Use question text to create a pdf report : send it by email, save in survey.
This plugin is currently compatible with LimeSurvey 3.X and 5.X version
- Go to your LimeSurvey Directory
- Change into subdirectory 'plugins'
- Clone in plugins/pdfReport directory
git clone https://gitlab.com/SondagesPro/ExportAndStats/pdfReport.git pdfReport
- Download https://extensions.sondages.pro/IMG/auto/pdfReport.zip
- Extract :
unzip pdfReport.zip - Move the directory to plugins/ directory inside LimeSurvey
- Create a upload question type
- Activate pdfReport : Use this question as pdf report. to Yes
- The pdf generated use the text of this question . You can use expression manager, and class and style to make a beautifull report.
- Remind the default system of this question are totally deactivated
- Pdf report are saved as files uploaded in survey
- Pdf is done and saved only when survey is activated, and when user submit the survey
- See other setting
You can use inline style in the content of the question text. For example, you can use <strong style='color:red;font-size:18pt'>A big and red sentence</strong>. Remind PDF is not web, usage of position:abolute or float didn't work exactly as excpected.
By default, the plugin use tcpdf and WriteHTML function. The plugin include a basic css file by default. You can replace the css included in the template used by the survey with a pdfreport.css in the files directory of the template.
See more example on tcdpf website : inline style or usage of a css file.
When using limeMpdf plugin, there are already some CSS class inspired by Bootstrap. See limeMdpf demo file for a lot of available class.
You can update more content with limeMpdf using files in your adapted theme templete files.
Tcpdf can use <br pagebreak="true" /> or <page> content </page> for page broke, you can use it in the content of the question text. HTML is filtered leaving this part.
LimeMpdf use <pagebreak> or <pagebreak /> directly, plugin is adpated to allow <br pagebreak="true" /> for pagebreak.
You can include image with <img src="/upload/files/picture.png" /> or with Data URI. All image are validated before included in the pdf and replaced by a white 1px size picture if not available. It's better to use local image (or DATA uri) for speedest generation of the pdf.
You can check two sample of pdf report:
- Pdf report simple test survey with picture and style
- Pdf Report with LimeMpdf and usage od Bootstrap CSS
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