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Overview
Contains multiple Smart Services and Functions for interacting with PDF Documents.
Key Features & Functionality
Smart Services:
Functions:
Find Pages with Text - Retrieves an array of page numbers that contain a specified search string within the PDF
Pratiksha, was this plugin previously deployed in your environment? If so, was the cdt "PdfField" every manually modified via XML?
There seems to be a conflict in the cdt version defined in the plugin and in your environment. I would recommend deleting that cdt from your environment, then re-deploying the plugin. See the bullet in the Edit section of the Data Type Plugin documentation, removing the conflicting cdt should allow the plugin to manually recreate a fresh cdt.
We are experiencing this same error on-premise with Appian 20.4.215.0 using pdftools-2.2.9.jar
Hi Druva Kota,
This plugin is not getting deployed to our cloud environment [Appian Version 20.3].
Deployment Error:
2020-12-21 10:56:26,280 [ajp-nio-0.0.0.0-8009-exec-4469] ERROR com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager - There was an error loading the descriptor 'Fill PDF' of plugin 'pdftools'. Disabling. com.atlassian.plugin.PluginException: com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianRuntimeException: com.appiancorp.process.admin.IncompatibleSmartServiceRegistrationException: The Smart Service Module was invalid: Illegal attempt to change the data type for smart service pdftools.FillPDFPauseOnError, input or output named PdfFields (APNX-1-4104-005)
Michael Chirlin - thanks, any chance Appian might come up with a remedy for this issue on the plug-in side?
FYI i didn't see your reply initially since Community apparently doesn't want to notify me for basic replies here.
Hi Mike,
Can you please tell me how do I configure fill PDF tool pluggin ? I need to create an editable form. Users will fill that pdf form with required values and submit. After submitting , we can download that newly edited pdf.
We recently upgraded to 20.3 and this plugin was dropped from our environments. A suitable alternative for our use-case was the smart service named PDF Doc From Template. (Use a PDF template to populate data into and save as a PDF file in Appian)
This error will show up when there is a versioning issue with the plugin cdt. If you look in your tomcat-stdout logs you'll see the actual issue.
Support will point you to https://community.appian.com/.../kb-1097-illegal-attempt-to-change-the-data-type-for-smart-service-x-x-x-input-or-output-named-name-error-thrown-during-plugin-deployment
We are using the PDFBox library to insert the fields into the PDF.
You may be running into this issue:
stackoverflow.com/.../form-field-values-set-with-pdfbox-not-visible-in-adobe-reader
This plugin is using the PDFBox java library: https://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/2.0.7/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/text/PDFTextStripper.html
If you are seeing issues, they will be present in that library and not fixable directly in the plug-in.
Was your question on how to modify this plug-in so that you can redeploy it on your environment?