Saving XDP form in PDF format at the end of the process

[Former Community Member]

Hi,



I want to save my XDP form to a file system as PDF documents at the end of the workflow. There is a service writeDocument to writing PDF files, which accepts 2 parameters as input



pathname -- type : string

document -- type : document



In my workflow , I have an Xfaform variable which holds my form data.

But, as service requires the parameter as document I could not pass this variable to service. I tried to define a process variable of type document

and assign my xfaform variable to it, then pass this variable to the service. A pdf file is generated but not valid (1 k).



My question is how should I pass the variable to this service?



Thanks in advance



Regards



Cihan

[Jasmin_Charbonn]

The xfaForm variable usually contains a pointer to an XDP file. The XDP needs to be rendered by a service to create a PDF. You can then save the resulted PDF into a "document" variable and use that variable with the WriteDocument service.



I guess what I want to make clear is that there are extra step you need to take to get from XDP to PDF before you write it to the file system.



Jasmin

[Former Community Member]

Hi, Jasmin,



As you gess I miss the extra step which is using xdp pointer in xfaform variable as input of rendering service.



Thanks a lot for your grat help



King regards



Cihan Aydın