Cautions about HTML items and JavaScript files
This recipe shows you that the HTML items and JavaScript files used on the report page are not executed when a report runs in PDF or Excel.
Getting ready
Open the report that we created in the Creating a variable width bar chart using JavaScript recipe in Chapter 3, Using JavaScript Files – Tips and Tricks.
How to do it...
Here, we will run the report in both HTML and PDF format as described in the following steps:
- Run the report in HTML format. Ensure that the bar charts are generated fine.
- Now re-run the report in PDF format.
- Notice that bar charts are absent from the PDF output.
How it works...
When users run the report in any format other than HTML, the prompt page generated is still a web page. Therefore, ...
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