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[Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

there is no easy/reliable way of converting HTML and CSS to Excel (except
of course going into the HTML rendering engine business). So in a less
ambitious approach, for custom HTML forms, the system look for a
well-formed HTML table and parses that into a grid which is subsequently
rendered as Excel / PDF.

So the current approach is to use a valid, well-formed HTML table as the
basis of your custom forms. You can validate your HTML here:

https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input


regards,

Lars


On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:26 AM, <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> From: Knut Staring
> Date: Mon Apr 11 2016 16:00:35 GMT+0530 (IST)
> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Possible bug? Saving a Dataset Report in Excel
> or PDF format
> To: David Hagan
> Cc: dhis2-devs
>
> Hi David,
>
> It seems the issue is with CUSTOM forms - it works well with the standard
> forms, is hard to realise for arbitrary custom forms. However, it may be
> possible if the forms are very well defined (however, they may then have to
> look very much like the generated forms).
>
> Knut
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:59 AM, David Hagan <david.hagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> I’ve tested it on https://play.dhis2.org/demo and there is no problem,
>> but we have a major country rolling out this month with the version below
>> and this is one of their outstanding issues.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:24 AM David Hagan <david.hagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have a production instance of DHIS2
>>>
>>> Version: 2.21
>>> Build revision: 21042
>>> Build date: 2016-03-02 17:01
>>>
>>> That exhibits the following symptoms.
>>> For ANY dataset report, downloading the PDF or Excel versions of the
>>> report displays the raw HTML. It’s like no conversion stylesheet has been
>>> applied.
>>>
>>> I’ve attached to downloads for reference. Is this a known issue? (I
>>> haven’t gone and checked it on demo … will go there next.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>
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Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
Skype: larshelgeoverland
http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>