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Posted on by LK-20051828-0 8
Hi, I recently started use the power apps with one project in mind.
 
The app has three screens, in the first you can visualize the items from a sharepoint list, which is the base of the whole project, you're able to change and insert new itens including one image per item.
 
At the second you can visualize a kind of preview of the pdf (that is where the problem starts), the structure is basically:

MainScreen1_1
|-ScreenContainer1_1
|   |-TableNameContainer1_1 (here we have a little "tittle bar" with the "back" btn and the generate btn)
|   |    |-btnGerar_1 (the generate btn)
|   |-BodyContainer1_1
|      |-InfoContainer (the important info is here)
|            |-HeaderRelatorio (shows the user, location and date
|            |-MainInfoRelatorio
|               |-PDFbody_1 (here the data is exibited, its a Vertical Gallery, inside of it we have the labels, with the data and the image)

When the btnGerar_1 is clicked, the app should creat a Pdf with the whole content from the Containers and Gallery, but he is doing a kind of print, it only gets the info that is actually being visualized on the screen
btnGerar_1 has the following code:
 
Set(varPDF; PDF(
    InfoContainer; {
        ExpandContainers: true;
        Orientation: PaperOrientation.Landscape;
        Size: PaperSize.A4;
        Margin: "10pt, 25pt, 10pt, 25pt";
        DPI: 100
    }));;
 
Notify("O PDF foi gerado com sucesso!"; NotificationType.Success);;
 
Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2(
    "email@example.com.br";
    "PDF teste";
    "Segue PDF Rel teste";{Attachments:
        Table({Name:"PDFhealthCheck.pdf"; ContentBytes:varPDF
        })});;
 
Notify("O Email com sucesso!"; NotificationType.Success);;


Can somebody help me? or give some ideia?

Tks,
 
DK.
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  • MS.Ragavendar Profile Picture
    MS.Ragavendar 6,312 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
     
    Share the visual layout of the screen.
     
    Instead of the refer container kindly refer the BodyContainer1_1.
     
     
    🏷️ Please tag me @MS.Ragavendar if you still have any queries related to the solution or issue persists.
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  • LK-20051828-0 Profile Picture
    LK-20051828-0 8 on at
    @MS.Ragavendar this is the layout.
    I tried to use the BodyContainer1_1 directly and the generated PDF still only with the info that is been visualized on the screen.
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    MS.Ragavendar Profile Picture
    MS.Ragavendar 6,312 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
     
    My Layout,
     
    Actual Form resides in the View_FormContainer
     
     
     
    PDF Generation Code 
     
     
    Can you replicate a similar like this, I am not facing any issues. 
     
    🏷️ Please tag me @MS.Ragavendar if you still have any queries related to the solution or issue persists.
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  • MS.Ragavendar Profile Picture
    MS.Ragavendar 6,312 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
     
    A quick follow-up to see, does the suggestion worked for you or still you were looking for any other approaches or assistance.
     
    🏷️ Please tag me @MS.Ragavendar if you still have any queries related to the solution or issue persists.
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  • LK-20051828-0 Profile Picture
    LK-20051828-0 8 on at
     
    Sorry, I was busy yesterday, but still not working.
     
    I think it's a limitation on the PDF(), it seems to only saves on the file what the sreen render.
    I tried to use the View_FormContainer and also a html text, all of them returned the same error,
     
    Do u have any ideias?
     
    Tks,
    Dk.
  • Craig.Engbrecht Profile Picture
    Craig.Engbrecht 18 on at
    Hello LK-20051828-0, 



    I have run into this issue too with many different caveats. 



    For my PDF's I use a flow, but the input to the email should be the same. 

    For my single page details, I use a gallery inside of a container. 

    Its named this for reference, but probably not important: AttendanceFormtoPDF_con_PDFAreaSelector



    This is then what I use to ship it off to the flow: 
     
    UpdateContext({
    lclBlob:
    PDF(AttendanceFormtoPDF_con_PDFAreaSelector, {Margin: "7mm"})
});

Notify( "Saving to SharePoint.", NotificationType.Information, 15000);
Base64toPDF.Run(
    {
        name: colPrintTimesheet.FileName,
        contentBytes: lclBlob
    },
    colPrintTimesheet.FileName,
    colPrintTimesheet.'Full Name',
    colPrintTimesheet.Title,
    Text( colPrintTimesheet.'Timesheet Date', "yyyy-mm-dd"),
    colPrintTimesheet.Department,
    " ",
    {
        text_3:
        "Timesheet"
    }
);
     

    For our multi page PDF (Multi page here being a misnomer... Its really one SUPER long page encompassing the number of items we want as pages. )

    We use this code: 

    What this does is set the height of the template to the height of one page, and the total gallery height to the height of a page times the number of pages we need ( Or number of Time Summaries ).
    UpdateContext({
    lclShowPDF:
        false
});
UpdateContext({
    lclPrintSettings:
        true, 
    lclPDFSettings:
    {
        Height: 11 * 96,
        Width: 8.5 * 96
    },
    /*
        Formats the Print area to be the size of the pages multiplied by the number of rows when printing
    */
    lclTSPDFHeight: CountRows(colShiftTimecards) * ( If( CountRows(colShiftTimecards) < 2, 11, 11.4 ) * 96),
    /*
        Formats the Template Height to one full pages based on DPI
    */
    lclTSPDFHeightTemplate:
        (11.4 * 96),
        
    lclTSPDFWidth:
        (8.5 * 96)
});

UpdateContext({
    mergedPDF:
        PDF(
            TimeSummariestoPDF_gal_ShiftInformation,
            {
                DPI: gblPDFSettings.DPI,
                Margin: gblPDFSettings.Margin,
                Orientation: gblPDFSettings.Orientation,
                Size: gblPDFSettings.PaperSize,
                ExpandContainers: gblPDFSettings.ExpandContainers
            }
        )
});

Select( TimeSummariestoPDF_btn_PageSizing );
     
     
     
    Once that has been adjusted it sends it to a different version of the flow, as I wasn't certain at the time if it was going to be a single blob, or many. 

    I could have iterated through the items, but it never would have worked to join them after without a third party plugin. 



    For that second example, we only print the gallery ( TimeSummariestoPDF_gal_ShiftInformation ), as nested galleries don't work. 





    If you'd like to know more, please let me know. :) 
  • LK-20051828-0 Profile Picture
    LK-20051828-0 8 on at
     
    If you could show me more, I would really appreciate,
     
    Tks
  • Craig.Engbrecht Profile Picture
    Craig.Engbrecht 18 on at
    Hello LK-20051828-0,

    What would you like to see more of? 
    What do you think is missing from the information? 

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