Hi,
I am planning to design a form and the value enter in the form will be stored in the data table and finally i want to download/print those data in report as PDF. can you share me some example for this ?
Hi @yuvarajan1989 ,
I can get you part of the way there.
Here is an app that takes a number entered into a text box and passes it to a data table. After that you can download the data table as an html file.
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shaun
February 6, 2019, 9:46am
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Hi @yuvarajan1989 ! Have you seen this thread? It might help you with creating PDF files.
Hi Niels,
The following examples work for me in Python 3:
# trying PyPDF2
@anvil.server.callable
def test_pdf_read():
pdf_bytes = app_files.foo.get_bytes()
# Create a BytesIO object that can be used directly as a file
file = io.BytesIO(pdf_bytes)
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(file)
print(pdfReader.numPages)
# trying FPDF
@anvil.server.callable
def make_pdf():
pdf = FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font('Arial', 'B', 16)
pdf.cell(40, 10, 'Hello World!')
byte_string = pd…
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