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susmethaasirir1117
susmethaasirir1117
Participating Frequently
Jul 16, 2021 10:54 AM UTC
Question

Edit PDF

Feature Request -

We do have a document viewer  to view the PDF and the documents. Do we have feature to edit Documents/PDF online within the SAIL interface and save it.

In the a!dataTime() field, Can we have  any control to disable only time or set time to default value

1 reply

mikes0011
mikes0011
Brainy
Jul 16, 2021 2:13 PM UTC

The only method I know of to do live edits to a PDF in an Appian form is to use an integration like Adobe Sign, where the user isn't looking at a locally-stored PDF but rather a template that's been pre-loaded on Adobe's server.  This is a good solution when your process requires users to actually fill and sign documents, but likely too complicated and/or expensive for simple "fill out a few entries in a PDF" use cases.

Instead I would suggest you have the user provide data into standard Appian inputs, then use Appian to populate the PDF with the user's entered data.  This is quite a bit more user-friendly and flexible; you can do validation on the data entered, allow the user to preview and/or retry if they don't like the initial PDF for some reason, etc.  Is there any particular reason this approach won't work for you?

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