Exporting an interactive table into a pdf file

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It would be great if there was an option to export an interactive table into a pdf file in addition to the csv file option.

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Thank you for the suggestion.

Are you asking for this because it takes time to import the CSV and print a spreadsheet? What’s your use case for the printed PDF once you get it?

This is not on our nearterm roadmap, but we encourage folks to upvote the suggestion as we look at votes to inform prioritization

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Hey Olga.
Often our users would like pdf format instead of exporting into a human-unreadable CSV, then formatting to excel and then printing it into a PDF.
A PDF file is a more reader friendly but most importantly it is “read-only” and harder to manipulate with than a table in excel.

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Got it thank you. Especially the “read-only” aspect makes sense.

@HCEH one way we prioritize such requests across Customers and Product Areas is to ask for “time saved” - we’d like to give teams more time to focus on what matters.

In this case there’s a workaround of exporting to CSV then printing to PDF from Excel

Understand that’s a bit cumbersome - how much time/how many requests do you estimate you or your coworkers get here, that having a direct export to PDF would save?

Also, for context, we’d love to know a bit more about the kind of data exported and why having it not be editable is important. Please feel free to loop in your CSM and have a live conversation with us as well, if that’s easier or anything is sensitive.

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Thanks @OlgaStroilova
Not all our operators are IT people, and we cannot expect them to be proficient with formatting different files. They are experts in their domain on the shopfloor and not office tools. For that matter we have even made a guideline how to convert csv to excel, but still many support cases arise. Having an extra step to convert from excel to pdf just adds to the complexity.
And since we use Tulip globally, different characters/signs in various languages are always posing a problem to successful conversion.
I don’t have exact time-saving numbers, since it depends from operator to operator. But I believe that my description above is sufficient for you to realise the challenge for our Tulip users.

Having a read-only pdf is helpful when addressing data integrity of the data export from the system. These pdf files can be used used in GxP decision making or as an appendix to various reports.

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This is very helpful detail, we appreciate it. I’ll forward it to the team for review.

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