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Separate Products & Services in PDF Maker

Dear community, are you working with PDF Maker some time and you still didn't figure out how to separate Products & Services in the product block table? You don't need to spend additional hours to figure out how it is working. It's really simple and after you finish reading this post you will be able to give better look to your templates in no time! Let's take closer look at our example, how to proceed. We will use the example with PC Hardware as a Products and Installation/Build of PC as a Service. Note this is just an example, you can use any products or services you need! The main key to this customization are variables used to start and end product block. These...

November 26, 2019, , , , , 0 CommentsRead more...
Calculation in PDF Maker

Calculation within PDF Maker

Last week our support team has a specific requirement for the PDF Maker extension. Our customer needs a specific calculation in Productblock table. He needs multiply two columns and summary it. He needs to show a Purchase Price in PDF export and show the sum of all Purchase prices. Here is a small description how to make this. Maybe this can help some of our PDF Maker users. There is also Video which shows how to calculate in PDF Maker, but there is only sum function.So in this case, if we need multiply two columns and summary it, we need a start (before Productblock) with definition of variables and give them default value 0 [CUSTOMFUNCTION|setCFNumerValue|purchaseprice_product|0|CUSTOMFUNCTION] [CUSTOMFUNCTION|setCFNumerValue|purchaseprice_total|0|CUSTOMFUNCTION]In next step we will calculate purchaseprice_product variable as $PRODUCTQUANTITY$ * $PRODUCTS_CF_751$....

July 22, 20190 CommentsRead more...

Font Awesome for PDF Maker? No problem!

Did you ever make the template and in the end it was looking "boring" just with text and logo? You know there was something missing to make it more special and livelier. With our new feature Font Awesome for PDF Maker, you can use Icons and Social logos! It's simple and fast, all you need is to do few clicks in your template! Comparison: With Icons / Without Icons To get a Font Awesome for PDF Maker, you need Basic or PRO version & PDF Maker version 700.7.0 or higher for Vtiger 7 and version 600.19.0 or higher for Vtiger 6. Useful Links: Manual how to use Font Awesome If you still don't have the PDF Maker, you can visit our shop More about PDF Maker

November 29, 2018, , , 0 CommentsRead more...

How to hide/show line of table in PDF file in PDF Maker

Have you ever met with this situation? You have a great template for Invoice but if for example discount = 0 you need to edit template and remove line because it does not looks so great. If your answer is Yes then this article certainly helps you. So how to edit your template to hide/show line based on field? First at all, I have to say that this manual is only for PDF Maker Professional because you need to use Custom Function. Let's start:Find in your template line in table that you want to hide/show and click into this line Go to Other information tab And click on Custom functions Find its4you_if or its4you_isnull function and add into line you want to hide/shows (I recommend to use...

August 23, 2018, , 2 CommentsRead more...
How to create own custom function

How to create own Custom function for PDF Maker or EMAIL Maker?

Hello Guys,lot of our customers ask me how to create custom function for PDF Maker or EMAIL Maker. Even thought it is described in our manuals (you can read it here) of these extensions, I will show you it one more time with simple example.First at all, you need to create own .php file because with update of PDF Maker or EMAIL Maker our standard files are re-written and you can lose your function.Please create your new file in: [vtigerROOT]/modules/PDFMaker(EMAILMaker)/resources/functionsHow to create own custom function At least, your file have to contains <?php You can also copy these lines to your new file: if (!function_exists('nameofyourfunction')) {function nameofyourfunction( ) { ...

October 19, 2017, , , , 6 CommentsRead more...
PDF Maker missing in vtiger 7 menu

Can’t you see PDF Maker in menu after migration to vtiger 7?

In these days, lot of our customers migrate to vtiger 7. Then install PDF Maker (EMAIL Maker) for vtiger 7 but PDF Maker (EMAIL Maker) is missing in menu.PDF Maker missing in vtiger 7 menuFor some reasons installation does not write record into vtiger_app2tab table.To show PDF Maker (EMAIL Maker) in your menu just provide few simple steps:Open your databasePDF Maker missing in vtiger 7 menu Click on SQLPDF Maker missing in vtiger 7 menu Copy following queries and execute these queries for PDF Maker set @oId = (select tabid from vtiger_tab Where name = 'PDFMaker' limit 1); set @newSeq = (select max(sequence)+1 from vtiger_app2tab where appname = 'PROJECT' limit 1); insert into vtiger_app2tab (tabid, appname, sequence, visible) values (@oId, 'PROJECT', @newSeq, 1); select...

October 12, 2017, 2 CommentsRead more...