PDFResult download - set the filename

💡 Feature Requests
1

Hello,
Before raising a feature request i wanted to check if it was possible to set a default filename for a PDFResult download? The API docs don’t show a output_filename or similar parameter.
Thanks

2

Hi Niko,

This is currently not possible. Therefore, I will add this post to the feature request category.

As a workaround you could change the setting of your browser to ‘ask where to save each file before downloading’ (chrome://settings/downloads, there is a similar checkbox in Firefox). This will allow you to change the filename.

Regards,

Raoul

3

Hello Raoul, I have my browser set to do this but think it would be good feature to be able to set by code. Thanks

4

Hi Ian,

I would likt to mention that a workaround can be to implement a VIKTOR DownloadButton to download the PDF. This would allow you to set a custom filename.
Only drawback is that the pdf needs to be recreated in memory, so i long does it take the pdf to be created?

5

I’ll keep that in mind, the pdf doesn’t take long to generate in this case but that could change so not reloading would be preferable.

6

Any update on this feature request? Would be very useful for reporting. An extra download button is confusing to our users, aside from the frustrating added time to re-generate larger PDF’s.