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 Anupama Palakaluri (AnupamaP5564)
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Posted: May 30, 2017
Last activity: Oct 16, 2018
Posted: 30 May 2017 8:47 EDT
Last activity: 16 Oct 2018 12:03 EDT
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Different footer for first page of PDF - PDF generation using HTMLTOPDF OOTB activity

I have a requirement to set different footer message for the 1st page and different footer for the remaining pages of PDF.

I am using HTMLTOPDF OOTB activity to generate PDF from Correspondence rule(which consists of HTML code).

Is there any way to set different footer(messages) across pages using HTMLTOPDF activity..?

Could any one please suggest something else..OR

confirm (no way of providing different footers across pages of PDF) from PEGA side.

Note: We are using Pega 7.1.9 version

Thanks

Anupama P

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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 30 May 2017 21:24 EDT
Naveen Kumar Gattupally (Naveen Naanu)
Vodafone
Senior Manger
Vodafone
IN

Hi Anupama, 

Thanks for posting your query on PSC :)

Technical perspective, Pega uses PDML4.jar to convert the HTML Markup to PDF (This is the basic thing happens in the background). Considering your business requirement, request you to design the HTML fragment as per your need and pass the markup to HTMLTOPDF activity. This is the way system has been designed, there is no automotive way to reach your requirement. 

Thanks,
Best regards,
Naveen

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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 31 May 2017 6:50 EDT
Anupama Palakaluri (AnupamaP5564)
CapGemini
Consultant
CapGemini
IN

Thanks for your suggestions,

In my requirement, PDF content  is not static one. Content may change dynamically based on some properties of clipboard.

So, i can't go for creating two different PDF's with different footers.

Could any one please suggest something else..OR

confirm (no way of providing different footers across pages of PDF) from PEGA side.

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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 12 Oct 2017 23:55 EDT
Mahesh Sawant (Mahesh_Sawant)
ANZ Banking Group Ltd
LSA
ANZ Banking Group Ltd
AU

Hi Anupama,

Please find the below HTML stream which will be used to generate the different Header and footer and it need to pass PD4ML Library  to generate the PDF

 

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Hi Anupama,

Please find the below HTML stream which will be used to generate the different Header and footer and it need to pass PD4ML Library  to generate the PDF

 

<%
//  Code to get the PDF Page Document Count // 
  String strRelatedCase = tools.getProperty(".DUmmyProp").toString();
 
int index ;
String strValue;
String strValue2;
 
//handling null pointer exception when there are no documents for the Application.
if("".equals(strRelatedCase)){
    index = 0;
  }else{
    index = Integer.parseInt(strRelatedCase);   
   }
 
index= index + 1;
  
strValue ="2-"+ index;
 
index = index+ 1;
 
strValue2 = index + "+";
 
%>
 
 
 
<pd4ml:page.header pagesToSkip='0' areaHeight='180' scope='1'>
<pega:include name = "Header Corr Name"  type="Rule-Obj-Corr" />
    
</pd4ml:page.header>
 
<pd4ml:page.footer pagesToSkip='0' areaHeight='250' scope='1'>
   <pega:include name = "Footer Corr name "  type= "Rule-Obj-Corr" />
</pd4ml:page.footer>
  
 
<html>
<head>
<h1>Title</h1>  
</head>
<body>
 
 
  
 <BR>
 
  <pd4ml:page.header pagesToSkip='1' areaHeight='-1'>  
</pd4ml:page.header>
    
<pd4ml:page.footer pagesToSkip='1' areaHeight='-1' scope=<%=strValue%>>
  <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10px;"> <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Page $[page]</span> </span></p>
  
<BR></pd4ml:page.footer> 
  
  
  <pd4ml:page.footer pagesToSkip='1' areaHeight='-1' scope=<%=strValue2%>>
    <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Page $[page] </span></span></p>
 
<BR></pd4ml:page.footer> 
  
   // Add the PDF contnet here in HTML FOrmat 
   
 
  
</body>
</html>
 
 

  


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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 12 Oct 2017 23:57 EDT
Mahesh Sawant (Mahesh_Sawant)
ANZ Banking Group Ltd
LSA
ANZ Banking Group Ltd
AU

Java Code to Generate PDF :
 

try{
  
String sContent=sHtml;
  
org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML pd4ml = new org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML();

//pd4ml.resetAddedStyles();  
pd4ml.setPageInsetsMM(new java.awt.Insets(10, 21, 0, 16));
pd4ml.enableImgSplit(false); 
java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream os=new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
java.io.InputStream is=new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(sContent.getBytes());
java.io.InputStreamReader ris=new java.io.InputStreamReader(is);
pd4ml.setCookie("JSESSIONID",JSESSIONID);
pd4ml.setCookie("Pega-RULES",PEGARULES);
pd4ml.useTTF(FontsProp,false);
java.net.URL base=new java.net.URL(BASEURL);  
pd4ml.enableDebugInfo() ;
  pd4ml.protectPhysicalUnitDimensions();
pd4ml.render(ris,os,base);

byte[] byteArray=os.toByteArray();
  
       // Action == Preview
       if (Action.equalsIgnoreCase("Preview")){
              String sPDF=Base64Util.encodeToString(byteArray);
              ClipboardPage workpage = tools.findPage("pyWorkPage");
              workpage.putString("PDFDocument",sPDF);
       }
  
  else {
                    tools.putParamValue("PDFDocument",byteArray);
       }      

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Java Code to Generate PDF :
 

try{
  
String sContent=sHtml;
  
org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML pd4ml = new org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML();

//pd4ml.resetAddedStyles();  
pd4ml.setPageInsetsMM(new java.awt.Insets(10, 21, 0, 16));
pd4ml.enableImgSplit(false); 
java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream os=new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
java.io.InputStream is=new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(sContent.getBytes());
java.io.InputStreamReader ris=new java.io.InputStreamReader(is);
pd4ml.setCookie("JSESSIONID",JSESSIONID);
pd4ml.setCookie("Pega-RULES",PEGARULES);
pd4ml.useTTF(FontsProp,false);
java.net.URL base=new java.net.URL(BASEURL);  
pd4ml.enableDebugInfo() ;
  pd4ml.protectPhysicalUnitDimensions();
pd4ml.render(ris,os,base);

byte[] byteArray=os.toByteArray();
  
       // Action == Preview
       if (Action.equalsIgnoreCase("Preview")){
              String sPDF=Base64Util.encodeToString(byteArray);
              ClipboardPage workpage = tools.findPage("pyWorkPage");
              workpage.putString("PDFDocument",sPDF);
       }
  
  else {
                    tools.putParamValue("PDFDocument",byteArray);
       }      

 
  
}catch(Exception e){
  
  throw new PRRuntimeException(e.toString());
}


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Posted: 6 years ago
Posted: 7 Aug 2018 17:26 EDT
Jeremiah Moody (J.Moody)
Stratosphere Consulting
Jeremiah Moody
Stratosphere Consulting
US

Hi Mahesh,

1.what/how are you setting  JSESSIONID, PEGARULES and BASEURL strings?

2. are you able to get images to show up in your implementation?

 

THanks!

 

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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 31 Jan 2018 16:43 EST
Kyle Gravel (KyleG173)
FrontierBPM

FrontierBPM
US

Hi Mahesh,

Did you implement this using HTMLToPDF Activity? 

If so, could you provide details of how you passed this to the activity?

I am simply trying to hide the header/footer if ${page} = 1, but that is appearing like an impossible feat.

Thanks,

Kyle

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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 25 Jul 2017 19:58 EDT
Nizamuddin Mohammed (NizamuddinM)
Agora Group

Agora Group
IN

I have the similar requirement. I have used PD4ML function to implement this functionality. Place the footer in the HTML stream as below. This code has to be placed before the HTML tag or immediately after the body opening.  
<pd4ml:page.footer scope="1">

 First page footer
</pd4ml:page.footer>

 

<pd4ml:page.footer scope="2+">

Second page footer
</pd4ml:page.footer>

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 24 Aug 2017 7:39 EDT
Istvan Szabo (IstvanSz)
msg-systems

msg-systems
DE

Hi NizamuddinM,

I have attempted your solution, however, I did not manage to achieve the result of having different Footers for first page and the rest, nor to display footer only from the second page.

I tried the following (in both Pega Personal Edition 7.3 on Win7 and Pega 7.2 on Ubuntu):

Basic Setup: Custom pxCreatePDF Activity (in order to Property-Set-HTML param.pyPDFFooterHTMLTemplate and param.skipCommit=true), called by utility shape. PDF Content fed by HTML Rule, named "PdfHtml", (generate for JSP, see below) including my Section also in this activity, assigned into param.HTMLStream.

<!-- tried calling pd4ml here without pyPDFFooterHTMLTemplate being set -->
<html>
  <title>
  a
  </title>
  <body>
    <!-- tried calling pd4ml here without pyPDFFooterHTMLTemplate being set -->
    <pega:include name="mypdfcontentsection" type="Rule-HTML-Section" />
  </body>
</html>

HTML Rule, named "PdfHtmlFooter", (generate for JSP) for pyPDFFooterHTMLTemplate is:

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Hi NizamuddinM,

I have attempted your solution, however, I did not manage to achieve the result of having different Footers for first page and the rest, nor to display footer only from the second page.

I tried the following (in both Pega Personal Edition 7.3 on Win7 and Pega 7.2 on Ubuntu):

Basic Setup: Custom pxCreatePDF Activity (in order to Property-Set-HTML param.pyPDFFooterHTMLTemplate and param.skipCommit=true), called by utility shape. PDF Content fed by HTML Rule, named "PdfHtml", (generate for JSP, see below) including my Section also in this activity, assigned into param.HTMLStream.

<!-- tried calling pd4ml here without pyPDFFooterHTMLTemplate being set -->
<html>
  <title>
  a
  </title>
  <body>
    <!-- tried calling pd4ml here without pyPDFFooterHTMLTemplate being set -->
    <pega:include name="mypdfcontentsection" type="Rule-HTML-Section" />
  </body>
</html>

HTML Rule, named "PdfHtmlFooter", (generate for JSP) for pyPDFFooterHTMLTemplate is:

<pd4ml:page.footer scope="2+">
footer content
</pd4ml:page.footer>
<!-- also tried adding html and body tags here with pd4ml being called outside html or inside body -->
<!-- also tried using <pd4ml:footer pagesToSkip="1"> -->

I'm expecting to see 'footer content' only from page 2.

Actual behaviour:

pd4ml tags seem to make absolutely no difference (nor pd4ml:page.footer nor pd4ml:footer).

If tags are set in the PdfHtml, in the places mentioned in my comments: footer is displayed as placed in the text, before everything, once (not in footer zone). PegaPE 7.3 also displays in the Startup CMD: "Error <pd4ml:page.footer> is not recognized!" or "Error <pd4ml:footer> is not recognized!". Couldn't find the error in any logs for Pega 7.2.

If tags are set in PdfHtmlFooter, no errors as above are shown, but:

<pd4ml:footer pagesToSkip="1"> footer is displayed on all pages, regardless of tag

<pd4ml:page.footer scope="2+"> footer is not displayed at all

What am I missing?
Do you have any idea what I could further try? I'm open to suggestions.

Best Regards,

Istvan

 


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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 21 Dec 2017 5:24 EST
Anupama Palakaluri (AnupamaP5564)
CapGemini
Consultant
CapGemini
IN

Hi Istvan,

I am also facing the same issue, did you find any solution for this..? Please let me know

<pd4ml:footer pagesToSkip="1"> footer is displayed on all pages, regardless of tag

<pd4ml:page.footer scope="2+"> footer is not displayed at all

 

Thanks

Anupama

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Posted: 7 years ago
Posted: 21 Dec 2017 10:32 EST
Marissa Rogers (MarissaRogers)
MOD
Principal Knowledge Management Specialist
Pegasystems Inc.
US
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