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Hi there.
We have a workflow that generates an E-Mail. Works great.
We'd like to generate a PDF of this e-mail for use later when we're able to figure out how to send an image to our imaging system using REST API.
From what I can see from the PDF smart object and/or the e-mail wizard in the K2 Designer (not studio) based workflow, there isn't a way to do this...am I missing something?
Any assistance/advice is appreciated.
Rob
Hello Rob,
I believe the OOTB PDF service broker and the SmartForms PDF controls were designed to generate a PDF file from a SmartForms or URL; and as such you will likely not be able to target this email. One thing that can be done is perhaps surfacing the content of this email in a SmartForms also, and as such you can use the PDF SmartObject to target this SmartForms URL and generate the PDF.
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That makes sense...but do you have any idea how you would surface that content in a smartform? I'm not seeing an immediate way to do that.
I assume the email template have to look a certain way and is pulling data back from a SmartObject data source; if so:
1. Perhaps a View/Form can be designed to mimic this email in its design
2. It will have some parameter to accept IDs
3. When the Form/View initialize, you would pass in these IDs and and call the appropriate SmartObjects to load these data
4. If this is all working and the View/Form loads the data and looks likes the email
5. Perhaps call the PDF Converter SmartObject in the workflow and pass it the URL (the IDs can be passed in a parameter and will dynamically tell the form which data to load) which will create a PDF of this Form/View containing the data
6. Then you can use the PDF File SmartObject to retrieve this PDF and add it to your imaging system
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