Introduction to dynamic print layouts

Availability

Capacity

The pricing page (section on Essentials) offers info on how many renders per month are available in your subscription.

How print customization works in Ninox

Ninox uses a third-party integration, carbone.io, to find all markers {} in a document (.xlsx, .odt, .docx, ...) and replace these markers with Ninox data.

According to the syntax of your markers, the following operations can be performed:

• replacing a field

• formatting data

• repeating a document portion (a table row or anything else)

• looping on unlimited nested arrays

• conditionally displaying a data based on a test expression

The syntax is similar to using a JSON Array or Object in JavaScript. Combined with features of, for example, Microsoft Word or LibreOffice, you can create documents with:

• graphics

• headers, footers

• automatically repeated table header across pages

• insert computed field

• page count

etc.

Supported file formats

Import

• .xhtml

• .odt

• .ods

• .odp

• .docx

• .xlsx

• .pptx

• .odg

Export/print

• .pdf

Supported fonts

Google Fonts are pre-installed. If a font is not rendering into documents, verify that font is available on Google Fonts.

Supported functions

Functions for standard printing

• printRecord(nid, layoutName)

  • prints default report

• printAndSaveRecord(nid, layoutName)

  • prints default report and returns the link

Functions for dynamic printing

• printRecord(nid, templateLayoutName, data)

  • prints dynamic report with your custom layout

• printAndSaveRecord(nid, templateLayoutName, data)

  • prints dynamic report with your custom layout and returns the link