Fill PDF Plugin

RE: Fill PDF Plugin

andyy984706 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:13:12 GMT

Great plugin. Very useful when working with PDFs. It’s similar to how the online tool pdfguru.com/.../w-2-form I use for filling out PDF forms works, which, of course, makes the process much easier. It saves a ton of time and makes working with documents far more convenient. Various online tools and plugins definitely allow you to automate routine tasks, which is really great.

RE: Fill PDF Plugin

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 28 May 2024 13:52:41 GMT

Fill PDF is great! It replaces the clunky "fill out a thousand individual fields with expression code" from the older "PDF from Template" plug-in, with a simpler setup into which you can pass an expression (for sanity's sake, you MUST use an expression rule) - but after this, IIRC, all it needs to do is return a list of key:value pairs, where the key names are "name" and "value". The "name" values must be the PDF field (internal) names, as you'd get by running the "getPdfFields()" rule on the PDF's document ID, and the "value" values would be simply the text you want filled. This gets passed into the "PdfField" configuration of the node.

The documentation included with the plug-in download is a little sparse but it at least clarifies on the "PdfField" data type structure.

And here's a working example of one of the expression rules we have in our system that populates a (200-field(!)) PDF. One of the major advantages of this setup of course is the ability to copy/paste code to handle entries that are massively repeated but differ by only an index number or similar (good for filling grids/lists/etc).

RE: Fill PDF Plugin

vedanks341679 — Mon, 27 May 2024 17:24:36 GMT

https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/pdf-tools# Please visit this and download it. You will get the proper documentation.

RE: Fill PDF Plugin

hrshkar — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:54:37 GMT

thanks for answering me ! Nope, it exists in my Appian environment by default

RE: Fill PDF Plugin

Stefan Helzle — Sun, 05 May 2024 18:58:49 GMT

Did you try to download the plugin from the app market? It should include documentation.