Zoho Creator: Get Images in Report to be Exported to PDF
- Joel Lipman
- Zoho
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This is an article to document how to produce a report which when exported to PDF will display images without a user wall.
Why?
Our client needs to send a report to suppliers that include photos of the faulty products. These display fine in a Zoho Creator report and even show up on the preview when exporting to PDF. But when you download the PDF and view this outside of the Zoho instances, the photos don't display.
This is because the photos were just links in the Zoho Creator image field, links to another Zoho app that is behind a user wall (ie. login and password as a Zoho User).
How?
So I'll go over what happens in the real world process; then cover some technical information; and even include the function that makes it work: