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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Preview Report Designs as PDFs

Preview Report Designs as PDFs

Create a report design file.
You should always test the PDF output of your design within the Report Designer environment before you deploy it to Workday.
  1. Select
    Run
    View Report
    In Web Viewer
    . This action doesn't immediately generate a PDF. First, it produces a paginated HTML view.
  2. To display the PDF output, click
    Export Report
    . Select
    PDF
     as the
    Export Format
    . The
    Fit To
     option is set to
    Auto
     by default. In some cases, this default setting doesn't paginate the PDF correctly and selecting
    Actual Size
     achieves a better result.
    The PDF that this method generates is the closest match for the layout that the report design generates after it deploys to Workday. You can also generate a PDF by selecting
    Run
    View Report
    As PDF
    . This option immediately generates a PDF document that is quite close to the output that the Workday runtime generates. For example, it displays page breaks, allowing you to view the output for multi-page reports as individual pages within the PDF. However, report designs that include page numbers and JavaScript that depends on the use of event handlers might not display exactly as they would when deployed to Workday.