Showing posts with label textboxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textboxes. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2012

How to hide textboxes in PDFs but not in HTML?

Is there a way to hide textboxes (or any element) when the report is in non-HTML view?

The reason for this is that I have several drill-through features that the users fail to see, so I thought I'd put some help texts in the report ("click skill title to show skill report"). This help texts are totally meaningless on a PDF or in Excel though, and I'd like to get rid of them there. Any ideas?

There is no way to do automatically.

One idea would be to use a parameter such a View having options for target output mode e.g. HTML, PDF, Excel etc. and then have conditional logic in your report to show/hide elements based on the target output.

It's not automatic, but it's an option.