InvoiceNinja: Links don't work on PDF anymore

[pHneutre]

Why yes, I have been asked for a PDF with a clickable link so I provided . Now for an unclickable link (which does sound more appropriate indeed) (same expiration date).

[robi]

That is just underlined text, and not a link from my perspective (browser and Foxit Phantom PDF).

[girish]

@robi I think that's the bug, that invoiceninja is not creating links and instead creating underlines (maybe?)

[jdaviescoates]

@pHneutre said in InvoiceNinja: Links don't work on PDF anymore:

To edit the invoice template in IN: Parameters > Advanced > Invoice template (or model?) > Customize > select your template > Edit
To add a link: "body" tab and add it in the HTML as a <a href=""> tag.

I guess you're working in a non English language as I couldn't see anything about Parameters etc.

But I did just do this and links seemed to work fine:

Settings -> Invoice Design -> Custom Designs -> created a new custom design using Playful as the basis, then edited the Body to add a link and it worked:

PDF invoice with working link

[pHneutre]

@jdaviescoates Yes these were on-the-fly translations. And it seems that you couldn't reproduce my problem. Thanks for checking.

[nebulon]

I looked into this again and found that the href="" attribute needs to have a schema set. So https:// for example to render a clickable link. Maybe this is the difference? A browser would render it without a schema but maybe PDF viewers behave slightly different here.

[pHneutre]

@nebulon No luck. I always created links with a schema, and IN built-in links parameters (such as $view_url) don't work either. Plus, if you open the unclickable PDF with a PDF editor, no link is detected at all.

[girish]

I tried adding a footer and that does work as well:

[nebulon]

I think we are running out of ideas what the difference between the instances is.

[girish]

Maybe the demo https://my.demo.cloudron.io (username: cloudron password: cloudron) can be setup with a test setup ?

[robi]

Perhaps the translations are breaking the links.