Send response pdf in email

Thanks Denis...much appreciated!

Hi Denis...

I had a chance to play with pdfReport on a live survey over the weekend and its working great, thanks again! Based on this I had a couple of other questions that you might be able to help me with or point me in the right direction?

- does the email address input that the report is to be sent to have to be part of the survey? For example, we would like to have an 'Email me this report' input and button on the final page (as part of the 'End Message') after the survey has been submitted, is there any way to accommodate this functionality (i.e. use the button in the report to trigger pdfReport with the supplied email address)?

- the 'Print your answers' link appears at the very end of the report (after the 'End Message' text). Is it possible to move this link to precede the report or to again replicate its functionality from a custom 'Download your PDF' button within the report? I notice the link on the 'Print your answers' link is:


could this be used to replicate the 'Print your answers' functionality in a custom button placed in the 'End Message'?

Finally, the PDF generated by the report didn't handle background images very well (didn't show at all), reading the documentation on the pdfReport GitHub page it mentions adding images via:or with Data URI...do you know if there is some way to use background images? (I overlay the images to build up a visual representation of the relevant survey results and am not sure if there is a way to replicate this using <img> tags).

Hopefully these make sense but let me know if any further info required. Many thanks...Rick.

Dennis...cheers for the quick response and all your help on this.

Will have a look at your suggestion for the 'Print your answers' button and also add limeMpdf to see if that helps with image layering (I also tried absolutely positioned images but that didn't work for the PDF - they were just displayed sequentially).

Best...Rick.

Hi Denis...

I had a look at your suggested code addition but wondered, since the report (generated via the 'End Message' text) is displayed after the survey is submitted:

currently the pdf is done ONLY after survey is submitted

...could the report include a button that called 'doPdfReports()' or have the link I suggested previously (copied from the 'Print your answers.' link)?

Apologies if i am misunderstanding your suggestion above.

Cheers

...Rick.

Also...

How does limeMpdf integrate with pdfReport? Does it just have to be added to the plugins and activated to allow pdfReport to utilise Mpdf styling features? Or is limeMpdf used separately from pdfReport and do I then need to add something along the lines of the basic usage example code:


...if so, where would I place this code (in the 'Question' area of the File Upload question being used for the pdfReport)?

Again, apologies I am am misunderstanding your response.

Cheers...Rick.

Thanks Denis...I hadn't noticed the additional options in the question settings.

Did you also see the other follow-up question I posted above regarding the 'Print your answers.' funtionality (I added the line of code you suggested to pdfReport.php but didn't notice any difference)?
Copied below:

Hi Denis...

I had a look at your suggested code addition but wondered, since the report (generated via the 'End Message' text) is displayed after the survey is submitted:

currently the pdf is done ONLY after survey is submitted

...could the report include a button that called 'doPdfReports()' or have the link I suggested previously (copied from the 'Print your answers.' link)?

Apologies if i am misunderstanding your suggestion above.

Cheers

...Rick.

Denis...once again thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.

Just in case this helps you or anyone else.

I tried hard-coding the link into the report (via the survey 'End Message'):


...and it seems to work - obviously this would be survey specific because of the use of 'surveyid' but pretty sure there will be some way round that.

I added the limeMpdf plugin and it definitely helps with formatting (thank you) but I still haven't been able to get my images to overlay - since it displays fine on screen I am thinking a possible way round this might be to use html2pdf to dynamically generate the required overlaid image from the screen display and use this via mpdf (per its documentation):

Dynamically generated Images

You can define a script which generates an image just as you can in HTML:

<img src="/files/my_file_generating_script.php?color=red" />

Hopefully final question for you Denis is how can I force a landscape orientation for my PDF using pdfReport or limeMpdf?

Cheers...Rick.

Thanks for all the info Denis! We'd be very happy to try and hack landscape into pdfReport and share the results.

Could you tell us which file sets the page width for the PDF?

Hi Denis...

As an alternative (if there is currently no easy way to print landscape using pdfReport/limeMpdf) would it be possible to use the email functionality of pdfReport to send a PDF generated via html2pdf?

Cheers

...Rick.