What is this and how do I use it?
I’ve been trying to play around with this, but it looks like the feature is still under development.
Here’s what I’ve learned so far:
- From what I can gather, it requires business plan or above at the moment
- There’s a brand new
Print Screen to PDFaction (only 1 update!):
- You can specify which components are included within the Print Screen using the
Visible in PDFdropdown
- Glide generates a temporary PDF url with a 60-minute expiration
- Combine this with the
Upload Filesaction to permanently save the PDF to Glide
I haven’t been successful creating anything yet though - generating blank pages.
Once this gets going though, it will finally resolve these feature requests from 2020!
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I have scoreboards, leaderboards and scorecards (no @Darren_Murphy it is not a golf app 
) which would align perfectly with this feature.
Sneaky!
I’m really hoping this action will be as successful as I think it will be. I’m hoping that it will recognize and honor split containers to create pretty reports etc.
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Love this update… it will be sooooo useful! Do you think the PDF will transfer the entire screen into 1 PDF page, regardless of full height? I wonder how it manages pages sizes… maybe a scaler option to fit to page!
I was wondering the same. For now, they’re branding it as a print screen which means page bleed like you were printing from a web page I imagine
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More info on this:
- It generates a “function” URL that when resolved will return a PDF.
- You can use it in an Upload File function like Robert noted to convert it to a PDF link.
- I have a very long page. In my test, it splits into multiple pages (answering @Simon_Hill 's question).
I haven’t been able to get the temp PDF link to resolve.
