Creating reports and dashboards | Stimulsoft community forum

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2018 1:44 pm**

Hello,
I'm quite new to Stimulsoft and I have an issue.

I followed your sample to export the report to pdf file.

    report.render();
    var pdfData = report.exportDocument(Stimulsoft.Report.StiExportFormat.Pdf);

    // Get report file name
    var fileName = String.isNullOrEmpty(report.reportAlias) ? report.reportName : report.reportAlias;
    // Save data to file
    Object.saveAs(pdfData, fileName + ".pdf", "application/pdf");

In this way it is asking for choosing the directory where to save the pdf file.
Is there another way to directly save the pdf in a fixed directory, without asking the user to choose it?

kind regards,
Matteo

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2018 5:58 am**

Hi Matteo,

Please check the following approach;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=volzOqtESno

https://github.com/stimulsoft/Samples-J ... 20PDF.html

Also, the following page helps to find some good samples as well, we added it to help with a quick start to find some samples easier;
https://www.stimulsoft.com/en/samples
And this one:
https://www.stimulsoft.com/en/videos?tags=js

Thank you,
Edward

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2018 7:15 am**

Hello Edward,
thanks for your additional samples.

I tried to change approach, and changed my code based on another of your samples

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                // Create an PDF settings instance. You can change export settings.
                var settings = new Stimulsoft.Report.Export.StiPdfExportSettings();
                // Create an PDF service instance.
                var service = new Stimulsoft.Report.Export.StiPdfExportService();

                // Create a MemoryStream object.
                var stream = new Stimulsoft.System.IO.MemoryStream();
                // Export PDF using MemoryStream.
                service.exportTo(report, stream, settings);

                // Get PDF data from MemoryStream object
                var data = stream.toArray();
                // Get report file name
                var fileName = String.isNullOrEmpty(report.reportAlias) ? report.reportName : report.reportAlias;
                // Save data to file
                Object.saveAs(data, fileName + ".pdf", "application/pdf");

It works, like already did my previous code, but I have the same issue.
How I can avoid it shows dialog box for choosing path? Is it possible to pass to Object.saveAs the fullname of the file including path, so that it store the file without showing the dialog box? How I can do it?

kind regards,
Matteo

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:10 pm**

Hello,

Unfortunately, on the client side due to the browser limitations, it is not possible.

Thank you.

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