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Report Buidler Export reports to US Letter

 
Peter Pappas
Report Buidler Export reports to US Letter
by Peter Pappas - Monday, 9 November 2015, 11:40 PM
 

It appears that A4 is hard coded into the report builder export function for PDF files.

Am I missing something or is there a setting that this can be changed from the default A4 to US Letter?

Thank you,

Peter

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Re: Report Buidler Export reports to US Letter
by George Angus - Tuesday, 10 November 2015, 3:57 PM
Group Totara

Hi Peter,

There isnt a setting - but I can certainly submit an enhancement request for the option to be available.

regards,

George.

 

 

 

Peter Pappas
Re: Report Buidler Export reports to US Letter
by Peter Pappas - Tuesday, 10 November 2015, 11:18 PM
 

Thanks George,

 

It makes sense that this should be configurable.

What files would have to be changed to make the default US Letter?

Peter

Petr Škoda
Re: Report Buidler Export reports to US Letter
by Petr Škoda - Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 1:54 PM
 

Hello Peter,

in 2.7 branch and earlier the PDF export code is in totara/reportbuilder/lib.php, function download_pdf().

In 2.9 the PDF export is handled via plugins, see totara/core/tabexport/pdfportrait/classes/writer.php

Cheers,
Petr

Peter Pappas
Re: Report Buidler Export reports to US Letter
by Peter Pappas - Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 9:52 PM
 

Thank you Petr,

on a test server for 2.7 I found the layout options in totara/reportbuilder/lib.php, function download_pdf() and was able to change 'A4' to 'LETTER' (apparently capitalization is important). This will work for us. :)

Peter