Generate other file types that Word. E.g. XML, Excel/csv, PDF

HeikkiS

• Created November 29, 2017 07:33

Generate file only works with Word. That's handy with order confirmations etc (PDF would be even better), but creating XML files is much better when working with software integrations. E.g. when user orders an account, the XML file could be passed to helpdesk and they could execute a script that reads the XML and create the account. Another example is to send invoice to finance system as an XML file.

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  MarkF

  • March 09, 2018 13:27

  Converting a Word document into a PDF would help me a lot

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  John471

  • October 24, 2018 10:46

  Converting a Word document into a PDF would help me a lot too!

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  Matthias_Walter

  • October 25, 2018 17:27

  John Roberts, Mark Ferkaluk

  Generating a PDF is already possible using 2 simple skybow actions. please find a how to here:

  How to use the Microsoft Word Conversion Service to generate a PDF 

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  HeikkiS

  • March 12, 2019 13:48

  Hi

   

  Any updates on this Matthias Walter? I have a business case where I need to be able to create csv -files for input to another process.

   

  Br, Heikki

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  Matthias_Walter

  • March 13, 2019 10:06

  Hi Heikki Salminen,

  unfortunately not yet. There are other ideas having more votes.

  For .csv files you could use the standard Export to Excel function on every list/library and save it as csv in Excel

  

   

  BR Matthias

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  HeikkiS

  • March 13, 2019 13:05

  Hi Matthias Walter

   

  Unfortunately using "Export to Excel"  is not an option. I need to generate a csv-file per order when saving the form.

   

  Br, Heikki

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  Christof

  • March 18, 2019 12:11

  Hi Heikki Salminen

  May the link in this answer is it worth to have a look at for your requirement: Export form sublist to Excel 

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  AmirTei

  • March 21, 2019 22:37

  I am interested in generating XML files as a form schema for uploading into an InfoPath form library.

  Currently, I have to generate the Word document and then manually "copy the contents as plain text into Note Pad to be saved with ".xml" file extension. I already voted for this feature.

   

  UPDATE: Apr 20, 2019

  A simple solution to generate text based files like "xml" files is to generate a Word document with the XML contents as normal Document Generate process. Then open the generated file in Microsoft Word program and 'Save As Text' to create a new file with the ".txt" extension. Next you may change the file extension of ".txt" to ".xml" for the final touch.

   

  Remember, if you 'Save As XML' then the file will include lots of unwanted contents that does not serve the purpose to have a simple XML file.

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