Enhancing OutSystems with Ultimate PDF Integration

Ultimate PDF enables developers to create dynamic PDF documents by merging customizable templates with data from their OutSystems applications. This tool simplifies the generation of reports, invoices, and other PDF-based documents, ensuring consistency and professionalism. Its seamless integration with OutSystems allows for efficient data mapping, reducing manual effort. With flexible templates, businesses can tailor outputs to their specific needs. Ultimate PDF is a powerful solution for streamlining document creation workflows.

Its primary features are :

Easy PDF Generation. This part makes the process of creating PDF files easier. Adaptable Templates. Developers can create and alter PDF templates to meet their own needs. Permit dynamic material (data) to be included in the PDFs that are produced. If you want end users to be able to extract information from applications generating a pdf file is a good option. It has an entity called Resume it has some attributes. Drag and drop the entity here at the main flow editor and built the details screen.

How to use it?

Basically, you have to download and install the plugin from Forge directly from the application. You may find it under your application's manage dependencies section, where it will then display actions for you to take. This will accept the URL of the page you wish to export in PDF format, and return the PDF file. Let's add a button to the screen that users can click to access a PDF file. When they do so, you can supply the logic to call the function in this case, Print by first searching for the file and then the URL of the page. Then, in the URL, we want to pass the URL of the current page. If you explore the built-in functions, you'll see that there are a few built-in functions for interacting with URL. This Get BookmarkableURL option is the one that provides us with the URL of the current page. In this case, if we call it, it will run the current page's URL. After that, we'll replace this end with the download function here, enabling us to generate a file. Here, in the content, we'll get the output from the function above, and we can give it a name—for example, "Report.PDF"—that is either dynamic or just hardcoded. Once the extension is PDF, we can publish it.

Key points

Dynamic Document Creation: Generate PDFs like reports and invoices by merging customizable templates with OutSystems app data.

Customizable Templates: Tailor designs to suit business needs while maintaining consistency and professionalism.

Efficient Integration: Simplifies data mapping, reducing manual effort and enhancing productivity.

Streamlined Workflows: A powerful tool for creating high-quality documents within modern applications.

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