Modifying Metabase Code: Is it legit to modify FE code to add a PDF format option to the report download format list under the open source AGPL license?

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I suppose the heading's clear enough. I'm using the embed option provided by Metabase for Dashboards & Reports and I'd like a PDF download option with it.

Would it be allowed to modify the frontend code to add this option under the open-source AGPL license?

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The metabase team is already working on such a functionality

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Would potentially get out on release 47

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Hi @TonyC,

Thanks for the reply!

I'm implementing a custom solution to download large tabular reports as PDFs. The estimated PDF page count ranges from 10k to 40k. For this, we've implemented the PDF generation code in a BE service and used that in conjunction with the Metabase BE through nginx(for path-based routing) as it has a considerable memory overhead.

In my understanding, the PNG option would be available for graphical dashboards only.

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You should contribute your code if you’re using this for commercial purposes

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Certainly @Luiggi, I can arrange that.

Are we required to push both the FE update as well as the BE service?

Our BE service uses Django, DRF for web-related functionality, and ReportLab for PDF generation.

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sorry, I didn't get this: will you modify the Metabase code at some point?

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Yes, we intend to do that.

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if that's the case, you'll need to contribute that code to the project

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Thanks for the support and clarity… this was really helpful.