I want to simply export a tiff image from my repository to a windows directory. How can I do this via sdk script in C#?
*NOTE - I want the tiff, not a pdf.
Thanks!
Benjamin
If you're doing this in Workflow, then you'll need a SDK script activity. In it, you need to add references to Laserfiche.DocumentServices (the version should match the version of Laserfiche.RepositoryAccess, which matches the version of your Workflow installation) and System.IO. In the Script's Default Entry section in the activity's properties, set the entry you want exported. If using Find Entry, then pick the entry you found:
The script looks like this:
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo; DocumentExporter docExporter = new DocumentExporter(); string exportPath = @"c:\temp\test.tif"; int pageNumber = 1; docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Tiff; using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportPath)) docExporter.ExportPage(doc, pageNumber, fs);
The Workflow server service user needs write access to the folder where you'll be saving these files.
If you're not running this code in Workflow, then you need to make your own connection to Laserfiche and "%(SearchRepository_FirstResult_ID)" is just a string.
Use the DocumentExporter class in Laserfiche.DocumentServices. Here is a simple example:
DocumentInfo doc = Document.GetDocumentInfo(docId, session);
DocumentExporter docExporter = new DocumentExporter();
string exportPath = @"c:\test.tif";
docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Tiff;
using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportPath))
docExporter.ExportPage(doc, pageNumber, fs);
You can also export the raw image directly by using doing doc.GetPageInfo(pageNum).ReadPagePart(PagePart.Image), but the DocumentExporter method is the recommended way.
I cannot find any way to successfully reference DocumentInfo. How can I select the document for export without that option? Or am I missing an include/using statement?
.ExportPage seems to be deprecated unless it is related to the above issue.
Thanks!
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
The problem is that I can't get
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
to resolve. What using statement or reference is/are necessary for documentinfo?
Are you using a Script or SDK script activity?
I was simply including sdk references in a visual studio c# project. Can a tiff be exported directly from a workflow script? That would solve my problem.
Wait, you tagged this thread as Workflow. You're not using Workflow to run the script?
The code Robert pasted above assumes you have established a session to the repository ("session") and have a the ID of the document you want to retrieve ("docId"). Do you have those in your code?
If you choose to run this script from Workflow, the SDK Script activity takes care of establishing the connection and retrieving the entry info for you.
I'm quite amenable to swapping this over to a workflow script if that eliminates some steps. How do I get the docId and session for his first statement?
Maybe you can give more details on what this code is trying to accomplish? When is it supposed to run, how will it know which documents to export?
// Using the overloaded RepositoryRegistration constructor
RepositoryRegistration myRepoReg = new RepositoryRegistration("MyServerName", "MyRepositoryName");
Session session = new Session();
session.LogIn("MyUserName", "MyPassword", myRepoReg);
The idea is as follows:
A form has been filled out by a user and saved down to the repository as a tiff image file. All I want to do is export that file to a windows directory, such as C:
There will only ever be one entry at the specified path, so I'm using a Find Entry command and giving it the full path.
What would be the best way to go about this?
DocumentExporter exp = new DocumentExporter();
DocumentInfo doc = Document.GetDocumentInfo("%(SearchRepository_FirstResult_ID)", RASession);
exp.ExportPages(doc,doc.AllPages,@"C:\test.tiff");
So, this is the code I'm working with at the moment. It gives me Entry not found. [9001][9001], despite the obvious presence of the file in question. When running a workflowapi.trackinformation for the path of the first result, I get an accurate response. What am I doing wrong?
You are passing in the untranslated token value for the entry ID. You need to get the actual integer ID from the token value.
Attempting to parse the ID via Int32.parse(token) yields: "Input string was not in a correct format."
If someone could please respond with a full answer in c#, instead of instructions, that would be great. I honestly don't much care how this export is accomplished. Only that it is accomplished and that I can reverse engineer the answer for understanding. I'm kind of stuck here.
Thanks!
Try this to resolve the token value:
int docId = Int32.Parse(this.GetTokenValue("SearchRepository_FirstResult_ID"));
Correction: I think you don't pass in the token surrounded by %().
If you're doing this in Workflow, then you'll need a SDK script activity. In it, you need to add references to Laserfiche.DocumentServices (the version should match the version of Laserfiche.RepositoryAccess, which matches the version of your Workflow installation) and System.IO. In the Script's Default Entry section in the activity's properties, set the entry you want exported. If using Find Entry, then pick the entry you found:
The script looks like this:
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo; DocumentExporter docExporter = new DocumentExporter(); string exportPath = @"c:\temp\test.tif"; int pageNumber = 1; docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Tiff; using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportPath)) docExporter.ExportPage(doc, pageNumber, fs);
The Workflow server service user needs write access to the folder where you'll be saving these files.
If you're not running this code in Workflow, then you need to make your own connection to Laserfiche and "%(SearchRepository_FirstResult_ID)" is just a string.
Hi, i'm trying your solution to export in PDF but it looks like this extension is not valide. How can I do ?
Are you trying to export the images as PDF or the PDF component of the document?
PDF component
Then this not the script you're looking for. You'll need to use DocumentExporter.ExportElecDoc instead.
Thank you, that's working.
Regards
Hello all,
I'm following your tutorial on exporting a document from the Repository. It works if I export a tiff, but not with an XML. It comes empty.
I tried setting docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Text; and this downloads the XML with the content in it, but as text, not XML. There are no tags in it.
Here is what I've tried so far. What should I adjust to be able to export XMLs from the repository?
string thisFile = GetTokenValue("ForEachEntryForeachxmlfilefound_CurrentEntry_Name").ToString();
/* */
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
DocumentExporter docExporter = new DocumentExporter();
string exportPath = @"\\server\share\Temp\success\" + thisFile + ".xml";
int pageNumber = 1;
docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Text;
using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportPath))
docExporter.ExportPage(doc, pageNumber, fs);
The xml content is in the electronic file portion of the LF document (not in the LF pages portion), so you would export it like this:
string exportPath = @"\\server\share\Temp\success\" + thisFile + ".xml"; docExporter.ExportElecDoc(documentInfo, exportLocation);
Good morning Robert, hey thank you! That did the trick.
Thanks again,
Raul Gonzalez
Hey, now I'm trying to download a PDF using the same strategy, but what happens is that it creates a PDF with the XML content inside, instead of the PDF content.
I have both in the same code, I didn't know how to separate them.
string thisFile = GetTokenValue("ForEachEntryForeachxmlfilefound_CurrentEntry_Name").ToString();
string thisPDF = GetTokenValue("SearchRepositoryformatchingpdf_FirstResult_Name").ToString();
/*Donwload the XML */
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
DocumentExporter docExporter = new DocumentExporter();
string exportPath = @"\\server\share\Temp\success\" + thisFile + ".xml";
int pageNumber = 1;
docExporter.ExportElecDoc(doc, exportPath);
//docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Text;
using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportPath))
docExporter.ExportPage(doc, pageNumber, fs);
/*Donwload the PDF */
DocumentInfo docPDF = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
DocumentExporter docExporterPDF = new DocumentExporter();
string exportPathPDF = @"\\server\share\Temp\success\" + thisPDF + ".pdf";
int pageNumberPDF = 1;
docExporterPDF.ExportElecDoc(docPDF, exportPathPDF);
//docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Text;
using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportPathPDF))
docExporterPDF.ExportPage(docPDF, pageNumberPDF, fs)
Use the DocumentExporter.ExportPdf method to export the image pages as a pdf.
Robert, when I try using it like this I get an error that says "No overload for method 'ExprotPdf' takes two arguments"
I'm guessing I'm using it incorrectly. Can you shed some light on how to properly use it?
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
DocumentExporter docExporter = new DocumentExporter();
string exportPath = @"\\server\share\Temp\success\" + thisPDF + ".pdf";
int pageNumber = 1;
docExporter.ExportPdf(doc, exportPath);
//docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Text;
using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportPath))
docExporter.ExportPage(doc, pageNumber, fs);
I updated it to this, based on another tutorial of your that I found out there. Hopefully this will work.
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
DocumentExporter docExporter = new DocumentExporter();
string exportPath = @"\\server\share\Temp\success\" + thisPDF + ".pdf";
int pageNumber = 1;
docExporter.ExportElecDoc(doc, exportPath);
//docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Text;
using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportPath))
//docExporter.ExportPage(doc, pageNumber, fs);
docExporter.ExportPdf(doc, doc.AllPages, PdfExportOptions.None, fs);
The DocumentExporter.ExportPdf method requires 4 inputs:
1.) DocumentInfo object (Your "doc")
2.) PageSet object (Your "doc.AllPages")
3.) PDFExportOptions (Your "PdfExportOptions.None"
4.) Path or Stream (Your "fs")
Your code is placing the PDF into a FileStream . The other option without a FileStream would be to export by providing the path.
To export to a path, remove your Using block and replace it with:
docExporter.ExportPdf(doc, doc.AllPages, PdfExportOptions.None, exportPath);
Bert, that worked; thanks.
I'm wanting to do something similar to this.
(Export a laserfiche file's metadata as an xml file so another program can use it)
I've been following the steps that other users have done here but I keep getting an error in the workflow when I run the SDK which says:
"Entry point was not found".
I'll attach the code I'm currently using, any pointers would be greatly appreciated as I'm a bit new to the SDK and C#
string thisFile = GetTokenValue("FindEntries_EntriesFoundCount").ToString();
/* */
DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
DocumentExporter docExporter = new DocumentExporter();
//string exportPath = @"\\server\LF Dump\Temp\success\" + thisFile + ".xml";
int pageNumber = 1;
docExporter.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Text;
string exportLocation = @"\\c\LF Dump\Temp\success\" + thisFile + ".xml";
//using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(exportLocation))
docExporter.ExportElecDoc(doc, exportLocation);
Hi Team,
I have a use case where I want to download all the version of the document. So let's say if a document has 4 version associated with it, represent 4 different documents but attached to single entry ID in laserfiche, how can i download the document using JRA SDK?
Does anyone have any idea on this?
The download API provided by SDK from document class is based on entry ID which will download the latest version in the tree. But no API method to download all the version or any specific version in the tree.
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Thank you