# Inserting a Perspective View into Report Module **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [October 3, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171 "2025-10-03T12:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ben-i.penti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@ben-i.penti](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ben-i.penti)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171/1 "2025-10-03T12:33:30Z")
I currently have a perspective view with a flex repeater that is dynamically generating multiple apex chart box and whisker plots. I want to be able to take those box and whisker plot apex charts in the flex repeater instances that the user is generating in their perspective session and implement them into report that I am trying to make. Is there a way to take a perspective component and pass it into report module or turn a perspective component into an image or just pass a perspective component into report module. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171/2 "2025-10-03T12:34:53Z")
No, web technologies and PDF technologies are utterly different. ---
**Author:** ![ben-i.penti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@ben-i.penti](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ben-i.penti)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171/3 "2025-10-03T13:42:34Z")
Is there any way in the report module to be able to implement apex chart / more specifically a box and whisker plot. So that I could recreate the box and whisker plot in report module. If not do you have any other recommendations for alternatives to reports. ---
**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171/4 "2025-10-03T13:58:38Z")
I have never tried a box and whisker in a report, but it doesn’t seem like you can. You might could use a print request on the view. [Component Events and Actions | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/perspective/working-with-perspective-components/component-events-and-actions#request-print-action) ---
**Author:** ![ben-i.penti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@ben-i.penti](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ben-i.penti)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171/5 "2025-10-03T14:40:10Z")
How would I get the print request for the view to be implemented into the report then? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171/6 "2025-10-03T14:42:55Z")
> [@ben-i.penti](#): > > into the report then? You cannot. The user can simply print the view, guided by the script but with user participation, **in lieu of** printing a report. The rendered view only exists in your browser. Report generation occurs in the gateway. There is no mechanism (at all) that would render a view inside the gateway where a report could access it. ---
**Author:** ![jpark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jpark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jpark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171/8 "2025-10-05T18:32:00Z")
Embr charts has the ability to save a chart to an image. Can loop through, grab the images and put them into a dataset with the binary data. The report can then use the image component to display them. ---
**Author:** ![ben-i.penti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@ben-i.penti](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ben-i.penti)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inserting-a-perspective-view-into-report-module/111171/9 "2025-10-06T13:50:13Z")
I saw that Embr Charts can save images, with Apex charts having dataURI command. But I can’t figure out how to actually call the command to grab the images automatically.