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[Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds good. Yes I have seen a lot of forms coming out of the great MS Word
-> HTML converter - can be an interesting task to clean up.

Lars


On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:59 PM, David Hagan <david.hagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
>>
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>> Lars Helge Øverland
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>> University of Oslo
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