topic Re: How to copy the recipe content to a PDF/documentation? in Workato Pros Discussion Board

How to copy the recipe content to a PDF/documentation?

alek-oleszkiewi — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:05:14 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to store a printed copy of our recipe for the documentation purposes, however, when printing using browser's print to PDF function, some of the elements that are deep nested into loops, ifs, etc. are cropped on the right.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to copy visual view of the recipies to the documentation?

Re: How to copy the recipe content to a PDF/documentation?

vijay-narsimha — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:12:11 GMT

I would recommend you to copy it from Dependency Graph for documentation.

Path for it > Dashboard--> Dependency Graph.

It will show all dependencies for recipe. Hope this helps

Re: How to copy the recipe content to a PDF/documentation?

justinmnorris — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:12:21 GMT

How about exporting a manifest of the recipes and storing on something like GitHub? (https://docs.workato.com/recipe-development-lifecycle/export.html)

This also depends on your use case. For example, if the goal is to have a Wiki for users to reference and understand what recipes exist, it could contain a summary of requirements and the "why" behind the recipe and some higher-level notes on technical architecture and the recipe design. This would arguably be more useful than a literal PDF representation.

Then if you want a comprehensive representation of every recipe step for whatever reason, the complete manifest would be more detailed and enable you to reimport the recipe in its current state if you ever needed to.

Re: How to copy the recipe content to a PDF/documentation?

alek-oleszkiewi — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:16:37 GMT

Thanks Vijay, that's good for dependencies, still I'd need to get the actual recipe content.

Re: How to copy the recipe content to a PDF/documentation?

alek-oleszkiewi — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:22:44 GMT

Hi Justin, thanks a lot. For users I already have a wiki-like explanation and I will use the manifest for migration to production, so it's a good idea to attach it to the docs as an attachement.

Still I'd like to have a detailed human-redeable documentation of the work done, that is visual and not depended on accessing Workto to see it, so it could be explained (or recreted) in a few years without the need to access Workato (who knows what tools will be used in the future).

Re: How to copy the recipe content to a PDF/documentation?

phil-mau — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:57:22 GMT

If you have Snagit, you could open up the recipe into edit mode, so it's fullscreen. From there you can zoom in/out to your desired capture width and then do a scrolling snapshot. Hope this helps!

Re: How to copy the recipe content to a PDF/documentation?

alek-oleszkiewi — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 17:40:06 GMT

Thanks Phil, you're a genius. I do have Snagit, and completely forgot about the scrolling capture option. Still I needed to alter the CSS to make the editor slightly wider, and now I have the image of the full flow.