Generate PDF export as accessible URL
Generate PDF export as accessible URL
DanielSC
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Hello!
I was wondering if there's any way to make the PDF exports from Datatables generate as an accessible and shareable URL rather than a blob?
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No, as it needs to run the code to generate the file, it needs to be a blob rather than a simple URL.
Colin
Thank you for your response @colin, I am sorry to hear it is't possible. Would it be possible to generate a link containing the information for the PDF generation that could then the passed and generated as a blob?
You could do something like this here perhaps. The link is triggering the PDF button, which has been hidden in
initComplete,Colin
@colin From what I can see the example simply downloads the PDF file as per usual. Where do you see the link?
The link is partially obscured by "run with js".
@tangerine I see the link to "http://live.datatables.net/runner" but this link doesn't store the contents of the PDF so I assume thats not it?
That's right, as I said before, you can't do the blob, so this was an alternative. This thread also talks about blobs, so very similar to what you wanted.
Colin
@colin I see. From what I gather its not possible to pass the table data in a URL
The pdf specifically? As I mentioned in the other thread, you'd need to make a small change to the library to get the Blob and then URL encode it. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that though - just host the pdf file on a server somewhere? The URL would be massive.
Allan