[Solved] header text and exporttopdf problems

[Erwin Floresca]

Hi,

I am trying to display header text in two lines. The first line will have the code and the second line will be description. In order to force the description in second row, I inserted <br> tag between code and description. so my headertext would be something like "MSFT<br>Microsoft". The header text is displayed correctly in the grid. But it breaks when I try to export the grid to pdf. I read in the documentation that we cannot have "<", ">" or any other invalid XHTMl tags. so my question is how can I display the header text in two lines and still be able to export to pdf? Is there any other valid xhtml tag that I can use?

Thanks,
sridhar.

[Daniel]

Hello Erwin,

You could use <p> (paragraph) tags instead of <br>. For more information about the PDF format, please visit this link: PDF export

Let me know if other questions arise.

Best regards,
Daniel
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[Erwin Floresca]

Thank you. I will try that. I think <br> is invalid tag in XHTML. so first I will try <br /> tag to see if it works. 

[Vaibhav]

exportToPDF() function doesn't work when AutoGenerateColumnsproperty is false for the grid and we use the "GridTemplateColumn". Any solution?

Here's the code:

     <rad:RadGrid ID="RadGridCommentsView" OnColumnCreated="RadGrid_ColumnCreated" runat="server"  
                Style="height:610px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 75px;"  OnPreRender="RadGrid1_PreRender" ShowHeader ="False"
                ShowGroupPanel="false" AutoGenerateColumns="False"  ShowFooter="true" MasterTableView-CommandItemSettings-ShowRefreshButton ="false"
                 MasterTableView-CommandItemDisplay ="None" MasterTableView-CommandItemSettings-ShowAddNewRecordButton ="false" OnItemCommand ="RadGridCommentsView_ItemCommand"   >
               <ExportSettings IgnorePaging="true" OpenInNewWindow="true" ExportOnlyData="true" FileName="Claim Comments Report" HideStructureColumns="true"   />
                <ClientSettings  AllowDragToGroup="true"  >
                      <ClientEvents OnRowDblClick="OnGridRowDblClick" OnColumnResized="ColumnResize"/>
                    <Scrolling AllowScroll="true" UseStaticHeaders="true"  />
                </ClientSettings>
                <PagerStyle VerticalAlign="Top" Visible="true"  AlwaysVisible ="true" Mode="Slider" ShowPagerText="true"  Position ="Top"    />
                <MasterTableView Width="100%" AutoGenerateColumns="False" CommandItemDisplay="Top" >
                    <Columns>
                        <rad:GridBoundColumn DataField="ROW_ID" UniqueName="ROW_ID" Visible="False" >
                        </rad:GridBoundColumn>

                        <rad:GridTemplateColumn>
                            <ItemTemplate>
                             <table width="70%" cellspacing ="5px">
                                <tr>
                                <td colspan ="2">  
                                 <b> Subject:</b>
                                 <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="p1">
                       
                                 <asp:Label ID="lblSubject" runat="server" Text ='<%# Eval("Subject") %>' />
                                 </asp:PlaceHolder>
                                 </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                <td>
                                <b>Date/Time Entered: </b> <asp:Label ID="lblDateEntered" runat="server" Text =' <%#Eval("Date/Time Entered") %>' />        
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                <b>Type:</b> <asp:Label ID="lblType" runat="server" Text ='<%# Eval("Type") %>' />
                                </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                <td colspan ="2">
                                 <b> Entered By:</b> <asp:Label ID="lblEnteredBy" runat="server" Text ='<%# Eval("Entered By")%>' />
                                </td>
                                </tr>

                                <tr>
                                <td colspan ="2">
                                <b> Comments:</b> <asp:Label ID="lblText" runat="server" Text ='<%# Eval("Text") %>' />
                                </td>
                                </tr>
                                  <tr>
                                <td colspan ="2">
                                <hr />
                                </td>
                                </tr>
                             </table>
                            </ItemTemplate>
                        </rad:GridTemplateColumn>

                    </Columns>
                </MasterTableView>


            </rad:RadGrid>

[Daniel]

Hello Vaibhav,

Please examine the "Exporting HTML tables" section in the following topic:
PDF Export documentation

Regards,
Daniel
Telerik