ExportDialog

Dialog window used by the PDF export feature. It allows users to select export options like paper format and columns to export. This dialog contains a number of predefined fields which you can access through the popup's widgetMap.

Default widgets

The default widgets of this dialog are:

The default buttons are:

Bottom buttons may be customized using bbar config passed to exportDialog:

const grid = new Grid({
    features : {
        pdfExport : {
            exportDialog : {
                bbar : {
                    items : {
                        exportButton : { text : 'Go!' }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

Configuring default widgets

Widgets can be customized with exportDialog config:

const grid = new Grid({
    features : {
        pdfExport : {
            exportDialog : {
                items : {
                    // hide the field
                    orientationField  : { hidden : true },

                    // reorder fields
                    exporterTypeField : { weight : 150 },

                    // change default format in exporter
                    fileFormatField   : { value : 'png' }
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

grid.features.pdfExport.showExportDialog();

Configuring default columns

By default all visible columns are selected in the export dialog. This is managed by the autoSelectVisibleColumns config. To change default selected columns you should disable this config and set field value. Value should be an array of valid column ids (or column instances). This way you can preselect hidden columns:

const grid = new Grid({
    columns : [
        { id : 'name', text : 'Name', field : 'name' },
        { id : 'age', text : 'Age', field : 'age' },
        { id : 'city', text : 'City', field : 'city', hidden : true }
    ],
    features : {
        pdfExport : {
            exportDialog : {
                autoSelectVisibleColumns : false,
                items : {
                    columnsField : { value : ['name', 'city'] }
                }
            }
        }
    }
})

// This will show export dialog with Name and City columns selected
// even though City column is hidden in the UI
grid.features.pdfExport.showExportDialog();

Adding fields

You can add your own fields to the export dialog. To make such field value acessible to the feature it should follow a specific naming pattern - it should have ref config ending with Field, see other fields for reference - orientationField, columnsField, etc. Fields not matching this pattern are ignored. When values are collected from the dialog, Field part of the widget reference is removed, so orientationField becomes orientation, fooField becomes foo, etc.

const grid = new Grid({
    features : {
        pdfExport : {
            exportDialog : {
                items : {
                    // This field gets into export config
                    fooField : {
                        type : 'text',
                        label : 'Foo',
                        value : 'FOO'
                    },

                    // This one does not, because name doesn't end with `Field`
                    bar : {
                        type : 'text',
                        label : 'Bar',
                        value : 'BAR'
                    },

                    // Add a container widget to wrap some fields together
                    myContainer : {
                        type : 'container',
                        items : {
                            // This one gets into config too despite the nesting level
                            bazField : {
                                type : 'text',
                                label : 'Baz',
                                value : 'BAZ'
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

// Assuming export dialog is opened and export triggered with default values
// you can receive custom field values here
grid.on({
    beforePdfExport({ config }) {
        console.log(config.foo) // 'FOO'
        console.log(config.bar) // undefined
        console.log(config.baz) // 'BAZ'
    }
});

Configuring widgets at runtime

If you don't know column ids before grid instantiation or you want a flexible config, you can change widget values before dialog pops up:

const grid = new Grid({
    columns : [
        { id : 'name', text : 'Name', field : 'name' },
        { id : 'age', text : 'Age', field : 'age' },
        { id : 'city', text : 'City', field : 'city', hidden : true }
    ],
    features : {
        pdfExport : true
    }
});

// Such listener would ignore autoSelectVisibleColumns config. Similar to the snippet
// above this will show Name and City columns
grid.features.pdfExport.exportDialog.on({
    beforeShow() {
        this.widgetMap.columnsField.value = ['age', 'city']
    }
});

See also

• PdfExport - PDF export feature
• Print - Print feature
• Popup - Base popup