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AlexanderWillet
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AlexanderWilletAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
October 16, 2015
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FormsService renderPDFForm how to use an xdp from repository?

  • October 16, 2015
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Hi,

I would like to use the renderPDFForm method from the FormsService to render a PDF. As input I would like to use an XDP stored in the crx repository. This is a very plain use case I think. To my surprise the renderPDFForm method accepts as input parameter only a filesystem path or a url. (see http://helpx.adobe.com/aem-forms/6/javadocs/com/adobe/fd/forms/api/FormsService.html)

To feed an xdp from repository into that method it would be necessary to

a) load the xdp from repository and temporaily store it to the filesystem to be able to use a filesystem path or

b) compose a url like http://localhost:4502/content/dam/forms/testform.xdp to be able to use a url.

Both approaches are not very elegant. a) doubles all forms in an external filesystem and b) causes lots of trouble because of anonymous access and acl restrictions.

Can someone please outline me a best practice?

Btw: the corresponding OutputService.generatePDFOutput() accepts a docmanager document as input xdp. This can easily be created from a content path and works fine.

Any help is appreciated!

Cheers

Alex

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ベストアンサー nitinn18425437

Hi Alex,

Yes, you can access xdp from repository also in renderPDFForm. renderPDFForm recognizes crx:// prefix. So, if you specify path as crx:///content/dam/forms/testform.xdp    ,renderPDFForm will read xdp at /content/dam/forms/testform.xdp in the repository.

 

Thanks

Nitin

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althea_uxa
althea_uxa
October 16, 2015

Great, just what I was searching for.

N
nitinn18425437回答
Level 2
October 16, 2015

Hi Alex,

Yes, you can access xdp from repository also in renderPDFForm. renderPDFForm recognizes crx:// prefix. So, if you specify path as crx:///content/dam/forms/testform.xdp    ,renderPDFForm will read xdp at /content/dam/forms/testform.xdp in the repository.

 

Thanks

Nitin

AlexanderWillet
Adobe Employee
AlexanderWilletAdobe Employee作成者
Adobe Employee
October 16, 2015

Yeah, this works!

Thank's for the quick response and this tip.

Alex

DarrenBiz
DarrenBiz
Level 6
October 16, 2015

nitin.nizhawan wrote...

Hi Alex,

Yes, you can access xdp from repository also in renderPDFForm. renderPDFForm recognizes crx:// prefix. So, if you specify path as crx:///content/dam/forms/testform.xdp    ,renderPDFForm will read xdp at /content/dam/forms/testform.xdp in the repository.

 

Thanks

Nitin

 

Hi Nitin,

I think this is a very important use case and should be much better documented within the API. Can we start getting some of these things that seem obvious to the development team put into the API as notes or examples? I know there is a tradition with Livecycle API's to be sparsely documented, but we need these kinds of things noted by the developers to save us a lot of time.

Thanks

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