hello Robert,

Thank you for the insight , is there a way to generate pages from the workflow SDK?

And if not, will it be available in the upcoming versions ?

Regards.

okay, Thank you Robert.

Does SDK 10.2 have this feature?

Dear Laserfiche Support, please let me know if this feature now available with SDK 10.2 version or not ?

Does SDK 10.2 include this feature ? 

It does not.

Dears,

Is there any update? When will SDK (or Workflow) support generating pages?

We are currently looking into making PDF page generation functionality available as part of Distributed Computing Cluster (DCC). I don't have an ETA yet but I will post one when there is more info to share. Thanks for everyone's patience on this - I know it has been a long-requested feature. 

Thank you , but please make it available from SDK.

Is Generate Pages available from workflow as a task or from SDK?

Thanks,

Julie

Not yet - we're still working on making it available in Workflow via Distributed Computing Cluster (DCC). Would you mind sharing your use case?

Hi Tessa-

A use-case, though it might be a bit obscure. Files get printed in batch from an ERP system; we have a secondary "printer" set up to print a copy to file server. They're all plain text but we want to generate actual images in Laserfiche. If each TXT file represented a single LF document--as is the case in a similar but different process--I can push those to Word via WF and then save as PDF.

For the print batch, however, I need to be able to split the batch into individual documents, which themselves are variable page length. I can't split apart the PDF so instead I'm using Snapshot to generate the TIFF version. This TIFF batch can then be split by QF or WF.

Tessa -- Four years after the initial request you guys still need use cases?

It would be great if you could elaborate why we still don't have this critical feature. Is it performance related or is there some other technical reason? It would be great to know this because we come across this need on a regular basis and it's somewhat frustrating to have to resort to clunky workarounds.

To follow up on this, since I have another situation right now, is that the main reason is to split or merge documents.

In this case, I'm setting up a mail merge in Word that is fairly complex and dynamic. My best option is to externally For Each and create a single page file for each case (normally 1, occasionally 2 or 3). I need these pages to be combined instead of being three separate files. I can get as far as creating PDFs of them, but then...getting them merged involves various clunky workarounds, like Ege mentioned.

Is Generating Pages in a workflow available as of yet?