Problem exporting PDF document

[Former Community Member]

I have a form implemented as a PDF form and would like to add a workflow step to my process so that the PDF form can be sent as an email attachment. Based on a previous posting, it seems that I need to use the RepositoryServices Read Resource Content operation to get the PDF form from the repository and add it to a process variable of type document. When I do this I get an type coercian error that states: "Cannot coerce object: com.adobe.idp.taskmanager.form.impl.xfa.XFARRepositoryFormInstance@15bb014 of type com.adobe.idp.taskmanager.form.impl.xfa.XFARRepositoryFormInstance to type class.lang.Boolean



I'm setting the Input Resource Uri to the literal value "/BDI_DEV/forms_BDI REP Form.pdf" and the Output variable to a varaible of type document - which as far as I can tell from the documentation should be correct. For some reason, however, the error message seems to indicate that the system is attempting to store the repository object in a boolean - I do have a process variable of type boolean, but the output variable I've selected is of type document.

[Former Community Member]

looks like the variable mapping in the output of the read resource content is not of the correct type,can you please make sure it is of type document?

[Former Community Member]

The output parameter is definately of type document. Here's the error as reported in the log file:



2007-12-25 15:44:01,734 ERROR [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor] RuntimeException in method: public abstract java.lang.Object com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.adapter.EjbTransactionCMTAdapterLocal.doRequiresNew(com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.TransactionDefinition,com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.TransactionCallback) throws com.adobe.idp.dsc.DSCException:

ALC-DSC-119-000: com.adobe.idp.dsc.util.InvalidCoercionException: Cannot coerce object: com.adobe.idp.taskmanager.form.impl.xfa.XFARepositoryFormInstance@1f8ca10 of type: com.adobe.idp.taskmanager.form.impl.xfa.XFARepositoryFormInstance to type: class java.lang.Boolean

at com.adobe.idp.dsc.util.CoercionUtil.toBoolean(CoercionUtil.java:117)

[Former Community Member]

can you send me the process xml to mergeandfuse@gmail.com

I will take a look and let you know asap

thanks

[Former Community Member]

"WorkflowUser" was finally able to help me resolve the problem with creating a PDF document that can be saved to file or mailed to somebody - here's how he told be to configure things to get this working:



1. I created a process variable called XMLData of type xml.

2. I created a process variable called XMLDataDoc of type document.

3. I created a process variable called RenderedForm of type document.

4. I added a SetValue service step in which the following mappings were created:

- /process_data/XMLData is set to /process_data/REPForm/object/data/xdp

- /process_data/@XMLDataDoc is set to /process_data/XMLData

5. I added a renderPDFForm step using the FormsService. In this the following input and output parameters were configured:

- "Form to Render" was set to a literal value referencing the form template - i.e. BDI_DEV/forms/BDI REP Form.pdf

- "Form Data" was set to the XMLDataDoc variable.

- The "Content Root URI" field under "URL Options" was set to "repository:/

- The "Rendered Form" output section was set to reference the variable "RenderedForm".



This then allowed me to email the document using the RenderedForm variable.

[Sedat_Reyhan]

Hi,



I really do the same. But always get "ContentRootURI not specified" error. Could you help?



Sedat,