Generate Documents

Dynamically Generate documents using the PDF4me Generate Documents action for Make . Use Word or HTML templates using mustache syntax or merge fields as the source. The data sources can be JSON or XML.

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Parameters

File NameString, Required

The name of the PDF file

DocumentBuffer, Required

Word/Html template for generating documents

Template TypeEnum, Required
  • Word
  • Html
Output TypeEnum, Required

Generated document type

  • Pdf
  • Word
  • Excel
Input Data TypeEnum, Required

Data type of the template data

  • Json
  • Xml
Input DataString, Required

JSON / Xml data

Meta DataString (Optional)

JSON string User can specify fields that need some format.

Eg: Date

{        “FieldsMetaData”:[{“FieldName”:“dueDate”,“FieldType”:2,“FieldFormat”:“yyyyMMdd”}] }

Here FiledType is an enum having the below values

CheckBox = 0,
Html = 1,
DateTime = 2

Output

NameString

The name of the output file

Doc DataBuffer

Generated document

Generate Documents module in Make