I have a report in Access which currently provides all details of a particular record(say a student). So every time the user wants the consolidated data of a particular student then the application just generates a report of that student in print preview format. Its a very large report containing almost all student related data.
Now I need to have one pdf that combines reports of all the students and displays them in one single pdf i.e all the pdf's that are generated by the above method now just need to me merged into one big pdf.
Do I need to create a completely new report or Can the same be done using some other method?
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Here in a product manager capacity.
Our goal is to generate a powerpoint presentation that populates a pre-defined template using specific values in our database (Amazon RDS)
The values will be photos and text data.
Ideal flow would be:
End user generates some data/photo output from other flows in our web application. All data will be in our database.
The user clicks 'Generate Powerpoint'
The application dynamically generates and populates the Powerpoint template with these values.
The end user will be sales people, and with the greatest of respect, not super technical or willing to mess around with configuring.
We have been investigating some node.js solutions to generate PDF of the above, early prototypes are fine....but the beauty of PowerPoint is the sales people will then be able to make any minor edits one the document is generated.
What would be great to confirm with this community:
1) Is the above broadly possible?
2) Any existing components we could buy/license to speed up development?
3) Any technical/non-technical suggestions?
Thanks
I'm trying to acheive having a summary section of a report saved into a separate pdf file. (Basically trying to avoid running two reports for the same data.)
Is it possible to export a particular part of an SSRS report to a separate pdf file?
I.e. If I had a summary table/rectangle within the main report, can it be saved separately from the main report? Having a pdf editor to split the file as suggested in:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27938046/ssrs-export-subreports-as-seperate-reports.html
I don't feel would save the time/hassle it costs to run the report twice.
Would this be an application for a linked report? I haven't used these, but it would seem a lot of information to pass through parameters (or am I missing something?).
I don't think that can be done in SSRS: you'll need special code like in your example that splits the pdf for you. If you just want a hands-free option, create two reports and have them run via subscription into the folders you need.
I have built a task-tracking database for my department. Tasks are assigned to staff in the "Assignee" field of the tasks table, which is actually a reference to the Staff table.
Once a week, I need to send out a report to each person, each report personalized to filter only those tasks they are assigned to. Simple enough for me to create manually, but creating one for each person is time-consuming and tedious. I have found code for outputting and/or emailing a report, but neither allows me to filter the reports via VBA. Ideally, I would simply create a loop that would fire these reports off one by one, applying the filter and sending the email to the corresponding staffer (the Staff table also contains their emails). I'm open to an intermediate step where the report is first saved somewhere if this makes it easier.
I cannot find a way to filter a report via VBA as I am exporting or emailing it. I have contemplated just creating the pre-filtered reports in advance and simply emailing these out, but this is not a dynamic method as it will not automatically account for staff changes, and I do not expect my successor to be VBA-friendly.
Help is much appreciated.
I have a created a report using Crystal Reports 10. The report contains information about the activity of a person. I need to generate and export this report into PDF for a number of persons (e.g. 70) automatically and save each PDF file with the name of the person, so I will get 70 PDF files.
I have searched for a solution on the Internet but did not manage to find anything helpful.
Can anyone help me with an answer?
Thank you!
You should hook up a parameter to the report's record filter - this way, you can make the report display only records for one particular person.
Then it's just a matter of writing a loop that sets the parameter value and exports a (uniquely named) PDF for each person.
I have an Acrobat form for work that our salesmen use to create proposals for jobs and their corresponding estimates.
The problem I am facing is that the form only stores data for one customer at a time. I am trying to get it to where they can type in a customers name (or job number, etc.) and it pull up all the form data used for that customer when that exact estimate was done (no matter how long ago it was).
How can I get my PDF form to do this (save current and all previous inputs) and not just save the current data in each editable field at a time?
I currently use Omniform and it does all of this; however, we are trying to switch over to Adobe and I am not too familiar with the software and how I can accomplish this!
Thank you in advance!
If you want to do all the processing local (without server roundtrip) you would have to embed all data in the PDF itself. There are several ways to do this but I would recommend using JavaScript. You would declare this at the document level. You would handle the blur event of the customer name (or other key field), find a match among the multiple customers and populate the secondary fields.
Assuming the data sits somewhere in a database, you would have to generate such a PDF or manipulate an existing template programmatically using a library. Not sure if you are looking to a programming solution or a tool.
Here is more info on JavaScript for Acrobat:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html