Patch #10869: Add Full PDF output to issue summary list - Redmine

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Patch #10869

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Add Full PDF output to issue summary list

Added by Carl Nygard almost 12 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

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Description

The PDF output is very useful for providing information to outside stakeholders without requiring access to Redmine itself. This is very useful for progress reports and meetings. However, there is no way to output a set of issues with full details. Currently you only get the summary list, which just shows the Subject etc., or an individual PDF for an individual issue's full comment history.

This patch provides an additional 'Full PDF' option to the main issues summary page, which will output the issue summaries, followed by the detail for each of the issues selected.

This will obey current filters and only show what has been selected.

In order to implement this, some of the PDF export code was reorganized a bit to allow better re-use of the individual issue output functionality. Also, a new function was added to dispatch to the actual pdf generation function, depending on whether a normal summary or a full output was selected.

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FullPDF.pdf (327 KB) FullPDF.pdf	Sample PDF output	Carl Nygard, 2012-05-10 04:45
FullPDF.PNG (8.49 KB) FullPDF.PNG	Issues view screen shot	Carl Nygard, 2012-05-10 04:45
redmine-1.4.1-fullpdf.patch (5.42 KB) redmine-1.4.1-fullpdf.patch	patch file	Carl Nygard, 2012-05-10 04:45
footerError.png (19.7 KB) footerError.png	footer_error	Peter sørensen, 2012-06-27 13:18
footer.png (31.8 KB) footer.png	footer	Peter sørensen, 2012-06-27 13:18
redmine_context_pdf.zip (10.5 KB) redmine_context_pdf.zip	pdf context menu plugin	Peter sørensen, 2012-06-29 12:56
pdf-patch-fix.rb (28 KB) pdf-patch-fix.rb	added fix to fullpdf patch	Peter sørensen, 2012-07-09 13:27

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Updated by Cj Cagape almost 12 years ago

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Updated by Cj Cagape almost 12 years ago

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Updated by Terence Mill almost 12 years ago

THis is a nice ehancement adding desription field to pdf oouput table, but it is far not a complete ouput of all issue details.

A complete ouput is disussed here also: #6280

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Updated by Carl Nygard almost 12 years ago

What exactly is missing in issue details? Perhaps you should file a separate bug. This patch only reorganizes the existing code that generates the summary view and the individual issue view so that each can be called in turn for a collection of issues. This patch is not meant to change the information displayed in the PDF view, just to be able to output multiple individual issues into one PDF.

As well, I believe this patch would allow plugins to modify the individual output routines to provide different information, while maintaining the basic functionality for collecting and outputting a collection of issues.

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Updated by Guido Heymann almost 12 years ago

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Updated by Peter sørensen almost 12 years ago

File footerError.png footerError.png added
File footer.png footer.png added

when using this patch, to export many issues to 1 pdf, it seems the content of the issues dont get cut of when reaching the footer area of the page, but instead overlay the content and the footer, Note this ofcouse only happens when there is enough info under a issue to require more than one page.

footer_error

this does not happen when using the pdf export for a single issue

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Updated by Peter sørensen almost 12 years ago

File redmine_context_pdf.zip redmine_context_pdf.zip added

using Vitaly Klimov's Context menu watchers plugin, as inspiration I made a small plugin for 1.4, that uses this patch to add a pdf export option to the context menu, so that you can select individual issue out from the filter result and get a report made out from only those issue that is of interests.

if only 1 issue is select it calls the same exporter as is used on the Issue page, meaning that the summary is not included

Btw anyone have any idea to fix the bug I reported about this patch a few days ago?.

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Updated by Peter sørensen almost 12 years ago

File pdf-patch-fix.rb pdf-patch-fix.rb added

found a fix for the margin problem by inserting

+    breakMargin = pdf.GetBreakMargin
        issues_to_pdf_header(pdf, title, issues, project, query)
        issues_to_pdf_content(pdf, title, issues, project, query)
 +   pdf.SetAutoPageBreak(true, breakMargin)

as the problem was caused, by deactivating the autopagebreak when the index pages are being written, which at the same time at the margin for autobreak to zero

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