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ViwalViwal 

Download as PDF button

Hi,

 

I have a inline visualforce page on an object detail page.

 

I want to have a Button on the object detail page  which will dowload this page.

Anybody know how to do this?

 

RepsGRepsG

Hi,

 

From the top of my head, you can create a Visualforce page which will with RenderAs=PDF attribute.

 

You page would be something like this:

 

<apex:page standardController="Account"  showHeader="true" tabStyle="account" renderas="pdf" >

 

<apex:detail relatedList="true" title="true"/>

 

</apex:page>

 

You will then create a button that points to the visualforce page.
themattythematty

If the above didn't work for you, you could always code a boolean from a paramter and throw a If statement in the renderAs flag in the apex:page tag: renderAs="{!IF(printable,'pdf','')}"

 

and throw a simple commandlink (or button) like: <apex:commandLink value="View PDF" action="{!printPDF}"/>

 

Apex code:

 

Public Boolean printable {get; set;}

 

Public PageController()

{

printable = ((ApexPages.CurrentPage().getParameters().get('pdf') == 'true')?true:false);

}

 

public PageReference printPDF()
{
PageReference pdf = Page.YourPage;

for (String key : ApexPages.CurrentPage().getParameters().keySet())
{

//this will preserve your current parameters
pdf.getParameters().put(key, ApexPages.CurrentPage().getParameters().get(key));
}

pdf.getParameters().put('pdf','true');
pdf.setRedirect(true);
return pdf;
}