How to deploy Puppeteer WebKit manually

Puppeteer provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium-based browsers. This executable file is necessary to export the data visualization report items during report export. Without this, the data visualization report items no longer available in the report exported documents.

If you installed the build offline or skipped the packages during the build installation, you can manually install the puppeteer chromium packages by downloading below link

Installation for Windows:

Once the download is complete, extract the zip file and copy the chrome-win folder for Windows from the extracted location and paste it in the below mentioned deploy location.

Install Location:

Please place the copied chrome-win folder in the location. {Deployed Location}\Bold Reports\Embedded Reporting\Samples\ASP.NET Core\wwwroot\puppeteer\Win64-901912

Example:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Bold Reports\Embedded Reporting\Samples\ASP.NET Core\wwwroot\puppeteer\Win64-901912\chrome-win\chrome.exe

Installation for Linux:

step 1 : Once the download is complete, extract the zip file and copy the chrome-linux folder for Linux from the extracted location and paste it in the below mentioned deploy location.

Install Location:

Please place the copied chrome-linux folder in the location. {Deployed Location}\Bold Reports\Embedded Reporting\Samples\ASP.NET Core\wwwroot\puppeteer\Win64-901912

Example:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Bold Reports\Embedded Reporting\Samples\ASP.NET Core\wwwroot\puppeteer\Win64-901912\chrome-linux\chrome

step 2 : Run the below command lines