As we all know, the infopath forms service residing on a sharepoint server generates a web site each time we publish an inforpath form template to the sharepoint server.
Here is the question: how does sharepoint do that. Is there any way for us to do that programmatically via some kind of api provided by MS?
In fact, what I need to do is getting all the html, js, css etc. files and applying some kind of operations like deleting some divs or insert some html code into the particular web page. I have come up with two ways to do this.
Generating the web page via sharepoint api and apply those operations at the same time
Extracting the web page files from the IIS server and apply those operations
I am totally new to this kind of work. All in my mind is that each time we right click on a web page in the browser and choose to save the web page, the browser gets some of the files we need to render the web page and makes it possible for us to browse the web page offline.
httrack
WinWSD
and tools like that seems to work fine with extracting html files from online web pages but not that well with js, css files.
Now I am trying to dig into the chromium project for some kind of inspiration, although whether it helps or not is unpredictable.
Any kind of advice will be appreciated.
Best Regards,
Jordan
Infopath xsn files are just zip files with a different extension. you can rename the extension to .zip and extract out the files. you will find a number of files that make up the form. the two main ones are the .xml and .xsl files. the .xsl will have the html to generate when applied to the xml.
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I'm looking for some recommendations on a solution to build dynamic PDFs using salesforce object data. We currently have a layout designed in photoshop, that we're looking to import into Salesforce and fill in various snippets/images based on data that lies within an object. The final product should come out as a PDF
I started building this using Adobe XFDF. I exported the PSD as a PDF and created a fillable form from it. This was then populated from an XFDF file generated from Salesforce. This does work but the design issues with fillable forms, requirement for acrobat pro on every system that uses it and the lack of support for referencing file templates that are not local have killed this. One of these issues alone wouldn't be deal breakers, but all 3 combined are too much to overcome.
While this is mostly all sorted out on the Salesforce side, I'm not sure of the best way to proceed with this when it comes to PDF generation, here are a couple of ideas that might work, but I don't have enough experience to be sure:
Generate HTML/CSS File from PSD file, upload to salesforce, modify html file within salesforce, send to PDF generation API - adobe api looks promising for this, but can I send over html and css files together to generate a single PDF?
Use Salesforce PDF tools to generate PDF, will need to modify visualforce page to the same design as reference design in PSD.
Use some sort of third party PDF generator tool that will allow me to reference my current design as a template.
I'm open to any suggestions, Thanks!
In salesforce, PDF can be generated without using any app. Check out the official document by Salesforce.
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pages.meta/pages/pages_output_pdf_renderas.htm
A quick start guide How to generate PDF in Salesforce
It does not require any purchase or separate license. If you are looking specifically an App, it can be found on app exchange.
https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxSearchKeywordResults?keywords=pdf%20generator
Hi Stack Overflow community,
I'm a bit of a noob here (please be gentle) and wanted to ask how to upload HTML/CSS + Packages in bulk to my site.
I'm familiar with the code injection/CSS editor within Squarespace, but something doesn't seem to be working.
To summarize, I received a bunch of files and was requested to upload them to the website I manage. These files contain:
HTML (by page)
CSS (by page)
image files
index.html
Scripts file (which include .js & .php
sitemap.xml
That being said, I know there is a lot of referencing between these files and wanted to know the best route in incorporating these into my site?
Thanks so much!
A quick way to upload multiple files is to use the (S)FTP protocol. You can use an FTP client such as FileZilla to upload files in bulk to your server.
However, I'm not quite sure if that's possible in your use case. Are you using Squarespace for your project? If so, it looks like you can use either Git or SFTP for file uploads. You'll need to have developer mode enabled for that, though.
I found this article that goes into uploading multiple files to Squarespace via their own upload system, does that help?
I'm making a webapp for members of my caving club to search through and view cave survey note PDFs. It works fine, and I got the AppCache working for the web version of it.
However, since the PDFs are quite large and slow to download, and many members have the PDFs on their local machines from the same SVN the website gets them from, it would be ideal for them to be able to use a page with links to a local SVN folder of their choosing.
The design goals:
The site displays links to PDF files on the local filesystem
Whenever I add features to the site, users get them automatically the next time they open the page and they're connected to the internet
But after the first time they open the page, the site works offline.
Sadly web browsers don't appear to support this useful combination of design goals at once.
I can satisfy #1 by having users download a copy of the site, add their local SVN path in a JS, and open their local copy in the browser, so that file:/// links work.
I can satisfy #2 by having absolute links to JS bundles on the server.
I can satisfy #3 by using the AppCache.
I thought I could get clever by having the copy of the page on the local file system have <html manifest="https://myserver.com/myapp.appcache">, but unfortunately Chrome doesn't seem to allow a local file to use an app cache manifest hosted on a server, for seemingly no good reason to me.
Does anyone know of another way I could satisfy all 3 goals?
Perhaps there's some simple program/config I could give my friends that would intercept web requests to https://myserver.com/some/folder and instead serve them out of a folder on their local file system?
Andy,
I know this post is a bit old but came across it looking for something else related to AppCache. My understanding it that the html page and the manifest must reside in the same domain for it to work. So I think you need to modify your design:
Create a JavaScript function that acts as a setting for the user to enter the path to their local copy of the PDF's. Store this information in localstorage.
Create a html template page for the document links.
Create a JavaScript function that populates the html template page with any documents and links the user enters.
This way, the users visit your application online and it uses appcache to store itself and the JS files for offline use. To access the PDF's, the user clicks a settings button that launches a page to collect path information and saves the information in localstorage. The users can then access the template page which will populate with the documents they entered.
Here is a good intro to localstorage: [http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/local-storage-and-how-to-use-it/]
My knowledge about Web technologies is very low and I just wanted to know if the following scenario would be possible with HTML5 and Javascript:
If I host an HTML file in Dropbox and send this link to seomeone, would it be possible that this HTML file creates a new file in my Dropbox? For exampe the HTML file is a form that one can fill out, can the HTML file create a text (.txt) file with the form content?
As far as I understand, the HTML file has to be hosted by a webserver and has to allow Javascript or PHP to achieve this. But maybe there is a way to just use an HTML file, a dropbox and a browser?
Any hints what topics I should study to achieve this goal?
On what I've understood from Dropbox, it does not directly show you the file contents in any manner. You can store files there, but the only thing you can see when opening a link that directs to the file, is the page which allows you to download the file to your own PC and save it.
This would seem like an impossible thing to achieve, in any cloud service like Dropbox it would seem. I would recommend you to just get the web hosting service, they are usually not that highly priced after all.
You could do this, but you shouldn't. To make this work, you'd have to use the Dropbox API to upload files, and you'd have to embed in your web page an access token for your account. That means anyone who looked at the source of your web page could get access to make changes in your account (e.g. delete all your files). So there's no safe way to do this without a server-side component (like PHP).
I'm working on a web application that caches html pages and saves it on the user's computer. I want to create a link, so that the user can click on the link and access the cached webpage.
Following is my link to a cached page:
BBC
When I click on the link, nothing happens. I'm not even getting any error.
Can someone please suggest how to create a link to a cached html page?
First of all, not all browsers handle local files equally, indeed, not all computers will be running windows or have a C: drive. Secondly, you don't have much control over a user's cache. Cached pages are usually handled by the browser automatically. You can use headers to specify how a browser ought to cache files, but it's not even required to do so. You can read the W3C recs on caching for more information.
It's unclear what you're trying to do here, but it sounds like it might make more sense for you to use HTML5 local storage or offline files than trying to mess around with their file system directly. The security model of most browsers is such that web apps don't interact with local files, which may be why it's not working for you with your current setup. Dive Into HTML5 has a good overview of HTML5 local storage and offline pages.
Edited based on comment below:
Most browsers' security settings won't let a page on a website access files stored locally. Only locally saved files can link to other locally saved files. Therefore, if the page with a link is on a website, your link won't work. Try creating a link to your file from another locally stored file and see if that works.
Instead of providing the .html extension in the main page where you provide the link you should do something as below:
< href="file:///C:/Users/xxx/yyy/bbc">BBC</a>