Print pdf showing {{body}}

[brian_pond]

The post above by @alkuhlani was very helpful, and led me to write this related post:

Print Preview Error {{body}}

This week, one of my clients and I discovered this problem, where PDF generation creates an empty page with {{ body }}. I want to discuss in detail, including the solution. As others have mentioned, when you try to print a PDF, ERPNext must write a document to a DocType named Access Log. That DocType has a related MySQL table named “tabAccess Log” If ERPNext cannot write a record to this table? Then the PDF generation fails. On your web browser, all you see is {{ body }}. That’s not helpf…