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Adrian Ursu
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Posted on 10/03/2015 13:30:05

Hi Guys,

I need to add some functionality to one of our projects.

1. First one is printable version. I want to avoid using print.css and I was thinking I should save the page as PDF. I know I can generate the page by using ?pdf=tru but I don;t know if there is an option to save the PDF somewhere in the filesystem with a specific name

2. Send to friend. I need to allow users to send an email to someone and attach a file (the above generated file) to that email. Is that possible using standard DW functionality?

Any other ideas are welcomed.

Thanks,

Adrian


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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 10/03/2015 15:42:28
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Hi Adrian

One simpler approach in these webdays, would be sending a link to the page with the content. If it is personalized and 'secret' content, use a token so the URL cannot be guessed.

Also, if the content is generated by a page in Dynamicweb, why not generate the HTML in email format and send it as HTML?

Sending a PDF makes more sense if you have it already - but no need to create a PDF from HTML and send it off as an email that understands HTML already...

?pdf=true cannot save to a file.

If you could add some more information on the user story - what is being send by who and is it frontend/backend, I can help sketching a solution. I think the new forms module can be used.

BR Nicolai

 
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 10/03/2015 16:52:32
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Well, it's not that simple.

We have a page where we display search results. The search results are agregated based on some data from DW and some Live Data from NAV.

The data is displayed in a tabel generated and controled with KendoUI.

What we need is to print/download/send to email just the results displayed, not the entire page.

I have some complicated ideas about how to do that but I need to know first what options I have on DW part.

Can I use the API to send an email with an attachment?

Can I use the API to save a PDF?

Thanks,

Adrian

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 10/03/2015 17:01:45
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Hi Adrian

You can send emails using the EmailHandler:

http://developer.dynamicweb.com/api8/#Dynamicweb~Dynamicweb.EmailHandler.html

You cannot create PDF's using the API. Because of licensing issues we cannot make that part public.

But still, if you can create the PDF, you can create a HTML email. It is the same thing....

Simply make a pageview instance using the ID of the page with the content - give it a layout template that fits an email, and send it out...

Nicolai

 

 

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