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[David Hagan <david.hagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Lars,

Yes, I’ve been looking at the HTML and throwing it at validators and ‘HTML
Tidy’. There are lot’s of nasty nested SPANs everywhere - would be good
(from our perspective) to factor these out as custom style elements … I
seem to remember we can load custom style sheets … so need to take a peek
at how to load those, and eliminate the errors that were in the forms.

Cheers

David

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:51 PM Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> 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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>>
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>> Knut Staring
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>>
>
>
>
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> Lars Helge Øverland
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> University of Oslo
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