Export To PDF and Save On Server

[Anthony]

Is it possible to use the export to pdf function of a radgrid to save the outputted pdf on the server? Essentially what I am trying to accomplish is to have a page with a bunch of user inputs and then when the user clicks the submit button it would save the page with everything that they have typed in as a pdf. I was hoping to achieve this by putting the entire page inside of a radgrids item template and then in the submit buttons code behind, I would like to export the grid to pdf and save it in a directory on the server. Is this at all possible? Is there an example somewhere on how to do it? Is this even the best approach to take?

[Daniel]

Hello Anthony,

I created a runnable demo for you. Test it at your side and let me know if you need further assistance.

Kind regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Sudhindra Shetty]

Thanks for the server side implementation. It really helped me.

Only question is how do we handle the file extensions. In this case you have hardcoded .pdf in  ResultsGridExporting function.

What if we want to export to different types word,pdf,excel etc?

Thanks.

[Phillip]

Can this file be generated, forced to print, and then deleted?  So that a print button can be created on the radgrid that will pull up the print dialog directly without displaying the pdf. 

[Daniel]

Hi guys,

@Sudhindra: Aside from the obvious differences in the method names, you have to use GridExporting when exporting to the rest of the supported formats.

@Phillip: I'm afraid we do not provide such functionality. If you need to print the control, please refer to the following code-library:
Print RadGrid contents

Best regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Phillip]

I wish that would work, but that method leaves to much up to the user's interpretation of the web page.  If I can force pdf I can control margins, print size, etc..

[Daniel]

Phillip,

You can try to embed the exported pdf file and then force the print dialog but this is out of the scope of our product.
See the attached project.

Thanks,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Seth]

Is there any other way to stop the document from being shown to the user other than using the Response.Redirect method?

[Daniel]

Hello Seth,

The PDF file is generated too late in the page lifecycle. The redirect is the only way to go in this case. Ending the response will result in a blank screen.

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Kelvin]

Hi Daniel,

I have exactly the same requirement but not able to down your demo file.  Is it possible for you to email the file. Thank you.

[Daniel]

Hello Kelvin,

There are two demos attached here. Which one do you need? The first one is about saving the file on the server and the second one is regarding printing the PDF file.

Regards,
Daniel
Telerik

[mouhamad]

Plz i need to help,

i want to export records checked by checkbox in radgrid  with content arabic and dir="rtl" to pdf

and i want to ask if i can using export with iTextSharp support rtl 

thx for help

[Daniel]

Hello Mouhamad,

RTL support couldn't be added to our PDF export due to major internal limitation.
In theory, you could use any third party library but I would recommend that you first test the compatibility with our controls.
Please excuse us for any inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Daniel
Telerik

[mouhamad]

Thx Daniel,

plz find attached file , then i use <ExportSettings Pdf-DefaultFontFamily="Arabic Typesetting"  > the result in screenshot problem

and another screenshot solution i needed.

[Daniel]

Hello Mouhamad,

I understand that there are problems with right-to-left languages and as I mentioned in my previous reply, this is not a supported scenario.
Unsupported features

Regards,
Daniel
Telerik