How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

Chanakya Volam — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:01:25 GMT

You can follow instructions in the below link and you will be able to get the bearer token thru rest calls

https://developers.docusign.com/esign-rest-api/code-examples/config-and-auth#2-configure-client-and-request-authorization-code

Once you get the token you can pass it as part of header in your HTTP File download and you will be able to get the file from docusign

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

wendys8 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:32:20 GMT

Yes, including it in the header does work but I'm not sure how to configure it to get that token dynamically. I have a connected system and integration setup which works to handle the authentication and get the token, but I can't use the integration for the HTTP file download SS. For testing purposes I had been checking the integration to get the token and then just manually using it in the smart service.

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:41:44 GMT

Great news. After a quick look at the docuSign API it looks like the token should be included in the header. But this is just guessing as I have no actual experience with docuSign.

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

wendys8 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:32:51 GMT

This is working except I need to use a bearer token authentication. How can I configure this? (Use case is to download a doc from DocuSign)

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

Jim Schweitzer — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:58:44 GMT

You could try this plugin:

community.appian.com/.../download-document-from-url

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

Carlos Santander — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:28:56 GMT

Misread the question. Thanks for clarifying, Robert Shankin.

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 05:04:15 GMT

You might try to use the HTTP File Download smart service.

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

Robert Shankin — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:39:53 GMT

This option suggested by Carlos Santander would work for sending, but not receiving a document.

Consider retrieving the document as base64. There are a few shared components in the AppMarket that you might use to then convert this back into a doc.

RE: How to retrieve a PDF from a webservice response and convert it to an Appian document

Carlos Santander — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:28:46 GMT

Check out integration objects (https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.1/Integration_Object.html) and the auto-detect option for content type (https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.1/Integration_Content_Types.html#document-(auto-detect))