PDF viewing and storage

[Greg Hains]

Good morning.

I have a solution that generates a PDF from a series of tables, appending various pages to the report.
Sending it via email is fine, even saving it to a fixed file location, but I am experiencing difficulty in being able to save it in a container field so the user should be able to click on it and view this PDF on the screen.
How do I save this please? I don't get an error in the solution (or script debugger), it just doesn't appear in the field.

Any suggestions please? Many thanks in advance too.

Greg

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Hi Greg. Create a filepath variable, eg $fpath = get(temporarypath) & "mypdf.pdf"

save the pdf to $fpath

then use the script statement  Insert PDF , using $fpath

 

 

[Greg Hains]

Hi there,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Getting the PDF file to save to a disk location hasn't been a problem ($fpath), but inserting it into a container field is eluding me. Unless I'm doing something wrong, the Insert PDF command only allows a string to be entered - file path etc - not a [container] field to copy/move it to.

What am I missing please?

Greg

[comment]

It's hard to tell what you're doing wrong when you don't show us exactly what you're doing.  If you're using Insert PDF, then you must make sure that:

• your file path begins with image, imagemac, imagewin, or imagelinux;
• the target container field is the active layout object;
• the selected instance of the container field is optimized for PDF.

For a scripted process like this, my preference would be to use Insert File, since it can work entirely at the data level. 

[Greg Hains]

Hi Comment,

I never had a problem creating the PDF or where it went - that was all fine - yep, I use the correct file path.
Target field was the active layout object too.
What was not working was the actual Insert PDF command. Debugging gave me a File Missing (100) error on that step whether I used variables or fixed locations. I tried many combinations.

I tried an Insert File instead and it worked fine first time. Thanks for that idea.
I'm not sure why Insert PDF is not working, and I will follow this up later.

Thank you for helping me get it working.

Greg

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I agree with Comment - insert File a smarter idea. This fine spring Pacific Northwest weather must be throwi

[Greg Hains]

Hi Iain,

Looks like you got cutoff, but yes, the Insert File worked whereas Insert PDF did not.
It's all happy now.

Thank you to everybody who helped me.

Greg