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JimHarrison
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1 year ago
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Document Template Source Engine?

Looking to see if anyone has knowledge of the engine Quickbase is using in the Document Template (Doc Gen) feature?  Reason: We are hand editing the source to gain control over the layout. Each time...
  • JimHarrison's avatar
    7 months ago

    Quickbase is using CKEditor as their pdf engine. I wrote up a list of lessons learned when you first asked in the reply and when I hit the reply button, the community forum deleted my response and logged me out.

    In short
    - use the source and ignore the editor
    - split everything into divs
    - for layout spacing, margins, padding use in. (inches) everywhere % doesn't work
    - set the table properties first on the entire table and then for each cell
    - If you have a page break in the middle of a list or table that is random. Insert a div where the break occurs and see if it clears the break. CKEditor does things with styling sometimes. 
    <div style="height:0;">&nbsp;</div>

    I cannot waste time on this forum anylonger because of the logout problems.