Hi all,
I have generated a bar code. Is there any way i can append the bar code in pdf document ? the older links in previous discussions doesn't seem to work. Please help.
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Hi,
you can use the PDF Tools (available at the App Market).
Use the 'Create PDF' smart service to create PDF-document containing the bar code and then the 'Merge' service to merge the two PDF-documents together.
We have done this in similar case and it worked.
Hi Chaitra_joshi,
I recently did this as well. My requirements was to create a label with some text and include a barcode. After generating the bar code, I used the DOCX From Dynamic Template smart service from the Advanced Document Templating plug-in (https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/advanced-document-templating), then PDF'd the generated docx with the PDF from DOCX smart service found with the Dynamic Document Generator (https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/dynamic-document-generator)
I hope this helps.
hi,
what do you input in xml datamodel ? Can you please help me here?
I Am facing difficulty in creating document from DOCX From Dynamic Template smart service from the Advanced Document Templating plug-in.
Hi juergeng393,
Will we be able to create pdf using the bar code generated in the same process model ? Please let me know the approach. How will create pdf smart service take generated bar code and append it ? Please let me know.
What should exactly go in contents field in create pdf if the bar code image generated is pv!barCodeImage. please let me know :) Thanks in advance
I would suggest searching the forum for help on using this plugin. There are many discussions and helpful tips.
For my docx template, I simply used was the template provided in the zip from downloading the plugin in the App Market and modified according to my needs.
Of course you can have this happening in one process model with a couple of nodes.
First Node: Create PDF with the bar code image using the CreatePDF smart service.You might specify a rule fetching the bar code image its storage location. e.g. =rule!getBarcodeImage.
Second Node: MergePDF - you merge the bar code pdf with any other existing pdf on the Appian PlatformInput here are Documents: two process variables containing the pdfs you like to merge. And don't forget to specify under output the 'New Document Created'
Hope that helps.
Okay i get the way now. I am trying to do it. But can you please let me know what should go in Contents field in create pdf Smart Service ? I am not sure if am giving right input in "Contents" input field.
Thank you very much juergeng393
In the content field of the PDF create node you put in the =rule!getBarcodeImage. This rule should fetch your image from the document location in Appian.