As a Builder I would like to be able to set up a workflow that on a Live App page, I could add a button to send the page as a PDF to an email address.
Scenario: We presently are able to Print a page and within our desktop Print to PDF, then email the PDF.
But, it would be great if you could configure a button that provided for email rules that attached a PDF of the displayed page.
Have you solved this ?
No smart solution from my side. Just manual save PDF and email.
Looking for this facility desperately. Further download as pdf button of the displayed page will be highly beneficial.
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Hello! If anyone has thought of other workarounds for this, I appreciate if you could share them 
Did you get any replies? I too need a simple āemail a pdf versionā of a page (eg supplier orders). Thanks, Calvin
Hi,
We did this in a different way. Sending pdf link in the email when user clicks it asks user to print or download pdf.
Itās just an HTML page with predefined design and dynamic values based on the record.
Regards,
Sunny Singla
ssingla1985@gmail.com
Hello, Sunny! Iām very interested in your approach but I didnāt quite get the idea. Can you explain a bit more? thanks!
Hello Nathalie,
Sure In this we can send an email with a link to Html page.
Like Click here to open pdf
When you click it ask you to print or save as pdf.
Regards,
Sunny Singla
Ahh I get it!
I think itās not suitable for my use case because I canāt put the information in a public linkā¦ Iād have to consider creating user accounts for the recipients, I guess.
Itās a great idea, though. Thank you!
Hello Natalia,
There is a way to encrypt as well. We can also make this password protected as well.
So based upon that password we can encrypt and decrypt.
itās up to you how to make this more secure.
Regards,
Sunny Singla
ssingla1985@gmail.com
I still would really like an email a pdf version of a page option.
Like you @AdrianBell27622 I am still looking at something better than just a page that saves and manually having to save and print to PDF. Also, I notice that the name of the file when I go to save the page is just the title of the page, now looking to see if I can change that too for ease of use.
Was also playing around with your suggestion @Sunny_Singla but for my application, we need a pdfed version anyway for audit, so really comes back to PLEASE can we have an āemail a pdf version of a pageā option?
Hello Calvin,
We can send HTML page links. On opening, we can either print or download pdf. But I donāt think we are able to send dynamic pdf directly using knack. Either we can use 3rd party API or a Custom server-side application.
Regards,
Sunny Singla
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I would like more information on how you set this up Sunny. Can you assist?
Hello Kim,
Sorry, for the delayed reply. I create a html page where we can send dynamic values using query string. and when the page load we call a print function which prints that HTML page(using button or directly after load).
see below url
we can make same url in knack as well .
Regards,
Sunny Singla
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Thank you Sunny! Havenāt gotten a chance to work on it but appreciate your quick response. 
Are you available for hire to help me create a PDF that is printable/downloadable like the one in this thread. Iāve got my app built but printing is a huge issue. I need to print about 5 different types of documents each time we dispatch one of our truck drivers. I have two different apps I will need this for but for now Iām just working on one trying to get it to work.
I was looking for something more like this @Sunny_Singla
Hello Anna,
Sure you can email me or add me on WhatsApp for further discussion.
Regards,
Sunny singla
ssingla1985@gmail.com
+919855089359
Hello Kim,
You need to create a html page and upload it into the knack object. If you want a simple print button then easy.
create a field in HTML like
and update values of fields using
var hrefContent = window.atob(decodeURIComponent(location.href.split(ā?ā)[1]));
var urlContent = hrefContent.split("&");
for (var x = 0; x < urlContent.length; x++) {
var obj = urlContent[x].split('=');
try {
var textcontrol = document.getElementById(obj[0]);
textcontrol.innerHTML = obj[1];
textcontrol.value = obj[1];
}
catch (err) {
console.log(obj);
}
}
Then last call window.print()
Regards,
Sunny Singla
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