Headings in Summary Screens

ericwm

After upgrading to providence 1.7.17 I no longer see my headings in my Summary Displays in my previous version I had the following code added to my summary header.php
if($t_display->get('display_code')=='accession_record')
{print"div class="headerText>".('ACCESSION RECORD')."</div>";}
if($t_display->get('display_code')=='entity_record')
{print"div class="headerText>".('ENTITY RECORD')."</div>";}
I have tried inserting this in the latest header.php at line 44. I Note that this section is for
case 'domPDF' but did not work
My install is using wkhtmltopdf not domPDF
Not sure if all the lines 74 onwards are actually for case 'wkhtmltopdf'
but inserted code at about line92 but also did not work.
My logo is also not appearing at the top of the Summary page or in the pdf output to print.
I've got something wrong but don't know what.

monica

Any edits you do to configuration files or print templates need to be done inside the /local directory, or they will be overwritten when you do an upgrade.
If you are using wkhtmltopdf, then it will need to go inside that case, which goes down to the next break; Make sure this code is inside php tags and the html <body> tag (it wont show if you have it inside the <head> tag).

ericwm

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately I lost my old config files (my fault).
I have configured my new install to use dompdf and have edited my printTemplate file as shown below. The first error I get is for this line if($t_display=$this->getVAR('t_display')😉 unexpected ";"
The correct syntax for this line was in a post to me but I can no longer find it on the ca support forum. Trying to remember what it said but no luck.
Could you please look at the code and advise what the error is. Thank You.

if($this->request->config->get('summary_header_enabled')) {
switch($this->getVar('PDFRenderer')) {
case 'domPDF'
?>
<div id='header'>
<?php

if($t_display=$this->getVAR('t_display')😉

if(file_exists($this->request->getThemeDirectoryPath()."/graphics/logos/".$this->request->config->get('report_img'))){
	print '<img src="'.$this->request->getThemeDirectoryPath().'/graphics/logos/'.$this->request->config->get('report_img').'" class="headerImg"/>';
}

if($t_dispLAY->get('display_code')=='entity_record') 
{print"<div class='headerText'>"._('ENTITY RECORD')."</div>";}
    
if($t_display->get('display_code')=='accession_record')
{print"<div class='headerText'>"._('ACCESSION RECORD')."</div>";}


if ($this->request->config->get('summary_page_numbers')) {
	print "<div class='pagingText'>"._t('Page')." </div>";
}

?>
</div>
<?php
break;
case 'PhantomJS':

monica

wkhtmltopdf is a better library to use.

The code on the error you received is complaining about the semicolon placement.
It should be:
if($t_display=$this->getVAR('t_display'));

ericwm

Thank you for the correction.
Noted that wkhtmltopdf is a better library to use. I went back to domPDf to try and get to the status of my previous install and if ok try the wkhtmltopdf option.
I have had no success in getting my added code to work so installed a clean header.php (nothing added by me) and tried downloading a pdf Accession record and get the following in Apache error log shown below.
(If I add my code and download record using MsWord option I get correct output)
Don't know where to go from here.
Eric
[Sat Feb 24 09:17:59.477191 2024] [php7:error] [pid 5603] [client 192.168.0.102:35334] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get() on null in /var/www/html/providence/app/printTemplates/summary/header.php:48\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/View.php(329): require()\n#1 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/View.php(297): View->render()\n#2 /var/www/html/providence/app/printTemplates/summary/ca_objects_summary.php(50): View->render()\n#3 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/View.php(329): require('/var/www/html/p...')\n#4 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/View.php(285): View->render()\n#5 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/Controller/ActionController.php(163): View->render()\n#6 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/BaseEditorController.php(867): ActionController->render()\n#7 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/Controller/RequestDispatcher.php(273): BaseEditorController->PrintSummary()\n#8 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/Controller/AppController.php(113): RequestDispatcher->dispatch()\n#9 /var/www/html/providence/index.php(120): AppController->dispatch()\n#10 {main}\n thrown in /var/www/html/providence/app/printTemplates/summary/header.php on line 48, referer: http://192.168.0.115/providence/index.php/editor/objects/ObjectEditor/Summary/object_id/15396

ericwm

Update - If I disable summary header in app config then pdf report prints ok.

ericwm

Finally figured out what the problem is - I took my old menu_logo which was a .png file and used inkscape to convert it to .svg. Then used this image in app.conf - Styles as the summary _image. For some reason collectiveaccess does not like this. Reverting to the standard logo.svg everything works ok. Will have to try some other package to do the .png to .svg conversion - any suggestions would be welcome.

monica

Why do you need to convert it?

ericwm

My custom logo menu_logo.png worked fine in an earlier version of providence so I substituted it in app.conf Styles
in report_img and summary_img and it did not work. I converted this custom image into .svg format and it did not work. I then substituted my custom .svg into the login_ image and the header_image and it works.
when I use it in report_img and summary img I get this message-
Errors occurred when trying to access /providence/index.php/editor/objects/ObjectEditor/PrintSummary:
Could not generate PDF
The permissions and ownership of the image file are the same as for original logo.svg.
Must be doing something wrong but cannot figure it out.

ericwm

To add to the above - I did a clean install of Themes and Print Templates. Result C A logo appears in Summary .pdf print.
Substituted mylogo.svg in app.conf Styles header.img Result header at top of screen changes to mylogo.svg.
Substitute same .svg file in Styles as report.img and summary.img Result when trying to print PDF Summary -
Errors occurred when trying to access /providence/index.php/editor/objects/ObjectEditor/PrintSummary:
Could not generate PDF.

ericwm

Hello Monica
Sorry for having to continue this thread but I am going around in circles here.

Using phpinfo.php it shows dom as libxml version 2.9.14
In providence dompdf appears to be version 1.2.2
3 Configuration file says dompdf is available.
I f I use the standard providence logo.svg as summary header image it works ok.
5.If I use providence standard menu_logo.png it fails with error -
Errors occurred when trying to access /providence/index.php/editor/objects/ObjectEditor/PrintSummary: Could not generate PDF
Apache2 error log -
[Fri Mar 01 08:56:27.034204 2024] [php7:error] [pid 2504] [client 192.168.0.115:39734] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ''YToxMjI6e3M6MzI6IjVhYzVmMjlhM' (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE) in /var/www/html/providence/app/tmp/collectiveaccessCache/0fea6a13c52b4d47/25368f24b045ca84/38a865804f8fdcb6/57cd99682e939275/efd02694d21a801f/598ce1b6114171fe/c21f969b5f03d33d/43e04f8f136e7682/e92d1ceb7caccf1b/c14ac4c40a5783fd.php on line 14
This leads me to believe that the fault lies with dompdf but if so why does the logo.svg work?
I can try using wkhtmltopdf but in a previous post you stated -
"If you are using wkhtmltopdf, then it will need to go inside that case, which goes down to the next break; Make sure this code is inside php tags and the html <body> tag (it wont show if you have it inside the <head> tag)."
However in the header.php file there is no "break" after "case 'wkhtmltopdf':" I presume that as this is the last 'case' it is not needed.
Do I copy all the code between "case 'dompdf'" and the next 'break' to "case 'wkhtmltopdf'" or only my addition?

Thank you for your patience

ericwm

Some more digging - Installed wkhtmltopdf . CA docs recommends version 0.12.1 but could not find it in git repository so installed a version for Ubunt 22.04 ver 0.12.6.
Edited php header as shown below .
when using CA default logo.svg everything prints ok including header image. Tried using other default CA logo ca_logo.png - failed with error "could not generate pdf'
Tried using mylogo.png and got failed with error "could not generate pdf"

So Both dompdf and wkhtmltopdf will print pdf summaries if I use the CA default logo.svg but will not print any logos with .png extension.

Below is my code after case wkhtml in header.php
?>
<div id='header'>
<?php
if($t_display=$this->getVAR('t_display'));

if(file_exists($this->request->getThemeDirectoryPath()."/graphics/logos/".$this->request->config->get('report_img'))){
	print '<img src="'.$this->request->getThemeDirectoryPath().'/graphics/logos/'.$this->request->config->get('report_img').'" class="headerImg"/>';
}             
    
if($t_display->get('display_code')=='accession_record')  //my edit
{print"<div class='headerText'>"._('ACCESSION RECORD')."</div>";} //my edit
    
if($t_display->get('display_code')=='entity_record') //my edit
{print"<div class='headerText'>"._('ENTITY RECORD')."</div>";} //my edit    

if ($this->request->config->get('summary_page_numbers')) {
	print "<div class='pagingText'>"._t('Page')." </div>";
}

?>
</div>
<?php
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head >
<div id="head">
<?php
if(file_exists($this->getVar('base_path')."/local/pdf.css")){
?>
<link type="text/css" href="<?php print $this->getVar('base_path'); ?>/local/pdf.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<?php
} else {
?>
<link type="text/css" href="<?php print $this->getVar('base_path'); ?>/pdf.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<?php
}
if(file_exists($this->request->getThemeDirectoryPath()."/graphics/logos/".$this->request->config->get('report_img'))){
print '<img src="'.$this->request->getThemeDirectoryPath().'/graphics/logos/'.$this->request->config->get('report_img').'" class="headerImg"/>';
}
print "<div class='pagingText' id='pagingText' style='position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px;'> </div>";
?>

<script>
	function dynvar() {
		var vars = {};
		var x = document.location.search.substring(1).split('&');

		for (var i in x) {
			var z = x[i].split('=',2);

			if (!vars[z[0]]) {
				vars[z[0]] = unescape(z[1]);
			}
		}

		document.getElementById('pagingText').innerHTML = 'page ' + vars.page; // + ' of ' + vars.topage
	}
	
</script>
</div>

</head>
<body onload='dynvar();'>
</body>
</html>

<?php
}
}

seth

Re: wkhtmltopdf versions, there were some issues in versions after 0.12.1 that would often cause distorted output, which is why the documentation references that version. On our current production system we are running 0.12.6.1 without issue, so I'd go with that.

Regarding PNG vs SVG, usually it's SVG that's the problem. I can't remember ever having a problem with PNG.

Please send me the logo in both SVG and PNG format + your printTemplates code and I'll try it out on one of our test systems. Perhaps the issue is specific to your server... or not. But a good first step would be to rule that out.

ericwm

Hi Seth, been a long time. How can I send the svg and png files plus PrintTemplates code.
Code that will be usable for you. Don't see attach files on this forum anymore.
Eric

seth

email them to support@collectiveaccess.org