Save completed form as "whatever" to local PC?

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@fgsalama&nbsp;wrote:<br><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Many posts about the subject but not a single clear answer?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1- can you add a control on the form for user to click and be able to save the form in many format like PDF or Excel or ??</p><p><font color="#ff0000">Yes.&nbsp; There is a control to save a form as PDF.&nbsp; It needs to be saved to a SmartObject.</font></p><p>2- can you add a control on the form for user&nbsp;to download the form in ???? format to local PC</p><p><font color="#ff0000">No.&nbsp; Unless you use rules to first save it as a PDF to a SmartObject and then usethe attachment control to download it.</font></p><p>3- can you add a control on the form for user to click and export the K2 PDF sql table data for the related record to a PDF file on local PC.</p><p><font color="#ff0000">I don't completely understand the question, but you could use the PDF control to first save the PDF to a SmartObject and then allow th user to access that file from the file attachment control.</font></p><p>4- any simple work around to extract the sql data from smartopbject?</p><p><font color="#ff0000">In 5.2 there is a new rule for list views that can export the list&nbsp; to Excel/CSV.&nbsp; Otherwise, if you are storing the data in a database then any reporting tool can be used to extract the data.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>thanks in advance for all the great ideas for such a function that is clearly in high demand.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><hr>

 

Many posts about the subject but not a single clear answer?

 

1- can you add a control on the form for user to click and be able to save the form in many format like PDF or Excel or ??

Yes.  There is a control to save a form as PDF.  It needs to be saved to a SmartObject.

2- can you add a control on the form for user to download the form in ???? format to local PC

No.  Unless you use rules to first save it as a PDF to a SmartObject and then usethe attachment control to download it.

3- can you add a control on the form for user to click and export the K2 PDF sql table data for the related record to a PDF file on local PC.

I don't completely understand the question, but you could use the PDF control to first save the PDF to a SmartObject and then allow th user to access that file from the file attachment control.

4- any simple work around to extract the sql data from smartopbject?

In 5.2 there is a new rule for list views that can export the list  to Excel/CSV.  Otherwise, if you are storing the data in a database then any reporting tool can be used to extract the data.

 

thanks in advance for all the great ideas for such a function that is clearly in high demand.

 

 

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