Overview
This plugins allows to generate DOCX files from a DOCX template and an XML data model from Appian. It also allows to convert a DOCX into PDF through an opensource (with limited capabilities) library.
Key Features & Functionality
This plug-in recently became unsupported by Appian and I was wondering if there is a good alternative? Our use case has 1 XML data model dynamically generated within the process to feed into the static Word doc.
I found Word doc from Template Smart Service but it does not have the XML data model as an input parameter.
Anyone has suggestions?
We are having the same issue when converting word to PDF, it looks like it's pasting all the text field values on top of each other towards the top of the document, rather than where they are supposed to go. Any word on a fix yet?
I am getting issues in the fields alignment , any solution? Using docx from template and converting to pdf, pdf not aligned properly
Facing similar issue related to compression and overlapping text. Have you found any solution or work around for this?
HI @llias, we exactly in the same boat and this seems to be not possible, please let me know if you find solution on this. thnx.
Hi Everybody,
we got the same issue about compressing multiple lines into one. We did a downgrade of the plugin.
Marco S.
Currently we have managed to inject plain text to MS Word, using XML files and the advanced templating plugin.
We need to have rich-edit box (by Vuram?), let the user customize text content (including pictures) and then inject the rich-text content into Microsoft Word, using the advanced templating plugin. Passing rich-text content through XML seems not feasible. Can you help?
Is there any updates on the issue with "Convert DOCX to PDF" compressing multiple lines into one? It's impacting us as well on the newer versions of this plugin.
For dynamic MS word generation features, Appian ADT (Advanced document templating) plugin provides ready functionalities. Can anyone confirm the Plugin will be backward compatible in higher versions after Appian version upgrades.
Hi,
I have tried to use a SVG file as the logo parameter to act as the input for "Image" field in DOCX From Dynamic Template smart service, but am facing an error when the node runs. The error is reflected as such:
freemarker.template.TemplateModelException: Method "public java.lang.String fr.opensagres.xdocreport.document.images.AbstractImageRegistry.getWidth(fr.opensagres.xdocreport.document.images.ImageProviderInfo,java.lang.String) throws java.io.IOException" threw an exception when invoked on fr.opensagres.xdocreport.document.docx.images.DocxImageRegistry object "fr.opensagres.xdocreport.document.docx.images.DocxImageRegistry@92d8c46". See cause exception.
The failing instruction:==> ${___ImageRegistry.getWidth(___imageI... [in template "fr.opensagres.xdocreport.document.docx.DocxReport@59d76500!word/header2.xml" at line 4, column 1343]
JPG and PNG files work fine. Is this a technical limitation of using this smart service and are there any other options for generating documents based on a word document template? Thank you.