GoCubbies Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Hello All, I just wanted to share this link with everyone in case you are looking to create a quick PDF from a DataPage: http://pdfcrowd.com/save-to-pdf/ You can simply add this line of code to create a link to generate a PDF: <a href="//pdfcrowd.com/url_to_pdf/">Save to PDF</a> Just wanted to share this with everyone! AlisaPeters, lmooring, piyaliguha90 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CroixRonaldCoppge Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Thanks for sharing...very helpful! JolliBeng 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jan Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Thank you for sharing the solution! It is great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 aam82 Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 That might work for Public datapages, but for Private... I have been hard-formatting web pages for printing with Chrome. Chrome also allows one to save a page as PDF. I'm using a Print-friendly style sheet, and custom Caspio style sheets on these data pages to make tables really tight, remove padding everywhere. By hard-formatting I mean for example that a 775px width is equivalent to an 8.5" page, and will print as it appears on screen without zooming/blurriness. Also note that Caspio's responsive code for header and footer appear to break print-friendly style sheets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Aurora Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 Seems, it doesn't work now. Does anyone knows any workaround? Aurora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 piyaliguha90 Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Just want to know anyone in this forum actually use this software? My last PDF generator was not work well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jan Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Hi Aurora and piyali, I have used this generator. Please note, that the link does not work in the Preview mode. Please also note, that you should use the code as it is and click the "Source" button in your HTML Block or Header&Footer element: <a href="//pdfcrowd.com/url_to_pdf/">Save to PDF</a> You should do not change anything in the code. Could you please tell what does not work? Do you see any error message? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Aurora Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Thanks a lot Jan, Now it works properly ! Aurora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Elena Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 It appears the generator converts pages to pdf only if the data page is not secured. Otherwise, what gets converted is the login page to your secured data page, and not the data page itself. At least in my case, that is what I get. Anybody has any workaround? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Elena Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Oh by the way, my caspio forms and detailed pages are deployed via "html embed". I can safely say, this doesn't work on html embed deployment route. I am yet to try the code with iframe and Wordpress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Walter Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 Hi Elena, It's a free PDF generator and they say "The web page must be accessible on the public Internet." In Compare-Caspio-Plans.pdf, you can find a Premium feature "PDF Reports" that generates a PDF version of tabular reports. I'm afraid, I do not know much about this feature, but you always can ask the Sales department. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Elena Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 Hi Walter, thank you. The one offered by Caspio as part of the plan is for converting results page in tabular form. At least that's what I gathered from their compare plan sheet. I did ask one of their pros to write a code for me (which I paid) last year, so I can convert my details page into pdf. It worked for a while. You actually just reminded me (inadvertently) that I should go back to them because said code quit working a few months ago for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 joristhielemans Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Hi All, I have used both pdf methods (pdfcrowd and caspio generator) and am very pleased with both. Pdf crowd is nice for "open" datapages but not if there's an authentication. I used a generated autovalue to work around this problem, but there has to be an action to generate it somewhere in the proces. So it works and I was happy to use it. Nowadays we have a bigger plan with caspio and I have the generator. It sort of works the same (via link), but now for everything and I have support for questions. Ultimately a much better solution and very happy to get it. Pdf crowd however worked fine for me and my customers and I'm glad I had a pdf solution. Jan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MayMusic Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 Thank you it is a great post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 GoCubbies Posted December 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Just wanted to add this concept as well, if you want the PDF to trigger automatically, and not have to click a link, try this script in the Header/Footer: <script> window.onload=function(){ location.href = "//pdfcrowd.com/url_to_pdf/" } </script> Also if you go to http://pdfcrowd.com/save-to-pdf/ you see other parameters you can add to the URL to customize the PDF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mparks Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 I tried pdfcrowd and it works great. However has anyone noticed it requires a huge amount of bandwidth to run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 skauntey Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 Hi guys, Great post! For some reasons I can't get pdfcrowd to print data pages- Having read a post earlier, I believe this is due to authentication settings. It happily converts blank html pages to pdf and omits everything that appear on the embedded datapages. Is there any other pdf converter that I should be aware of? Somebody mentioned about Caspio's pdf generator. Could somebody point me to that feature please? Thanks a bunch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Walter Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hi Skauntey, If you send me the URL of your page, that is not assigned with any Authentication and does not use a Search page, I will send you the link to PDF for pdfcrowd. The PDF Generator generates a PDF version of tabular reports and it's a paid feature if your account is not Corporate. Probably, you better to contact your account manager for details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 skauntey Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hi Walter Thanks for your reply. I have tried pdfcrowd and it did work great earlier. Since all the datapages are authenticated, it only printed blanks with header and footer. I will have a chat with my account manager to find out more about PDF Generator. In the mean time I found a handy solution that might buy me some time. http://forums.caspio.com/index.php/topic/4223-print-button/?hl=print Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 GoCubbies Posted February 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 It looks like this pdfcrowd is blocking the URL from Caspio, so the solution for creating a print button in the page http://forums.caspio.com/index.php/topic/4223-print-button/?hl=print may be the better solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mparks Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 I tried using this and it worked great however it caused 1000's of views on my page and completely consumed all of my bandwidth. When I realized all of my bandwidth allocation was being used up within a couple of days I contacted Caspio support and they suggested I remove pdfcrowd from my page and see if that fixed the problem. Once I removed it from my datapage everything went back to normal. Has anyone else had this problem with pdfcrowd? Update: I just tried using pdfcrowd again in my datapage and got this message when I clicked the link Blacklisted URL. Contact us if you believe it is a mistake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MayMusic Posted January 9, 2018 Report Share Posted January 9, 2018 Very interesting thanks for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HaveExtra Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 Hi there great thread! I'm new to Caspio and trying to figure out if there's a way to run a PDF report from customer data (before I sign up for an account). However, it seems like the 3rd party solution mentioned above is not working anymore? I know there's a PDF Generator with the Caspio Performance plan but we are too still small for that price point. I think Caspio would work for us but without a PDF Generator, we may have to look elsewhere. Has anyone found a workaround? Or is this 3rd part option still working? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 cdutoit62 Posted June 17, 2018 Report Share Posted June 17, 2018 On 4/25/2018 at 10:59 PM, HaveExtra said: Hi there great thread! I'm new to Caspio and trying to figure out if there's a way to run a PDF report from customer data (before I sign up for an account). However, it seems like the 3rd party solution mentioned above is not working anymore? I know there's a PDF Generator with the Caspio Performance plan but we are too still small for that price point. I think Caspio would work for us but without a PDF Generator, we may have to look elsewhere. Has anyone found a workaround? Or is this 3rd part option still working? Thanks! Very much in the same boat here. Did you perhaps find a solution that you would be willing to share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Corpcat Posted March 5, 2019 Report Share Posted March 5, 2019 You can also use webmerge https://www.webmerge.me/caspio-document-generation The min price is $29.95 per month however Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 NailDyanC Posted December 12, 2020 Report Share Posted December 12, 2020 A new PDF download option is available for the details pages of Reports, Calendars, Combined Chart and Reports, Details and Pivot Table DataPages. The PDF configuration for details pages is similar to the existing options available on results pages. Learn more about PDF reports generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I just wanted to share this link with everyone in case you are looking to create a quick PDF from a DataPage: http://pdfcrowd.com/save-to-pdf/
You can simply add this line of code to create a link to generate a PDF:
Just wanted to share this with everyone!
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