Export To PDF and Save On Server in UI for ASP.NET AJAX Grid

Anthony

6 posts

Member since:
Aug 2010

Posted 22 Feb 2011 Link to this post

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

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Posted 23 Feb 2011 Link to this post

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
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Sudhindra Shetty

4 posts

Member since:
May 2010

Posted 21 Jul 2011 Link to this post

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

27 posts

Member since:
Mar 2011

Posted 02 Dec 2011 Link to this post

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

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4949 posts

Posted 07 Dec 2011 Link to this post

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
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Phillip

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Member since:
Mar 2011

Posted 07 Dec 2011 Link to this post

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

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Posted 12 Dec 2011 Link to this post

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
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Print-Exported-Pdf-File.zip

Seth

66 posts

Member since:
Oct 2009

Posted 12 Sep 2012 Link to this post

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

Daniel

Admin

4949 posts

Posted 14 Sep 2012 Link to this post

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.

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Daniel
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Kelvin

1 posts

Member since:
Jul 2012

Posted 27 Jan 2016 in reply to Daniel Link to this post

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

Admin

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Posted 01 Feb 2016 Link to this post

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
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mouhamad

4 posts

Member since:
Mar 2016

Posted 07 Apr 2016 Link to this post

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

Admin

4949 posts

Posted 08 Apr 2016 Link to this post

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.

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mouhamad

4 posts

Member since:
Mar 2016

Posted 08 Apr 2016 Link to this post

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

Admin

4949 posts

Posted 08 Apr 2016 Link to this post

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

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