Exporting a Page as a PDF or Image

You can instantly download a snapshot of your page as a PDF document or .png image using the Export to file menu on the page toolbar. This allows you and anyone running the page to quickly capture its current state, with filter selections applied, in a format that can be easily reused, distributed, added to PowerPoint presentations, and more. The ability to capture a snapshot at design time allows you to quickly capture multiple visual representations of your data as you develop your content, while the ability to capture a snapshot at run time allows you or a user running the page to save images of it with the currently selected filter values.

When designing or running the page, the Export to file menu appears on the page toolbar by default. Click it to display options to download a snapshot of the page as a PDF or image, as shown in the following image.

The .pdf or .png file is downloaded using your browser. The file can be opened immediately and saved to distribute and reuse later.

The snapshot that is produced is a run-time representation of your content with styling and filtering, including on-chart filtering, applied. Since the exported file is an image, it is not interactive, so tooltips, scrolling, and other behavior are unavailable.

You can change the export options that are visible on the page toolbar. Select the entire page, then open the Settings tab. The Show export option and PDF and Image options are selected by default. Clear the PDF or Image check box to change the format available when exporting the page. If only one format is enabled, the Export to file option on the page toolbar changes from a menu to a button. You can also clear the Show export check box to remove the export option from the page.

The following considerations may affect page export behavior:

• If a container is maximized when you export the page, then only that container displays in the exported image or PDF file.
• Content in containers on a page may not appear correctly when exported from Internet Explorer.
• When exporting a page from Microsoft Edge, ensure that the containers on the page are large enough to display their contents without scroll bars. Otherwise, the content may overlap.
• XML files and procedures with an XML output format added to a page produce an error when exporting.
• Certain chart extensions, for example, the Sparkline KPI, KPI with Sparkline Large, and KPI Table extensions, may not render correctly in an exported page.
• If a container on a page contains a URL that does not have the same protocol, host name, and port number as that of the environment from which the page is run, the export cannot be performed due to same-origin policy restrictions.
• If a page has too many rows to fit onto a single page of a PDF document, then containers and their contents may be split by page breaks in the exported file.
• PDF documents in containers on a page, including charts and reports with a PDF output format, do not display when the page is exported.