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Can a PDF page be rendered as Visualforce?
In the header of the page, will be something like the following: Because of the renderas=”pdf”, this page will only display as a PDF “preview”. You might have another version of the page that could display as VisualForce, but most clients I’ve worked with don’t.
How to render a page as a PDF file?
You can render any page as a PDF by adding the renderAs attribute to the component, and specifying “pdf” as the rendering service. For example: Visualforce pages rendered as PDFs will either display in the browser or download as a PDF file, depending on your browser settings.
What does it mean when a PDF is previewed?
From the phrasing of your question, it sounds as though you may have a bit of a misunderstanding of how PDF “previews” work, either that or the terminology you’re using is in reference to visualforce page you’re starting the preview/render process from rather than the actual page that’s being previewed/rendered as a PDF.
How to save a VF page as a PDF?
You’ll need to do that with your button code or in some other manner that might be new to me.
How to save a PDF file as an email attachment?
So, you may want to have a button for “preview” and another button for “Save PDF” if you don’t want to save it manually plus a third button “Send PDF” to send it as an email attachment if you’re trying to automate the steps into a single button press behaviors. I rarely do anything with button code, so can’t help you out with that part.
How to save PDF as attachment in Salesforce developer community?
When I run the process, a pdf is created successfully at the right location under the Custom__c but its blank. When I “login to community as a user”, again the same vf page is blank but when I create a custom link of vf page in Custom__c object, I see the entire letter in pdf.
How to save PDF file as an attachment?
I put an action item in the block, to call the saveAttachement method. So this is now calling. However it’s running twice. In addition, body = pdf.getContent (); is getting an error.