If you would like to export table reports, Gantt charts or dashboard pages to PDF or if you would like to send regular emails with dashboards as PDF attachments then you need to install PhantomJS on your Private eazyBI flex.bi server. PhantomJS will be used by eazyBI flex.bi to convert eazyBI flex.bi web pages to PDF files.
Download and extract PhantomJS installation (eazyBI flex.bi is tested with latest PhantomJS version 1.9.7) in a directory on your Private eazyBI flex.bi server and then specify location of your phantomjs executable (or phantomjs.exe on Windows) in eazybiin the flexbi.toml configuration file (or copy and uncomment configuration from eazybifrom the flexbi.toml.sample file):
[phantomjs]location = "/usr/local/bin/phantomjs" |
On Windows use single quotes to avoid special processing of the \ backslash character:
[phantomjs]location = 'C:\phantomjs\phantomjs.exe' |
After setting the location please restart private eazyBI the Private flex.bi server and you see you should see the PDF export option in the table reports, Gantt charts and in dashboard pages.
There is good description for alternative installation methods on PhantomJS download page. Please note that for Linux operating systems it is expected that some base libraries necessary for rendering and the basic font files are available in the system. Here is example how to install the dependencies on CentOS/RedHat based systems:
sudo yum install fontconfig freetype libfreetype.so.6 libfontconfig.so.1 libstdc++.so.6 |
For better visual results in generated pdf documents we recommended to install Microsoft TrueType fonts. One way to achieve this on CentOS/RedHat is to follow this article. Steps to do:
sudo rpm -Uvh msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm |
If you receive error.txt file when doing export to PDF then please see more detailed phantomjs error message in System Events.If you would like to send regular emails with eazyBI dashboards as PDF attachments then ensure that you have set up mailer configuration in eazybi.toml.