New Experimental PDF function and nested galleries

(1) Share

Report

Posted on by Digital

1,207

I'm playing with the new PDF generator function. One of the limitiations is it can't handle nested galleries.

I would like to produce a report grouped by Observation number. An observation can have a number of associated images. I tried addinng my images to an addeded column and hoped to use this to display the images in a nested gallery. I'm wondering if there's a way round this without using a nested gallery so I can produce a report in the following format:

Observation 1: Observation Name

Submitted by: Me

Urgent: Yes

IMAGES:

----------

Image 1

Image 1 Comment

Image 2

Image 2 Comment

Observation 2: Observation Name

Submitted by: Me

Urgent: Yes

IMAGES:

----------

Image 1

Image 1 Comment

Image 2

Image 2 Comment

Image 3

Image 3 Comment

Categories:

Building Power Apps

I have the same question (0)

All responses (8)

Answers (0)

TheRobRush 11,128 Moderator on at

Like (0)

Report

I have only played with the PDF() function a bit, but how about replacing the parts that would be a separate nested gallery with controls that have LookUps for their values

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
TheRobRush 11,128 Moderator on at

Like (0)

Report

Also a little annoying that you cant use the add media control to display images in the print. But can display pen input captures, and images loaded into the app beforehand. Have to assume as they continue to develop the function a lot of this will become available to us

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Digital 1,207 on at

Like (0)

Report

@TheRobRush , cheers for the advice. I was thinking I could create a html template for my report and place inside a container, which I could use for the PDF source, however the deal breaker for me is it doesn't appear to be able to display images hosted in a SharePoint library.

I wanted to display images from a SharePoint doc lib in the PDF but seems images need to be saved to the app. Images uploaded to my app are displaying in the PDF viewer but not those hosted in SharePoint library.

I feel being able to generate a PDF with multiple images, multiple pages and grouped data should be made available.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
TheRobRush 11,128 Moderator on at

Like (1)

Report

Check out @RezaDorrani 's video on what he has foudn out about the pdf function so far. I know he has a way to print images exterior to the app via a attachment collection coming from sharepoint. He's put in a lot of time testing the new function out and some of this might help you get to a solution. Video Here

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Digital 1,207 on at

Like (0)

Report

@TheRobRush , cheers, I watched that video but the images he included were from SharePoint list attachments. I don't think it works for images stored in a library.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
pchettri 39 on at

Like (1)

Report

Hi there , did you manage to create PDf for this ?
Im looking for something liket this, i have two gallery nested and wanted to create a PDF, if you can please help, im stuck.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
bevik 11 on at

Like (0)

Report

I managed to create a PDF using nested galleries. I adjust the template size of the Main gallery to only accomodate the needed information or data. Then below that is the nested gallery which I overlapped the height from the main gallery. The template size of the 2nd gallery is countrows * (your line size).

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Rodeep 2 on at

Like (0)

Report

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/reference/function-pdf

Was this reply helpful? Yes No