That one has been asked for for a while, and we just added a plugin that let’s you do this. If you add the SelectPDF plugin, you’ll be able to experiment it.
The way it works is that you select a page that will be used to generate the PDF. You’ll find the action in the ‘Email’ section of the action menu.
If the page has a type of content, you can define a type of data to send. For instance, the way you would generate an invoice is by creating a thing of type invoice, and then design the pdf in a page called ‘invoice’ for instance. What the action returns is a link of a PDF file that you can use in links, emails, etc.
SelectPDF is a paid service so you’ll need to subscribe, but they let you have a key for free for a week to experiment.
One thing to note is that the page will be printed as pdf as a logged out user will see it, we don’t take into account privacy settings, logged in status, etc. We’ll fix that soon, but in the meantime keep this in mind.
Here the pricing (without VAT) from SelectPDF pricing page :
SelectPdf Online HTML to PDF API Pricing Entry Level: $19 USD/month (includes 2,000 conversions) – Buy now Standard Level: $29 USD/month (includes 5,000 conversions) – Buy now Enterprise Level: $59 USD/month (includes 20,000 conversions) – Buy now
I was using the Blockspring’s HTML to PDF block on a LIST of things (but not working due to the problematic Auth) :
I tried to use the new PDF Genration action but I can only use it for generating ONE PDF, which sadly is not the way I need it
@emmanuel As there is no loop available in Bubble, is it something then could be implemented for a list of things ? accessible with “Get data from external source” maybe ?
Not really, since a page can only take one thing, but elegy don’t you uses thing type that has a field that is a list of things? Then it solves your issue.
We are trying to print a pdf of a page (called Artwork) with images and text.
We have created a pdf icon on the Artwork page, which when clicked creates a new thing called PDF, with all the relevant fields (in the workflow) and then generates PDF from an internal page “pdf” which is designed as we want it to print.
How do we send the data from the Artwork page to the pdf page?
How do we show the pdf so that a user can decide to print it?
@lonetour I had the same question, and I think the answer is to create another workflow item that navigates to the URL as shown in the workflow screenshot below
After having created the PDF, what is the cleverest option to send it to the client? I can not attach it to an email in Bubble, right? And even the linking does not work in a Mail (at least with thunderbird and other provider | works with gmail though)
Okay found the bug: Different mail providers such as Thunderbird (works without problem in any webmailer) do not understand a link as a link without the https: in front. As a result they do not link it. Solution:
Maybe a potential change in the medium term since it is not very obvious.
One last question: Are the pdf’s stored forever on the amazon servers and can be called trough the same URL? Or is there a time limit?
