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3/18/2009 4:56 AM
 

 AFAIR, DMX from www.bring2mind.net has the feature to display download files as PDF as well.


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Sebastian Leupold

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3/18/2009 8:57 AM
 

The only downside to Web2PDF (talked about in Mamlin's blog) is that it can only do public pages - if the page is behind the log-in it won't work.

Another option is a DNN module called Save To PDF.  Although the standard version of the module can only do public pages as well but the professional version can do private pages.  The only downside there is the professional version is a bit expensive.

http://www.snowcovered.com/Snowcovered2/Default.aspx?tabid=242&PackageID=10056

Greg

 
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3/18/2009 11:15 AM
 

On my search quest, I found this site:

http://www.onyaktech.com/Products/BrowseAllDNNModulesandSkins/tabid/373/CategoryID/0/List/1/Level/a/ProductID/110/Default.aspx?SortField=UnitCost%2cProductName

 

Have anyone using its product? The description is very promising, but their web site look very unprofessional, so I am very reluctant

 
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3/18/2009 11:58 AM
 

delphiman wrote
I have a PDF certificate template with the name and date are blank. I am looking for a module that allow me to pull the name and data from the database to fill in the certificate then user can print out this certificate.

Does anyone know what a good module can do such thing?

Thanks


 
delphiman-
I've done sites that generated dynamic online certificates.  I think you'll have an easier time if you first generate all of the certificate content as HTML and then offer a means to convert it to PDF (for those who want to download) or simply print from the browser window.  If you need a really secure system I'd recommend looking into using SQL Reporting Services for generating your certificate as you have a lot of access/security options and can embed programming code directly into the certificate.  You'd need a Reporting Services report module to display such reports.

If your DNN site is in a shared-hosting environment then Reporting Services is probably not an option.  In that case, you can use the combination of a Text/HTML module along with a SQL query module (several free ones available) to dynamically create a certificate within a DNN page.  Your Text/HTML would be the document template with all content except the dynamic data fields.  For those, insert SPAN tags with unique ID attribute values and then use the SQL module to query the data from the DB and insert the results into the appropriate SPAN tags via javascript's "getElementById" method.  This is similar to using tokens in the Text/HTML module except that you're retriving and inserting the token values yourself.
 
If you have a "forms" modules with the right capabilities, you can do everything with just a forms module.  XMOD can do all I've described all by itself (though you need to know a trick or two regarding querying data from tables outside of XMOD's own data tables).
 
As for providing a means to print ONLY the certificate from the screen, I like to set up a "certificate" page with a blank skin (no header, no footer, no menu, etc) and hide the page so that it does not appear in the menu.  I give the user a link to this page and set the link to open in a new window.  The user clicks the link, the certificate opens all by itself in a new browser window and the user prints using the browser's print option.  This method has worked very well for the clients I've set it up for (as good or better than integrating secure Reporting Services, in fact).
 
Here's a posting with an example of using a free "SQL" module to query the DB and return HTML to the DNN page:
 
   http://www.eguanasolutions.com/DNN_Blog/EntryID/13.aspx
 
That example returns plain HTML links but you can return javascript within SCRIPT tags in the same manner.
 
 
Digest that and post back any questions you have.  Good luck!
-mamlin


esmamlin atxgeek.me
 
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3/18/2009 12:13 PM
 

Duc Minh Nguyen wrote
I read an entry here. It might be interesting to you.

 

http://www.eguanasolutions.com/DNN_Blog/EntryID/27.aspx 


 
Rodney Joyce wrote
Yes! Thats the site I was thinking about - Mamlin has some great tools...

Thanks for the mentions, Duc and Rodney!  It's always nice to learn/affirm that some posted content is interesting to others.

Cheers-
-mamlin


esmamlin atxgeek.me
 
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