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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-17953

Exporting a page as PDF having gadgets doesn't display the content properly

      Steps:
      1. Create a page and add two JIRA(or any) gadgets to the page.
      2. Authenticate and save the page.
      3. user can see the data of the page. export the page as PDF.

      Result:
      1. Only the headings of the gadget are included in the PDF.
      2. No actual gadget content is there.

      Expected:
      1. The gadget content should also be there.

      Atlassian Status as of 19 Oct 2010

      Hi All,
      Unfortunately this problem is not an easy one to solve. Gadgets are generated by scripts that run entirely in the user's web browser, not on the Confluence server. Due to this, the server does not have enough information from which to export the contents that you see in your browser. Across gadgets in general, attempting to re-render them without a browser is a fairly complex issue that we don't plan on solving.

      If you wish to export the results of a gadget, we recommend a couple of work-arounds:

      • Use the browser's own print functions
        For example, on MacOSx you can print straight to PDF using your print menu.
      • Taking screen-shots of the gadgets
        This is a more manual (and less elegant) solution, but it would allow you to share the results of a gadget in a word document by simply copy-pasting the screenshots into a word document.

      Sherif Mansour
      Atlassian Product Management

            [CONFSERVER-17953] Exporting a page as PDF having gadgets doesn't display the content properly

            My workaround:

            1.Open your Confluence page on Chrome

            2.Click Ctrl+P or click print on your browser

            3.Save your document as PDF. Gadgets will appear as expected.

             

            Let me know if this works for u 

            Noni Khutane added a comment - My workaround: 1.Open your Confluence page on Chrome 2.Click Ctrl+P or click print on your browser 3.Save your document as PDF. Gadgets will appear as expected.   Let me know if this works for u 

            Hi, we are affected with this Bug on confluence V 7.4.7, can you open it? We are 2000 users on datacenter affected by this.

             

            Thanks

            Francisco Gomez Balastegui added a comment - Hi, we are affected with this Bug on confluence V 7.4.7, can you open it? We are 2000 users on datacenter affected by this.   Thanks

            I run into this many times and am always surprised how this functionality does not exist. It is so useful, and it makes our ability to communicate with our clients on wiki pages very hard

            ThreatMetrix added a comment - I run into this many times and am always surprised how this functionality does not exist. It is so useful, and it makes our ability to communicate with our clients on wiki pages very hard

            So I also rely on this feature to be able to export a status report to a PDF and send it easily.  But when you have filtered issue gadgets or structure in place, you get gibberish data. Please fix this.

            Rosalina Liszikam added a comment - So I also rely on this feature to be able to export a status report to a PDF and send it easily.  But when you have filtered issue gadgets or structure in place, you get gibberish data. Please fix this.

            Mechee added a comment -

            I don't understand why this isn't on the roadmap. Why bother offering the export to pdf option in confluence? Most everything useful that needs to be shared is going to be in a gadget...I'll put my vote to reopen this issue.

            Mechee added a comment - I don't understand why this isn't on the roadmap. Why bother offering the export to pdf option in confluence? Most everything useful that needs to be shared is going to be in a gadget...I'll put my vote to reopen this issue.

            Karie Kelly added a comment - - edited

            This is a critical issue if you want for users to gain value out of using Confluence for a single source of information and sharing. Everybody needing the information doesn't have access (e.g. customers, partners, prospects, etc.) Therefore, creating documentation from Confluence, as I understood, was to be a core competency. The gadgets are part of Atlassian's solution and, instead of saying that it is complex to solve (although that seems to be the Atlassian's line on many issues and would indicate a different problem in design), Atlassian should go back and understand what their core competencies are develop ways to solve. Being hard doesn't mean it isn't of value and right to do.

            This has become a critical issue as we are not able to share/distribute our executive level reports/summaries without additional work. Thus, begging the question of why we should utilize Confluence for this use case at all if we have to recreate the reports.

            Creating a PDF of the webpage is not a good solution because you cannot control the content (e.g. URLS, headers, footers, etc.) like you can with the export > PDF. Therefore, the ONLY solution it to regenerate into a completely different document and creating screenshot of all the gadgets.

            Karie Kelly added a comment - - edited This is a critical issue if you want for users to gain value out of using Confluence for a single source of information and sharing. Everybody needing the information doesn't have access (e.g. customers, partners, prospects, etc.) Therefore, creating documentation from Confluence, as I understood, was to be a core competency. The gadgets are part of Atlassian's solution and, instead of saying that it is complex to solve (although that seems to be the Atlassian's line on many issues and would indicate a different problem in design), Atlassian should go back and understand what their core competencies are develop ways to solve. Being hard doesn't mean it isn't of value and right to do. This has become a critical issue as we are not able to share/distribute our executive level reports/summaries without additional work. Thus, begging the question of why we should utilize Confluence for this use case at all if we have to recreate the reports. Creating a PDF of the webpage is not a good solution because you cannot control the content (e.g. URLS, headers, footers, etc.) like you can with the export > PDF. Therefore, the ONLY solution it to regenerate into a completely different document and creating screenshot of all the gadgets.

            Uma Ayyer added a comment -

            Dear Atlassian Product Manager,

            I am using Confluence Wikis in my company for status reporting by various teams and then rolling it up in another page using excerpts, jira gadgets and page includes as required. I need the capability to export this to a word doc or a pdf so that the Jira hyperlinks in the report also work. Currently, gadgets, page includes do not render properly. I am evangelizing Jira and Confluence in my company here in Silicon Valley, and need this export capability for creating docs from wikis, sending reports to senior management, or else our evaluation will not be approved and we may have to switch back to media wiki or something else. It has been almost 4 years since the original issue was reported, so can you reconsider and open this issue? It is much appreciated. Thanks.

            Uma

            Uma Ayyer added a comment - Dear Atlassian Product Manager, I am using Confluence Wikis in my company for status reporting by various teams and then rolling it up in another page using excerpts, jira gadgets and page includes as required. I need the capability to export this to a word doc or a pdf so that the Jira hyperlinks in the report also work. Currently, gadgets, page includes do not render properly. I am evangelizing Jira and Confluence in my company here in Silicon Valley, and need this export capability for creating docs from wikis, sending reports to senior management, or else our evaluation will not be approved and we may have to switch back to media wiki or something else. It has been almost 4 years since the original issue was reported, so can you reconsider and open this issue? It is much appreciated. Thanks. Uma

            We have the same Problem. I would recommend reopening this issue.

            Roya Afshar added a comment - We have the same Problem. I would recommend reopening this issue.

            arikevin added a comment -

            You guys need to do the hard things, need the export capability. I would recommend reopening this issue.

            arikevin added a comment - You guys need to do the hard things, need the export capability. I would recommend reopening this issue.

            The workaround works fine until you won't make changes in the PDF layout information of pages in the space settings.
            I think its sad to offer the pdf-export-functionality even though it doesn't works fine

            Stephan Heller added a comment - The workaround works fine until you won't make changes in the PDF layout information of pages in the space settings. I think its sad to offer the pdf-export-functionality even though it doesn't works fine

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