HTML to PDF

Overview

Version 1.0.0 - Accepts inline and internal styles and also adds images in the PDF if they are publicly hosted. Based on content, multiple pages will be created in the PDF. The Smart Service will accept HTML files with properly closed tags including <br> and <img> tags otherwise the node will be errored out.

Version 2.0.0 - Everything with Version 1.0.0 and ability to generate PDF from HTML with landscape orientation.

Key Features & Functionality

Inputs

Source Document (Document) - The html file to be converted into PDF.
New Document Name (Text) - Name for the newly created PDF Document.
New Document Desc (Text) - Description of the output PDF Document.
Save In Folder (Folder) - Folder to which the output PDF Document to be saved in.

Outputs

New Document Created (Document) - The output PDF file.
Error Message (Text) - Error message received.
Error Occurred (Boolean) - Set to true on the occurrence of error.

Santhosh Kumar over 2 years ago in reply to Aparajita Singh

Please raise an Appian support ticket to uninstall the existing plugin and re-install it.
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Santhosh Kumar over 2 years ago in reply to jasmithak

Hi jasmithak,

Thanks for reporting the issue.

We will try to reproduce the issue and update the plugin if it exists.
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jasmithak over 2 years ago

More data is being truncated, and the produced PDF only has one page. Is there away to generate doc with more pages.
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Aparajita Singh over 2 years ago

The plugin is working as expected in dev and production but the plugin is failing and we are getting the following error is test environment:
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Chiara Gambone over 2 years ago

Hello, are there any examples of how to use the <img> with a document from Appian?
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Appian AppMarket over 2 years ago
v2.1.2 Release Notes
- Fixed the Log4j Compilation issue
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vigneshe over 2 years ago in reply to ben.crawley

Hi, ben.crawley,

We are working on this issue and upload the fix sooner.

Thanks,

Vignesh E
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vigneshe over 2 years ago in reply to jeank0002

Hi jeank0002,

We were working on the issue mentioned and will fix it in the next release

Thank you,

Vignesh E
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jeank0002 over 2 years ago in reply to ben.crawley

Hi Ben,

I am facing the same error.
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ben.crawley over 2 years ago in reply to Appian AppMarket

FYI, new version is throwing an error and pausing process execution:

2022-09-26 15:33:18,796 [Appian Work Item - 172 - WorkID 107 - execution02 - process 536871483 - model 1172 : UnattendedJavaActivityRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest - An error occurred while executing activity: id=536877167, classname=com.vuram.plugins.htmltopdfconversion.HtmlToPdfConversion
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
	at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor.createInstance(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:247)
	at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor.createActivityInstance(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:211)
	at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultUnattendedActivityExecutor.validate(DefaultUnattendedActivityExecutor.java:18)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.execute(UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.java:84)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequestResponseCreator.getJavaActivityResultResponse(UnattendedJavaActivityRequestResponseCreator.java:21)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.getJavaActivityResultResponse(UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.java:67)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.execute0(UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.java:55)
	at com.appiancorp.common.persistence.data.AppianDataUserContextProvider.executeWithConsistentDataReads(AppianDataUserContextProvider.java:143)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.ProcessContinuationRequest.executeOuter(ProcessContinuationRequest.java:68)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.ContinuationRequest.execute(ContinuationRequest.java:129)
	at com.appiancorp.process.workpoller.UnattendedRequestHandlerBean.onMessage(UnattendedRequestHandlerBean.java:36)
	at com.appiancorp.process.workpoller.WorkItem.run(WorkItem.java:110)
	at org.springframework.jca.work.SimpleTaskWorkManager$DelegatingWorkAdapter.run(SimpleTaskWorkManager.java:239)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)
Caused by: java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems: 
	The import org.apache.log4j cannot be resolved
	Logger cannot be resolved to a type
	Logger cannot be resolved
	Logger cannot be resolved to a type
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	at com.vuram.plugins.htmltopdfconversion.HtmlToPdfConversion.<init>(HtmlToPdfConversion.java:12)
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