I need to created hundreds of PDFs each day. Each PDF will be the same blank purchase order, on top of which will be pasted various data points such as offer prices, dates, buyer names, seller names, etc. This will have the effect of creating hundreds of purchase orders each day, automatically.
I am thinking the best way to do this would be to take the data and paste it on top of the PDF using x/y coordinates.
I am looking for this community's thoughts on which technology would be best to use to put the data on top of / in the PDF. What are your thoughts? What questions can I answer for you that might give you further clarification?
I'm new to this forum, so apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong place. If you have suggestions about where I should post this or what tags I should add, I would appreciate that as well!
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Any advice on this would be appreciated! I'm a newbie to Power Automate and Flows, though have watched a lot of tutorial content. I haven't seen a guide for exactly what I'm looking to do, so was hoping an experienced user could provide some advice.
What I need to do is split a PDF into smaller PDFs grouped by entity ID numbers that are on each page. I can't go an split on an increment because some entities have more pages of data that others. Generally the PDF will be about 700 pages and will be split into about 300 PDFs grouped by entity. Currently this is a labor intensive process, and automating would be incredible.
I'm looking into doing it with an Encodian split PDF by text action, but that requires the text is provided. What I need is a way to identify which pages have the same ID and group those into PDFs.
Does anyone have any experience doing something similar?
I have tried putting this together, but so far have only found operations that will let me split when I find a specific text string that must be provided during the operation. What I need is a way to find the entity IDs on each page, and then group the pages for the each entity together and split into its own smaller PDF file.
I know how to calculate the change if I need to. I'm just not seeing how I can get the data needed to calculate it (original stock price) or just the percent change itself. Their website shows the percent change in example images on the home page, so it seems like it should be possible. I'm not very versed in Stock Market stuff, so it may entirely be my ignorance here.
I really only need end of day data but I've tried numerous endpoints, read through the docs, etc. I'm just stuck, any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi there working with bigcommerce Im looking to get the following style of break down on each category page
Essentially making a category version of;
%%Panel.HomeFeaturedProducts%%
%%Panel.SideTopSellers%%
%%Panel.HomeNewProducts%%
Ive gone ahead and attempted this however they seem to be pulling in from global values, and there dose not seem to me much option to break these down or limit the category, has anyone done this previously and if so how?
developerscott is correct in those panels not offering contextually unique data. I'd recommend looking into Unbxd. It has a 30 day trial so you can either investigate their programmatic solution or use it in place of making your own.
Is there a simple way to cause the column totals (like Sum) to appear at the end of a list instead of at the top of the list? Having them at the top just seems unnatural...
Thanks
Lonnie Tyre
You can move the totals to the bottom as described here.
I'd probably venture to guess that this was done because some lists may be large and span multiple pages and it could take quite a while to find out how many items are on a list.
However, you do have options. If you are code-savy, you can enlist the SPList.ItemCount Property and get your answer. From there you can put it anywhere you please. I have done it for custom web part development where the count drove certain things. For instance, maybe you would like to fire some event or change the style of something on the page based on how many tasks a user has assigned to them. You can get that information a few different ways but this is just one.
I'd look into possibly creating your own display forms if you have a strong enough desire. I have done that in SPD a few times.
Good luck!
i have a report which looks like this. it will be in PDF format:
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the user will input all the different foods, thus every section like NONE, MODERATE, SEVERE will be a different size and thus i need to be able to expand the sections during run time. in order to do that i should probably slice up the image and add different sections during run time. i dont know the proper way to do it.
please help me with a suggestion on how to go about fitting the text in the appropriate sections (but also keep in mind i have no control over how many foods are in each section, the user will decide this during run time)
I would create an iTextSharp table for each of your results (None, Moderate, Severe) and write out the table sequentially, in the order you want them to appear on your PDF. Each row in your tables would have four columns.
I found these articles useful for creating tables in iTextSharp:
iTextSharp - Introducing Tables
SourceForge Table Tutorial
Edit
Sorry, I didn't see the vb.net tag on your question. The pages I linked are in C# - I hope you can translate. I found that most of the iTextSharp samples you'll find are in C#.
It might be worth using a reporting tool rather than iTextSharp for formatted/tabular data?
We use Active Reports from http://www.datadynamics.com/ but I am sure there are others.
EDIT:
It looks like iTextSharp supports html-to-pdf conversion? Maybe thats easier to render?
Just did a search and found this: http://somewebguy.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/itextsharp-simplify-your-html-to-pdf-creation/