Dynamic Document Generator

Overview

This version is for Appian 23.2 and above. Cloud customers on a lower version of Appian that want to install this plugin should open a support case. Self-managed customers can find the latest jar for Appian 23.1 and lower version in the folder pre-23.2

Convert, merge and generate DOCX, PDF and XML files automatically in an Appian process

Key Features & Functionality

  • PDF from single DOCX with Fonts
    • Convert multiple DOCX files into a single PDF. Please note that the translation from DOCX to PDF is not always 1:1. The template may need to be tweaked or simplified to achieve the desired results.
  • PDF from DOCX without Fonts
    • Convert multiple DOCX files into a single PDF. Please note that the translation from DOCX to PDF is not always 1:1. The template may need to be tweaked or simplified to achieve the desired results. This will not support fonts.
  • PDF from XSL-FO Transformation
    • Uses XSLT to convert an XML to XSL-FO which is then converted to PDF
  • PDF from HTML
    • Converts an HTML document into a single page PDF.
  • PDF from HTML Transformation
    • Uses XSLT to convert an XML to HTML which is then converted to PDF
  • Text Doc from XSLT
    • Uses XSLT to convert an XML to a plain text document (such as HTML, another XML doc, etc).
  • DOCX from XHTML With Styling
    • Converts a valid XHTML file into a DOCX, allowing you to provide your own template file for style reference. Useful for creating dynamic documents that are editable
  • DOCX Merge
    • Merges one or more DOCX files together. If a header or footer exists in any document, they will be removed during the merge process.
    • A configurable separator can be specified: none, line break or page break

Function: xsltransform - Transform source XML using XSL Transform

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  • Hi Team,

    Working on "HTML Doc from Template" smart service to generate a HTML page and "PDF from HTML" smart service to generate PDF, HTML to PDF conversion is working fine when there are few records but when I have tested for around 2500 records, server crashed and there were logs with message "server's heap running out of memory".

    Appian version is 23.4

    So, I went with another approach, where I will be splitting the data based on a category and generating multiple PDF's and merging them with "Merge PDF" smart service.

    Could you please let me know all the limitations related to smart services "PDF from HTML" smart service and "Merge PDF"


    Thank you
    Madhu

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  • Hi Team,

    Working on "HTML Doc from Template" smart service to generate a HTML page and "PDF from HTML" smart service to generate PDF, HTML to PDF conversion is working fine when there are few records but when I have tested for around 2500 records, server crashed and there were logs with message "server's heap running out of memory".

    Appian version is 23.4

    So, I went with another approach, where I will be splitting the data based on a category and generating multiple PDF's and merging them with "Merge PDF" smart service.

    Could you please let me know all the limitations related to smart services "PDF from HTML" smart service and "Merge PDF"


    Thank you
    Madhu

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