Hi all,
Fairly new to PP, so bear with me…
Running PlanetPress Connect 2019.
I have created a datamapper, template, and workflow that takes in an XML and generates some variable data letters for me and everything works great. However, I would like to be able to have multiple .xml files as input, all data aggregated together, and THEN run through the datamapper (for sorting/grouping) and so it outputs all as one PDF, instead of one PDF per xml file.
Can anyone advise on how I would go about this?
Thank you!
Short of using the Open XSLT plugin, I don’t see how you could achieve this.
You could run each XML file first through your Datamapper, have each content done but not outputted and then call on them using the Retrieve items plugin to do so. Thisd way you could sort and batch tehm together into1 PDF file.
Unfortunately, I do not have more explanation to give you as to do this. You might have some luck searching in this forum for someone asking for the same thing.
Thought I would update this in case anyone else runs into the same thing.
I ended up solving it by:
Having each XML processed separately and outputting individual PDFs for each group to a temp folder. After the Folder Capture task has completed all of the input XMLs, it then goes into a Merge PDF task, using sorting to give me one final PDF, sorted by Zip codes.
Cheers.