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BlueRose Technology
NL
Last activity: 25 Jul 2025 9:45 EDT
Generating PDF in constellation Application.
Do we have any component to generate the PDF using views in the Constellation application >
Updated: 23 Jul 2025 6:48 EDT
Pegasystems Inc.
PL
HTML to PDF in the Infinity platform continues to work for Constellation applications as well. So you can generate PDF out of sections. You would need to create those sections converting what you have on Views and adjusting to how PDF should look like.
Since PDFs generally need a very custom layout and organization, HTML is a better tool (than JSON definition of a View) for generating the PDF medium. As of now, we do not plan to convert Views to PDFs. There are JS libraries generating PDF from HRML both client and server side.
BlueRose Technology
NL
@Kamil JaneczekThanks a lot for the quick response.
BlueRose Technology
NL
@Kamil Janeczek Link shared by you is not accessible- Pegasystems Documentation
Pegasystems Inc.
PL
@Rahul Tokythanks for pointing out. I edited my previous message.
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
@Rahul Toky long time no speak!
in addition to this there are market place components that help provide a scalable framework for managing documents.
This is more for wider benefit, as I believe you have seen a variation of this implementation on your current client (or the one we worked on together a few years back). It uses data objects and paragraph rules to structure your content and pd4ml to style it correctly.
So basically Constellation doesn't change how you approach PDF generation.
BlueRose Technologies
GB
@MarcCheongYes i remeber this Component we worked toagther With Rasim.
Indeed a great component to be used.
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
@VivekS0329 yes, it has been used by many projects, some not even knowing it was packaged in this component (but using the same architectural approach with different data objects to manage different elements of the PDF). I am a big fan.