Making the Details Downloadable for Users

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You can easily enable data download for your details page of DataPages in Details, Pivot Tables, Combined Charts, Reports and Calendars in a PDF format.

Edit your Report or Calendar DataPage.
Navigate to Details Page Options screen.
In the Download Options section, select the PDF download option check box.
To configure PDF settings, click the edit icon after you selected the PDF check box. You can easily customize the following options:
- The PDF display settings such as header and footer, margins, page orientation.
- In header and footer use PDF specific system parameters [@cbDataPageName], [@cbPageNumber] and [@cbTotalPages] to show the DataPage name, page number and total number of pages.
- The default behavior of the download link: Download or Open in browser (to preview the document before download or print).

Additional notes about PDFs generated from details page of DataPages

Editable fields are converted to display only fields. If you have custom form elements in an HTML block, they will not be converted to display only elements.
Password, CAPTCHA, asterisks for required field label, are not showed in PDF.
Value entered in a detail page will not be shown in the downloaded PDF if it is not saved.
Unicode characters such as extended Latin characters, symbols, emoji or non-Latin characters may look different in the downloaded PDF.

Note: PDF Report Generation is available in select plans. For more information, see Caspio pricing and plans.