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How to Save Quote PDF, Send PDF, Preview PDF in salesforce with custom functionality

Want to develop custom pdf viewer, save pdf in quote pdf related List and Send quote to customer on button click when quote is custom in salesforce. These functionality are standard from salesforce. but you can develop these functionality custom in salesforce. Here is the solution:-
Custom button to save Quote PDF and send PDF in salesforce
Custom button to save Quote PDF and send PDF 


Step 1:- First Create Two custom button. which will used for PDF preview and Save quote pdf in quotes pdf related list.
                             1. PDF preview Button
                             2. Save & Send Quote Button
PDF preview Button in salesforce

Replace "Your VF page here" to Your quote PDF cuatom page.

Step 2:- PDF preview button  pdf preview button will display the pdf's preview in standard format of salesforce. So you need to set the  following configuration (In picture).

PDF Preview button in salesforce

After that you have to paste the below code in TEXT box.

{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/24.0/connection.js")}
{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/24.0/apex.js")}

var pdfOverlay = QuotePDFPreview.quotePDFObjs['quotePDFOverlay'];
pdfOverlay.dialog.buttonContents = '<input value=\"Cancel\" class=\"btn\" name=\"cancel\" onclick=\"QuotePDFPreview.getQuotePDFObject(\'quotePDFOverlay\').close();\" title=\"Cancelar\" type=\"button\" />';

pdfOverlay.setSavable(true);
pdfOverlay.setPDFContents('/apex/Your VF PDF Name here?id={!Quote.Id}',null,null);
pdfOverlay.display();


Step 3:- Save and Send Quote Button  this button will save your your quote pdf in quotes pdf related list and send an email to customer. Hers you need to create a class with below code.

global class SaveandSendQuote
{
     webservice static String AttachPDFToQuote(string Id)
     {
        string retRes = '';
        try
        {
            PageReference pageRef = new PageReference('/apex/"Your quote pdf vf here"?Id='+Id);
          
            Blob content;

                if(!test.isrunningtest())
                content = pageRef.getContent();
            else
                content = Blob.valueOf( EncodingUtil.urlEncode('abc', 'UTF-8'));
              
            QuoteDocument doc = new QuoteDocument(Document = content, QuoteId = Id);
            insert doc;

            Quote ObjQuote = [select id,Name,Contact.name,email from quote where id = : Id limit 1];
          
            if(ObjQuote!=null)
            {
              
                if(ObjQuote.email!=null)
                {
                    Messaging.SingleEmailMessage Objemail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
                    Messaging.EmailFileAttachment ObjEmailFile = new Messaging.EmailFileAttachment();
                    list<String> LstEmailAddress = new list<String>();
                    string emailBody='';
          
                    ObjEmailFile.setFileName(ObjQuote.Name+' Quotation.pdf');
                    ObjEmailFile.setBody(content);
                    LstEmailAddress.add(ObjQuote.email);
                    retRes = ObjQuote.email;
                    emailBody = 'Hi '+ ObjQuote.Contact.name;
                    emailBody = emailBody + '\n' + '\n'+' \ Quote PDF here : '+ObjQuote.name;
          
                    Objemail.setSubject(ObjQuote.Name+' Quotation');
                    Objemail.setToAddresses(LstEmailAddress);
                    Objemail.setPlainTextBody(emailBody);
                    Objemail.setFileAttachments(new Messaging.EmailFileAttachment[] {ObjEmailFile});
          
                    Messaging.SendEmailResult [] r = Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage[] {Objemail});
                }
            }
          
            return retRes;
        }
        catch(exception ex)
        {
           retRes = 'Error While Sending Quote.';
           return retRes;
        }
    }
}


Now Create a custom button with following configuration. In pictures.
Save PDF custom button in salesforce


In Text box of this button paste the below code:-

{
 !REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/29.0/connection.js")
} {
 !REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/29.0/apex.js")
}

if ("{!Quote.Status}" != "Pending") {
 if ("{!Quote.Email}" != "") {
  var result = sforce.apex.execute('SaveandSendQuote', 'AttachPDFToQuote', {
   Id: "{!Quote.Id}"
  });

  if (result == "Error While Sending Quote.") {
   alert(result);
   window.location.reload();
  } else {
   alert("Quote sent to : " + result);
   window.location.reload();
  }
 } else {
  alert("Please update Email id Of Contact Person");
  window.location.reload();
 }
} else if ("{!Quote.Status}" == "Draft") {
 alert("Quote has been sent already");
 window.location.reload();
} else {
 alert("Please take approval on line items before sending Quote");
 window.location.reload();
}

We have completed the process now you can test your functionality.
PDF preview will like this :-
PDF preview in salesforce
Custom quote pdf preview salesforce

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