No Preview option in PDF Templates

SpudR · 13 June 2014 13:40

Thanks Sid
Most appreciated!

sid · 13 June 2014 14:53

You’re welcome !!

adr · 24 June 2014 05:09

can we do like this its generating pdf in custome module

1 ) first We need to add your custom module in to *Type drop down of PDF template module

This We can do it by drop down editor from admin , We need to search for pdf_template_type_dom drop down list and add -> option

Item name [ your custom directory name ] : example my custom module is ca_payment
Display label [ your wish ] : in my case i have given Payment
Save it .

2 ) After this We need Print as pdf option in our details view page of custom module

to add option in details view page open detailviewdefs.php

we can find this file under /custom/modules//metadata/detailviewdefs.php

we need to add option in to buttons array

array (
‘buttons’ =>
array (
0 => ‘EDIT’,
1 => ‘DUPLICATE’,
2 => ‘DELETE’,
3 => ‘FIND_DUPLICATES’,
// add option like this
4 => array ( ‘customCode’ => ‘’,
),

save it and check if you are not able to see the optin than

open custom/modules//language/en_us.lang.php
add label in this file

$mod_strings = array ( ‘LBL_PRINT_AS_PDF’ => ‘print PDF’,);

save it
and check [ now option will be there ]( if option is still not there than delete cache and check )

now all we need to do is call function on click of option
for this easiest way which i did copy the view.detail.php file from qoues or invoice

and replace it with custom/modules//views/view.detail.php

mostly following function will be there in the file

b_bookViewDetail
display
populateInvoiceTemplates
displayPopupHtml

replace the aos_qotes with your custom module name

arpit · 7 February 2015 10:39

Thanks for your steps but its still not working
Actually when i click on print pdf noting is happening

adr · 9 February 2015 07:24

Hi Arpit ,

Make sure u have Pdf template created for respective module ( module which you are trying to add print as pdf option ) under PDF Template module !

arpit · 9 February 2015 07:29

Hi,

I have double checked what you said, but it is still not working …

adr · 9 February 2015 07:42

Hi arpit ,

it would be nice if you can share the details of where you did the changes in files . with some screen shoots . on the your original post .

and you can also make use of Mpdf class unser :

require_once(‘modules/AOS_PDF_Templates/PDF_Lib/mpdf.php’);

SuiteConvert · 6 March 2015 03:00

My apologies if I’m beating this topic to death but I’ve tried following Sid’s instructions (#5953) on creating the functionality of PDF templates working with custom modules but I’ve run into a wall now aka lack of knowledge

1)I have my module(class attendees) available in the PDF template dropdown and it pulls data from the module to create a tempalte,
2) I have a the “Generate Letter” button in the detail view of the Attendees module showing
3) When I click Generate Letter I can view the list of available templates

When I select any template I get the following error

Fatal error: Class ‘Atnd_Attendee’ not found in /home/safety456/webapps/suitecrm/modules/AOS_PDF_Templates/formLetterPdf.php on line 39

I;'ve looked at this line which is below but not sure where to go from here. does anyone have any suggestions?

39| $module = new $module_type_create();

Here is the code I used to create the extended view in cusomt/moduleAttendee/views/detailview.php

require_once(‘include/MVC/View/views/view.detail.php’);
class CustomAtnd_AttendeesViewDetail extends ViewDetail{
public function display(){
global $sugar_config;

	//$aop_portal_enabled = !empty($sugar_config['aop']['enable_portal']) && !empty($sugar_config['aop']['enable_aop']);
    //$this->ss->assign("AOP_PORTAL_ENABLED", $aop_portal_enabled);
    
	require_once('modules/AOS_PDF_Templates/formLetter.php');
    formLetter::DVPopupHtml('Atnd_Attendees');
    parent::display();
}

}

Sidenote: This is running on 7.2 Release

andy · 6 March 2015 10:24

You are almost there!

Are you sure ‘Atnd_Attendee’ is the exact name of your module and its not ‘Atnd_Attendees’? If you look at line 36 you will see $module_type_create = rtrim($module_type,‘s’); This line is stripping the ‘s’ off the the module name and we need this for standard modules but with custom modules it may cause problems. Basically when the ‘s’ is stripped off your modules name it is no longer recognised. So what I would do is add an if statement to check for your module and not strip the ‘s’ off.

After line 37 add this:



    if($_REQUEST['module'] == 'Atnd_Attendees'){
        $module_type_create = $_REQUEST['module'];
    }

I also noticed you are not doing this in the custom folder so these changes wont be upgrade safe.

SuiteConvert · 6 March 2015 22:16

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your suggestion. I applied it and the pdf templates are working in my custom module. (you were correct my custom file name is Atnd_Attenddees not Atnd_Attendee as I wrote)

As you mentioned this change is not upgrade safe. knowing this now, I copied the AOS_PDF_Templates folder to the custom folder. However, when I do this I’m getting same error of “39| $module = new $module_type_create();” even though I included the if statement as directed.

I’m not a programmer but to me it seems that when I click on the pdf template name it does not know to look in custom/module/AOS_PDF_Templates/formLetterPdf.php, thus the same error

I would prefer to make this pdf template feature upgrade safe, How would I go about this if you wouldn’t mind sharing?

Thank you again

andy · 9 March 2015 10:33

In the view.detail.php change this line to the custom version of your formLetter.php


require_once('modules/AOS_PDF_Templates/formLetter.php');

to


require_once('custom/modules/AOS_PDF_Templates/formLetter.php');

But to be truly upgrade safe you will have to create a custom version of the view.detail.php in the custom folder of your module and then add the above line to that.

bojkic · 8 April 2015 07:13

I am trying to get Generate Letter working for Cases module. I have done everything as advised on this and other threads. I get the button and I get the popup showing templates made for Cases module. But when I click one of the templates I get a blank page with url: http://office.advokatibijeljina.com/index.php?entryPoint=formLetter and no dowload.

Is there anything specific when trying to add Generate Letter functionality to one of basic modules like Cases? Any help or clue what I am I doing wrong?

THX!

robinhind · 16 April 2015 13:16

Hi
Ive been following the guides for adding a generate letter function to a custom module and i’ve hit a brick wall, i’ve gone over everything a few times and even started from scratch but i seem to hit the same point as bojkic in that the function results in a blank white page:

I have a “generate letter” button in my custom module detail view,
I have a pdf template set up for the module which shows up as a pop up when you press “generate letter” but then i just get a white screen.

I’ve checked for errors in the log and in chrome developer consul of which i have attached screen grabs and i have also attached copies of the custom/modules/[custom_module]views and the ListViewSmarty.php that i created in the custom/modules/[custom_module] folder.

If anyone could point me in the right direction i’d be really happy as i’m feeling pretty dumb right now! :S

Thanks

Matt · 16 April 2015 15:26

Have you checked the php error log?

robinhind · 17 April 2015 15:20

Here is the log, i’ve had a look but can’t work it out, i’ll have a good look over the weekend unless someone spots something obvious?

THanks
Rob

Matt · 17 April 2015 15:25

looks like it is a bug in formLetterPdf.php

bojkic · 31 July 2015 11:03

so any suggestion how to fix it? I have tried many things but with Cases module I always end up with black page /index.php?action=ajaxui#ajaxUILoc=index.php%3Fmodule%3DCases%26action%3DDetailView%26record%3D1de544d5-dacd-7347-0a3a-55bb2f306a57

davidszego · 31 July 2015 13:57

Timely… I’m getting exactly the same problem now that I’ve figured out how to actually add the button.

BTW - EVERYTHING on the web talks about “adding 'AOS_GENLET ’ => …” etc. to your detailviewdef.php file in your custom module. Big problem - most custom modules won’t have that file, and if you copy the one from another built-in module, you’re going to have a hell of a time rewriting it (your panels, etc.). Worse, if you just add a button to the array without the rest of the code that’s normally in that file, you’ll get nothing but the button!

Best way: Find the cache-generated detailviewdef.php file, copy it to your custom metadata directory, and add the button there:

find /yourWebRoot/suitecrm/ -iname detailviewdefs.php | grep YourModuleName
cp eb50-upload/upgrades/temp/0113Y4/SugarModules/modules/YourModuleName/metadata/detailviewdefs.php custom/modules/YourModuleName/metadata/

Bang, it all works (except for this blank screen bug).
So… any thoughts on what the bug is in formLetterPdf.php?

bojkic · 31 July 2015 14:00

I made button work fine, and appropriate list of the templates appears, however when I click on the template I get a blank screen…

davidszego · 31 July 2015 14:03

Bingo… formLetterPdf.php has a debug line right up top! (Clever, saves me the effort!) sooo…

Fatal error: Class ‘your_ModuleName’ not found in /yourWebRoot/suitecrm/modules/AOS_PDF_Templates/formLetterPdf.php on line 39

Anyone know how to properly instantiate and include the class of a custom module you’ve built?

Admins? Will?