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

Michael Chirlin over 2 years ago in reply to lesliem

Could you please share a sample document that could be used for testing?
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lesliem over 2 years ago

Hello,

We are experiencing an error in our production environment "org.docx4j.openpackaging.exceptions.Docx4JException: Exception exporting package", after upgrading Appian to 22.3 and the plugin to 2.0.1. I see Sasi S mentioned this a month ago, but don't see a response other than a new version. Is there something else we should upgrade to get this functionality to work?
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lesliem over 2 years ago in reply to Sasi S

We are getting the same error after upgrading to 22.3 and upgrading the plugin to 2.0.1. Have you been able to fix this error?
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Chiara Gambone over 2 years ago

Hello, I am trying to use "PDF from XSL-FO Transformation with Fonts Smart Service" for the first time without success. I detailed my struggles in the following community post: https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/plug-ins/26324/damaged-file-pdf-from-xsl-fo-transformation-with-fonts

If anyone with experience with the Smart Service can offer some guidance it would be greatly appreciated.
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Appian AppMarket over 2 years ago
v2.0.1 Release Notes
- Security Updates
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vijaym19 over 2 years ago

Hello Team,

We are facing issue with pdf from html smart service in Appian version 22.3

Getting error as "java.lang.NullPointerException". Can you please guide on same
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Sasi S over 2 years ago

Hi,
In the Appian version 22.3, The smart service PDF FROM MULTIPLE DOCX (NO FONTS) is not working.
We are facing this error - Plugin Error org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.NotOfficeXmlFileException: No valid entries or contents found, this is not a valid OOXML (Office Open XML) file

Is there anything we can try out?
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Sasi S over 2 years ago

Hello, On using PDF FROM MULTIPLE DOCX (NO FONTS) and PDF FROM SINGLE DOCX (WITH FONTS) smart services which worked well in version - 1.8.5. After updating to the latest version- 2.0.0, we are facing this error - "org.docx4j.openpackaging.exceptions.Docx4JException: Exception exporting package", which worked in version -1.8.5.

Could you please help us with this issue?
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Brenden over 2 years ago

Hello, we're attempting to use the "Word Doc from Template" Smart Service on a Merged document, but the smart service only replaces the placeholder from the first document that was merged.

For example if we have 3 docs with placeholders, merge them, then run the Word Doc from Template Smart Service the output document will only have the placeholders in the content from the first document replaced in the final merged version. We've checked all of the formatting of the placeholders and everything looks correct.

Any idea what might be causing this?
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jeffg0002 over 2 years ago in reply to jeffg0002

If Apache FOP is running in a so-called "headless" environment then SVG rendering will fail. That is the problem I bet.
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