Printing a narrative based JS visualisation

Question

Has anyone managed to get a JS visualisation from a 3rd party library such as D3 or Kendo to print? Was looking into converting an svg into an image on the server side but wasn't getting anywhere. Using Kendo it is quite easy to allow a user to save a chart/vis as a PDF or Image but not to render it in the page.

Gianni Ceresa · Answer

So you really want to push OBIEE do things it doesn't like to do

Didn't test in details but PDF printing generally understand text, basic html and probably images (real images). But it can't generate the image based on JS code for you as that's what the browser would do. So if you manage to generate a real static image you will be fine. I really wouldn't bet a lot on the ability to understand and execute JS code and that's where you will be blocked as everything would require some form of JS code.

Daniel Willis · Answer

Yeah sorry forget to mention PDF. Was thinking it might also let me pull into Smartview as well. I seem to have fetish for trying to beat the system when it comes to OBIEE

Gianni Ceresa · Answer

Which one of the few print options you mean?

Because exports and PDF printing will not make it as it's done by OBIEE, but HTML print must be fine as it's your browser managing it and your browser understand how to render the JS code.