[Jordan Manningham]

Hi All,

I’ve been working on a project that requires generating a PDF which of course requires some knowledge of HTML and CSS. The part I’m stuck on requires some JavaScript though I’m not sure how to tie both languages together using [js]'


xml += '

'

xml += '

'
xml += ' '
xml += '

'
xml += '

'
xml += '

'
xml += '

'
xml += '

'
xml += '

'
xml += '

'
xml += '

'
xml += '

Bill of Materials
Item	Description	Quantity	Units

'
xml += '

'
xml += ''
xml += '';

response.renderPDF(xml); //TESTING WITH ITEM 6700-55
}
else{
dumpResponse(request,response);
}

}
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[david.smith]

I don’t think you want to try and put your script into the xml for the PDF. A PDF document is not able to modify itself like this. There are quite a few things here I would change but basically you will want your ‘xml’ to be the complete before rendering it. So use your ‘lines’ loop to create the table data as a string and then just insert that into the ‘xml’.

[Jordan Manningham]

david.smith You’re a genius. That makes so much sense and I’m jealous I didn’t think of it haha. Will make corrections to my code and report back. Thanks!

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david.smith replied on 02/02/2017, 02:54 PM: hahaha – shhhhhh, don’t tell anyone those kinda things.

Let me know how it goes.

[Jordan Manningham]

david.smith It worked like a charm!

Code:
//Components – Bill of Materials
var lines = o_r.getLineItemCount(‘member’);
var bom_string;
for (var mem = 1; mem <= lines; mem++){
components[mem – 1][0] = o_r.getLineItemText('member', 'item', mem);
components[mem – 1][1] = o_r.getLineItemValue('member', 'memberdescr', mem);
components[mem – 1][2] = o_r.getLineItemValue('member', 'quantity', mem);
components[mem – 1][3] = o_r.getLineItemValue('member', 'memberunit', mem);
bom_string += '

‘ + components[mem – 1][0] + ‘ ‘ + components[mem – 1][1] +
‘ ‘ +components[mem – 1][2] + ‘ ‘ + components[mem – 1][3] + ‘

‘;
}

while (bom_string.indexOf(‘ & ‘) != -1){
bom_string = bom_string.replace(‘ & ‘, ‘ & ‘);
}

while (bom_string.indexOf(‘null’) != -1){
bom_string = bom_string.replace(‘null’, ‘ ‘);
}

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david.smith replied on 02/17/2017, 09:37 AM: You could also try nlapiEscapeXML(bom_string).

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