Best way to generate Document of Record for Adaptive forms, without using XDP as form template

[SmrithiG1]

Hi,

I am new to AEM forms, hence asking for directions.

We need to generate interactive PDF from Adaptive forms with form data. The PDFs needs to be downloaded on the user machine and not saved in AEM as it will have user and customer data.

I can understand from the below documentation that DoR can be generated in three ways:

How to generate a document of record (DoR) for AEM Forms? | Adobe Experience Manager

1. Could anyone suggest the best possible way to generate interactive PDF without using XDPs from Adaptive forms, as we      need to get rid of XDPs in future.

2. How to make the generated PDF from Adaptive forms accessible? 

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[Pranay_M]

Hi @SmrithiG1 ,

Based on your requirement, A common use case is to be able to download an interactive DoR with the Adaptive Form data. The downloaded DoR will then be completed using Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.

Please find below the document which can support your usecase: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-learn/forms/document-services/generate...

Thanks

Pranay

[SmrithiG1]

Thank you for sharing this @Pranay_M 

Here I can see that XDP template is used for downloading PDF.

Do you know if there is way to generate PDF without using the XDPs. 

[Pranay_M]

Hi @SmrithiG1 ,

The XDP only provides as a template that can be used to designed the layout for the output PDF and also can be used to apply styles to the documents as well.

Thanks

Pranay

[workflowuser]

Not possible without using xdp

[SmrithiG1]

Hi @workflowuser , Thank you for confirming.

We are currently using XDPs, but in future we want to completely stop using XDPs and only have Adaptive forms. But I can understand that for PDF generation we still need to use XDP templates.

Do we have any alternative method to generate dynamic PDFs from Adaptive forms in this scenario? 

[Pranay_M]

Hi @SmrithiG1,

AEM Forms allows you to generate a Document of Record (DoR) from Adaptive Forms. XDP's are only used as a template for generating dynamic PDF when using Adaptive form. This can be configured to use XFA templates (XDP files) as templates for the DoR which will bind the value being entered in the form with the template. 
The best alternative will be the AcroForms but they will not be helpful with the adaptive form usecase.

Thanks

Pranay

[SmrithiG1]

HI @Pranay_M thanks for your input.

We have XDPs with us, just the problem that we are facing is with form designer, as they are out dated. It is very hard to fix the installation issue with form designer for creating XDPs.

Hence we are trying and looking out for solution to prevent usage of XDPs, once the adaptive forms are ready to use. But we still need to generate interactive PDFs from Adaptive forms.

Once again, thanks for your input.