I building my first Workshop application and have a requirement to produce PDF reports. While I can see that Notepad has this capability, the formatting options are very basic, and I do not see it as being a viable option for the type of report I need to build. For example, even using a table to stucture my layout lacks features such as the merging of cells or formatting the borders.
What other methods are people using to produce reports within Palantir?
Is there a code-based route?
Thanks
For producing documents and PDFs within Palantir, Notepad has the most extensive point-and-click interface, including print options such as headers, footers, and page breaks (see Notepad documentation).
If Notepad doesn’t have the formatting options you want, you can also create your table in another application, such as Quiver or Contour, and embed it in the Notepad. The documentation shows an example of a table from a Quiver dashboard embedded in a Notepad which is then exported as a PDF.
For a code-based solution, it is possible to write transform output to a PDF in Code Workbook. This will give you the most control over the resulting PDF, although you will need to handle the formatting in code (see Code Workbook documentation).
Finally, you can use the browser’s built-in print functionality to save a PDF of your Workshop. In that case, the exported document will be formatted as you see it in the browser. You can customize the Workshop layout to change the resulting PDF.