PREVIEW: Custom PDF Templates for OpenBOM Export Function

Oleg Shilovitsky
Oleg Shilovitsky
30 April, 2021 | 2 min for reading
PREVIEW: Custom PDF Templates for OpenBOM Export Function

As much as we love having information online, not everyone is ready to use a browser to access data. While we like to think of ourselves as being fully in a digital age the truth is that some areas of our lives still benefit from an analog world. 

A perfect example would be some documents such as BOMs that can be used on the shop floor that are printed directly on paper. Another example are some financial processes in purchasing that require you to send POs attached to the email or print it. 

3 Exporting Formats Coming Your Way!

We’ve been thinking about this a lot at OpenBOM and we’ve come up with a solution which provides an export function to get the data out of OpenBOM in three flexible formats – CSV, XLS and PDF. The last one (PDF) was using some predefined template and we’ve been getting many requests to customize it. 

I’m super excited to share that the feature of PDF export customization is coming in the next production update.

How does the PDF Export Customization Work? 

When you select the PDF option, you will have a way to download an existing HTML template used for the export and customize it using any HTML editor. Once it is done, you can upload it to OpenBOM and select the option to use a custom template. That’s it! After that, OpenBOM will use a custom HTML template to create a PDF in the new format. 

Please watch the video with the preview to give you an idea of how this feature will work. 

Conclusion 

Flexibility is always top of mind here at OpenBOM. We believe flexibility is the key element of our strategy. Adding a custom HTML template for Export function, we’re solving an important painpoint for many customers – how to use OpenBOM and communicate with the rest of companies and suppliers that are still not ready to work online and need to have custom PDF documents formatted according to their requirements. 

Register for FREE to try OpenBOM today. 

Best, Oleg

Related Posts

Also on OpenBOM

4 6
15 September, 2025

NEWTON, Mass., Sep 16th, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — OpenBOM, a leading provider of cloud-native PDM and PLM software, today announced the...

12 September, 2025

In modern manufacturing, data is the new infrastructure. From design to procurement, from production planning to supplier collaboration, every process...

11 September, 2025

Earlier last week, I shared a series of articles about the main principles and elements of the OpenBOM data model.....

10 September, 2025

This article is the next chapter in the OpenBOM Data Model 2025 Update series. If you’re new to the series,...

9 September, 2025

This article is the next chapter in my ongoing blog series about OpenBOM Data Management. In the first chapters, I...

6 September, 2025

Modern engineering and manufacturing teams don’t sit under one roof anymore. They are increasingly distributed across different offices, time zones,...

5 September, 2025

In my recent article, OpenBOM Data Model (2025 Update): A High-Level Overview, I introduced the foundations of the OpenBOM Data...

4 September, 2025

In the last few weeks, we’ve been building in public and sharing the progress of OpenBOM BOM Excel MCP —...

3 September, 2025

We live in a digital world and data has become the most valuable business asset. Whether you are designing a...

To the top