Hey
Currently I am working on exporting data to a PDF file.
Creating the file is no problem. When I press the button "generate report", the file is created.
However, it does not contain any data (name, first name).
If I visit the template (localhost: 1880 / report-test), and reload the page manually, the data is written out as desired.
Is it possible to read in the data after pressing the button, so that the data is placed in the PDF when generating the file? I can't find a solution.
Note: I copied the "buffer" from a manual, I don't know if there are better options. (I only have limited (to no) knowledge of Javascript)
Thank you very much!
A part of my flow is shown below. This is only part of the entire flow. In my flow more data is added to the buffer / HTML, but the principle remains the same.
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