin,
You can checkout the widget & If it’s useful then please give the reviews.
https://marketplace.mendix.com/link/component/243708/Xebia/Xebia-PrintPage
Hi Azharuddin Khan,
Just wanted to let you know that I’ve created and submitted this widget to the Mendix Marketplace. Now just waiting for the approval so it can go live.