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MikeGillMikeGill 

using Jquery with Visualforce page renderas PDF

Hi All,

 

I'm using jquery to toggle a logo static resource - all works fine, but as soon as I add renderas="PDF" the logo does not load...

 

    <script src="{!URLFOR($Resource.jquery)}" type="text/javascript"></script>
        
    </head>
    <body>
      <table width="100%" border="0" class="addressheader">
        

        
        
                         <tr>
                      <td>
                          <img src='' Height="51" Width="204" title="logo" id='divisionImage' /> 
                        
                        <input type='hidden' id='divisionCode' value='UK' />  
                       
                            <br/>
                            <br/>
                        
                                <script>
          $(document).ready(function() {
            // The minute the page loads, perform this action.
            // get the value used to determine which image to display
            whichCode = $('#divisionCode').val();
          
            if(whichCode == 'IE') $('#divisionImage').attr('src','{!URLFOR($Resource.WRLogo)}');
            else $('#divisionImage').attr('src','{!URLFOR($Resource.WRLogo)}');
  
            });
        </script>

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
bob_buzzardbob_buzzard

This is because when the content is rendered as PDF it doesn't go through the browser's javascript engine.  Rather the browser will use an appropriate plugin etc to display the content.  I've hit this a few time with javascript charting - I've got around this by opening the page in Google chrome, opening the print dialog and choosing save as PDF.

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MikeGillMikeGill

Ok, I think this approach is wrong as renderas PDF happens server side and therefore no javaScript is executed????
bob_buzzardbob_buzzard

This is because when the content is rendered as PDF it doesn't go through the browser's javascript engine.  Rather the browser will use an appropriate plugin etc to display the content.  I've hit this a few time with javascript charting - I've got around this by opening the page in Google chrome, opening the print dialog and choosing save as PDF.

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bob_buzzardbob_buzzard

Cross post!
MikeGillMikeGill

The penny dropped, was getting carried away. So no javascript!

 

Using the browser print is probably not going to fly with the client.

 

I was trying to escape having three buttons and pages i.e. UK, IE & NI.

 

Think I'm going to go with something like this - Onclick javascript button which opens the relevent visualforce page - what do you think?
bob_buzzardbob_buzzard

Do you know the details server side, or in a way that you can use to conditionally render one of the three logos?  
MikeGillMikeGill

Hi Bob,

 

Did this in the end.

 

x3 Visualpages

x1 Custom forumula field with case statement wrapped around division and outputs the url /apex/PDF_UK for example

x1 Custom button - display in new window content source url {!URLFOR( Opportunity.Url__c )}{!Opportunity.Id}

 

I tried to call the static resource in the formula field., but couldn't crack it.