Create a PDF in Salesforce with Visualforce and Apex

In this video, we go over how to create a PDF within Salesforce using Visualforce and Apex. This is a simple way to generate PDFs from records in your org.
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[@aniketk11]

Hey Chris, any idea about making this page available as a link from Salesforce Experience Site

[@anninguyen7772]

Hi Chris, what if the language is in Czech? how could we encode the text?

[@waljaengel9670]

Hi, great work. is there a way to reset html formatting like margin and padding?

[@NaveenKumar-bc7ef]

Hi Chris
The solution is very simple and easy but in my case, I am using custom objects "Sales_Order__c and Sales_Order_Line_Item,as I am new to this how can I modify this ?

[@albertoteotliramirezflores9380]

Hi, Chris, i need help. I have a problem with a object, because i have one object relationed with other object and giveme the Id objects but i wanted give me a recordsname, what I can do?

[@ChrisMarquez]

Hi Alberto, it depends on your query and the relationship of the objects. For example, you could do ParentAccountLookupField.NameField if you're querying contacts and want to get the recordName of a parent such as the Account.

[@megganlandis1549]

Hey Chris, hoping you can help with this - your video has been really helpful, and although this is probably really simple, can you tell me what the code would be if I was trying to add a colored border (like you have in this video) that runs the entire width of the page, but just has 'Required Fields' centered in the border? I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks!

[@sushma9325]

List has no rows for assignment to SObject -- This error is being shown. I'm a beginner. Could anyone assist on this, please

[@naoufalalaa7295]

set an Id in the controller :)

[@twit1twit17]

@@naoufalalaa7295 How can I pass account Id dynamically instead of hard coding using custom controller?

[@captainfeels8390]

Hey Chris, i hope you're doing well. can you make a video about saving a VFPage as an attachment to an object using getcontentAsPDF? I'm encountering errors and don't know how to solve it. thanks.

[@ChrisMarquez]

Feel free to comment the code and error you're encountering. I'll try to help you out.

[@jonbojones4316]

Hi so could i create a pdf with VF and apex class Boy using a Flow?

[@ChrisMarquez]

Hello, not sure if this is what you mean but it is possible to use a flow to generate and email a pdf that is created using VF and Apex.
I'll create a video that explains how to do so but for now all you would need to do is to create a public static method with the "@InvocableMethod" annotation to let the flow builder know that the method can be run as an invocable action. This method should create an pageReference instance of the the VF Page that you want to make a pdf from. You can then use the getContent method to get the pdf as a blob. Set the email file attachment body to this blob and the email you get from that should contain the pdf.
Back in the flow builder, create a screen flow with a button or checkbox that will call the invocableMethod as an apex action when submitted.
Hope this helps.

[@ChrisMarquez]

This video explains what I wrote above: th-cam.com/video/ZVwPwB1bLTg/w-d-xo.html

[@beatrisyessayan8767]

How Can I create a test class for this generated pdf?

[@pavankumarv6849]

Hey if you have written class for this then can you please share

[@annepetersen4745]

Hi, This video has been very helpful for me to learn how this all fits together. In your example you have 2 SOQL queries, one for invoiced, one for not invoiced.
How would I go about doing similar, but instead of explicitly selecting 2 separate SOQL, i wanted to select all Opportunities, not needing to know what the stages are upfront and then displaying in a PDF in separate tables for each stage found. (if that makes sense)
Any advice much appreciated. Thanks

[@annepetersen4745]

Just to update ... would a list of lists work here? The"outside" list value being stage and the "inside" being all the opportunity details of opps with that stage. Then run a for loop on the outer value for each stage. I can think of this logically, but not experienced enough with apex and vf to work out how to achieve this. Thanks.

[@ChrisMarquez]

Hello Anne, just uploaded a video discussing this: th-cam.com/video/izZXcxzLguQ/w-d-xo.html

[@praveenraj290]

Am having issue, while downloading pdf its blank where as data is there in vs page..any idea to resolve this..thanks

[@ChrisMarquez]

Hi, happy to help. Can you post your solution in a GitHub gist or in a comment? I'll take a look at it.

[@jerryraju6293]

Hi can you please provide me that code.

[@ChrisMarquez]

gist.github.com/chrismarquezdev/6d82992bc594f2efcc6bec381e5e7e0c

[@jerryraju6293]

@@ChrisMarquez thanks for sharing