Tuesday, October 7, 2014

PDF Generation from Staff Web Site

I am experimenting with a method for generating PDF versions of reports and documents from the Staff web site. Right now customers can try this out from the document and report pages associated with the Building, Zoning, and Violations databases. In each of these pages you'll find variants of the standard documents or reports that have a "pdf" tag. Viewing these documents you'll see the option to create either a "Saved" or "Temporary" PDF version of the document. The temporary version can be downloaded or printed. The saved version creates a PDF file that is stored in a special folder in your ZP SQL internet account. This file can be viewed from the Document or Report main page from that point on. One obvious next step is to make it easy to email these PDFs as links or attachments. I've also thought about making it possible to upload files directly to the special PDF folder. If you have any ideas about making this feature more useful please share them with me.

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