Map WFFM Form fields in tabular format in PDF file

In one of our requirement, we have to save WFFM form fields data in PDF file so that WFFM fields data showed in tabular format.

 

I created WFFM form and created a new Save action under “/sitecore/system/Modules/Web Forms for Marketers/Settings/Actions/Save Actions”

My WFFM form looks as

Sample WFFM Form

I bind the newly created Save action to this WFFM form.

I am using iTextSharp to generate PDF file.

Here is the code for this Save Action.

using System;

using System.Linq;

using Sitecore.Data;

using Sitecore.WFFM.Abstractions.Actions;

using iTextSharp.text;

using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

using System.IO;

namespace SitecorePOCinMVC.Web

{

    public class MyCustomAction : ISaveAction

    {

        public ID ActionID { get; set; }

        public string UniqueKey { get; set; }

        public ActionType ActionType { get; private set; }

        public ActionState QueryState(ActionQueryContext queryContext)

        {

            return ActionState.Enabled;

        }

        public void Execute(ID formId, AdaptedResultList adaptedFields, ActionCallContext actionCallContext = null, params object[] data)

        {

            try

            {

                GeneratePDFFile(adaptedFields);

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                System.IO.File.AppendAllText("d:\\sitecoretext.txt", "PDF Error : -" + ex.Message);

            }

        }

        private void GeneratePDFFile(AdaptedResultList adaptedFields)

        {

            //Create document

            Document doc = new Document();

            //Create PDF Table

            PdfPTable tableLayout = new PdfPTable(4);

            //Create a PDF file in specific path

            PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, new FileStream(@"D:\Sample-PDF-File.pdf", FileMode.Create));

            //Open the PDF document

            doc.Open();

            //Add Content to PDF

            doc.Add(AddContentToPDF(tableLayout, adaptedFields));

            // Closing the document

            doc.Close();

        }

        private PdfPTable AddContentToPDF(PdfPTable tableLayout, AdaptedResultList adaptedFields)

        {

            float[] headers = { 40, 40, 0, 0 };  //Header Widths

            tableLayout.SetWidths(headers);        //Set the pdf headers

            tableLayout.WidthPercentage = 80;       //Set the PDF File witdh percentage

            //Add Title to the PDF file at the top

            tableLayout.AddCell(new PdfPCell(new Phrase("WFFM Generated Document", new Font(Font.NORMAL, 13, 1, new iTextSharp.text.BaseColor(153, 51, 0)))) { Colspan = 4, Border = 0, PaddingBottom = 20, HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER });

            //Add header

            AddCellToHeader(tableLayout, "Fields Name");

            AddCellToHeader(tableLayout, "User entered data");

            tableLayout.CompleteRow();

            foreach (var i in adaptedFields.ToList())

            {

                AddCellToBody(tableLayout, i.FieldName);

                AddCellToBody(tableLayout, i.Value);

                tableLayout.CompleteRow();

            }

            return tableLayout;

        }

        /// <summary>

        /// Method to add single cell to the header

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="tableLayout"></param>

        /// <param name="cellText"></param>

        private static void AddCellToHeader(PdfPTable tableLayout, string cellText)

        {

            tableLayout.AddCell(new PdfPCell(new Phrase(cellText, new Font(Font.NORMAL, 8, 1, iTextSharp.text.BaseColor.WHITE))) { HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER, Padding = 5, BackgroundColor = new iTextSharp.text.BaseColor(0, 51, 102) });

        }

        /// <summary>

        /// Method to add single cell to the body

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="tableLayout"></param>

        /// <param name="cellText"></param>

        private static void AddCellToBody(PdfPTable tableLayout, string cellText)

        {

            tableLayout.AddCell(new PdfPCell(new Phrase(cellText, new Font(Font.NORMAL, 8, 1, iTextSharp.text.BaseColor.BLACK))) { HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER, Padding = 5, BackgroundColor = iTextSharp.text.BaseColor.WHITE });

        }

    }

}

After executing this code, I can generate PDF file and able to save WFFM fields data in tabular format as

WFFM Generated PDF

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