<pdflink>

This tag renders as a link or button the user can click to download a PDF version of the page. The following advanced attributes are available for use:

<pdflink> attributes
Attribute	Allowed Values	Requirements	Description
attachment-fields	Text	Optional	Defines a list of WebEOC Nexus attachment fields, contents of which will be appended to a generated PDF document. List of fields has to be separated with comma attachments-fields="attachmentfield1, attachmentfield2" and <attachment name="attachmentfield1"> element for each field in the list has to be present in the view. Attachments will be appended to PDF document in the order they are listed attachments-fields attribute. Supported attachment types are: BMP GIF JPEG PDF PNG TIFF This functionality is limited only to a details view.
child-attachments-fields	Text	Optional	Defines a list of WebEOC Nexus child records attachment fields. When specified, attachments from child records will be appended to the generated PDF. To be able to append attachments to the PDF document: The <relatedlist /> has to be configured and present in the view. Only those attachments which are specified in the <relatedlist /> may be appended to the PDF document. child-attachments-table has to be specified and match <relatedlist /> table.
child-attachments-table	Text	Optional	Defines a list of WebEOC Nexus child records attachment fields. When specified, attachments from child records will be appended to the generated PDF. To be able to append attachments to the PDF document: The <relatedlist /> has to be configured and present in the view. Only those attachments which are specified in the <relatedlist /> may be appended to the PDF document. child-attachments-table has to be specified and match <relatedlist /> table.
board	boardname	Optional	Name of the board that contains the view.
enablejs	(false\|true)false	Implied	Any JavaScript that runs on page load will run when true.
type	(button\|link)link	Implied	How the tag is rendered.
enablemediaquery	(false\|true)	Optional	Enables media query rule when rendering PDF.
enablewebkit	Text	Optional	Enables web kit rendering engine – handles html5, css3, and font awesome icons – for PDF documents. This is obsolete.
filename	Text	Optional	The name of the PDF file to be generated. If no file name then the default is "boarddata.pdf"
footerfloatx	Float	Optional	Starting x coordinate where the text renders in the footer.
footerfloaty	Float	Optional	Starting y coordinate where the text renders in the footer.
footerfontsize	Float	Optional	Font size of the footer text, measured in em font size units. If no font size is specified, the default font size is 1 em.
footertext	Text	Optional	Text of the footer. If no text is present, the footer is not shown. It is possible to show the current page number in addition to the total page number by using _currentpage and _pagecount respectively. See also, footerhtml.
headerfloatx	Float	Optional	Starting x coordinate where the text renders in the header.
headerfloaty	Float	Optional	Starting y coordinate where the text renders in the header.
headerfontsize	Float	Optional	Font size of the header text, measured in em font size units. If no font size is specified, the default font size is 1 em.
headerfootertextalign	(left\|center\|right\|justify\|default)left	Implied	Alignment of the text in the PDF's header and footer.
headertext	Text	Optional	Text of the header.
manual	(false\|true)	Optional	Defines if PDF printing will be invoked manually, by triggering wrapped BoardScript.StartPDFGeneration(), or natively through the ExpertPdfJSObj.startConversion() function. To have the map printed to PDF via the <embedmap> tag, the value must be true [WebEOC Nexuswith other manual, custom printing invoke tags (for example, if the board view printing is based on a manual flag, then the <embedtag> tag will break that functionality when printing to PDF).
orientation	(portrait\|landscape)portrait	Implied	PDF orientation. If not specified, the PDF's orientation is portrait.
type	(button\|link)link	Implied	How the tag is rendered.
view	%viewname	Optional	Name of the view (if different from the current view). If a board is not specified, WebEOC Nexus assumes the current board.
*	*	Optional	Passes any HTML attribute–except onclick and href–through to the rendered tag.
engine	Text	Optional	The PDF engine that is used. Two engines are available: Default Blink: Provides support for newer browser PDF rendering. The remaining features in this table require the Blink PDF engine to be used. Self-hosted clients must have the Google Chrome browser installed on their web server because Blink requires Chrome to create PDF files. If errors occur after installing Chrome, use the BlinkEnginePath setting in the web.config file to specify the path to the Chrome executable. Example: BlinkEnginePath="C:/Program Files/Google/Chrome/Application"
footerhtml	Text	Optional	An encoded HTML string that specifies the footer contents. To use this attribute, the Blink PDF engine must be used. This string overrides footertext. _currentpage and _pagecount are not supported. To use page numbers, use headertext and footertext.
headerhtml	Text	Optional	An encoded HTML string that specifies the header contents. Use True to enable it. To use this attribute, the Blink PDF engine must be used. This string overrides headertext. _currentpage and _pagecount are not supported. To use page numbers, use headertext and footertext.
fitwidth	Boolean	Optional	Scales the HTML content to fit the width of the page. If the HTML content is wider than the page, it is resized to fit within the page margin. Use True to enable it. To use this attribute, the Blink PDF engine must be used.
fitheight	Boolean	Optional	Scales the HTML content to fit the width of the page. If the HTML content is wider than the page, it is resized to fit within the page margin. Use True to enable it. To use this attribute, the Blink PDF engine must be used.
optimize memory	Boolean	Optional	Aids in lowering the memory usage by optimizing the way HTML content is processed and rendered. This setting is useful for large documents or environment with limited resources. To use this attribute, the Blink PDF engine must be used.
conversiondelay	Text	Optional	Adds additional time, in seconds, before Async items load. To use this attribute, the Blink PDF engine must be used.

Examples

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<pdflink type="button" orientation="landscape" 
headerfootertextalign="center" headertext="For Official Use Only" 
headerfontsize="12" footertext="Page _currentpage of _pagecount" 
footerfontsize="12">Print PDF<pdflink>

The PDF generated by the <pdflink> tag respects CSS page break properties.

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<table style="page-break-after:always">...</table>
<tr style="page-break-before:always">...</tr>
<td style="page-break-inside:avoid">...</td>