PDF Region Condition in Workflow

OL Connect Professional Workflow
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Hello All

Due to a bug in Connect 2023.2 I have been advised to replace a text condition in my workflow with a Script Condition.

The text condition is looking for a string in a region and is true if found. This works in workflow but due to the “bug” it causes issues later on. I am having some issues with the VBS or JavaScript code to replicate what the workflow condition does.

Can anyone help with some sample code I can repurpose.

The bug is fixed in 2024.1 but I can’t wait that long.

Many Thanks

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Can you post a screenshot of the Text Condition task as you would have configured it if it worked as expected? That will allow us to understand what kind of code you need.

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Hi Phil

I have created a dummy workflow to illustrate.

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Something like this should work:

var myPDF = Watch.GetPDFEditObject();
myPDF.Open(Watch.GetJobFileName(), false);

var extract = myPDF.pages(0).ExtractText2( 0.3125, 0, 2.8438, 0.4167 );
Script.ReturnValue = /#NOACREF#/ig.test(extract);

Drag a Run Script task onto your process and insert it as a condition:
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Then copy and paste the code above in the task

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Many thanks for the swift response Phil.

Must admit I have not seen this type of code “ig.test” before, is it a Connect feature or just something I have missed?

Will give it a go when I can get on the server.

Thanks

John

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No, it’s a Regular Expression. I admit my code is more concise than readable. To make it more obvious, I could have used:

var myPDF = Watch.GetPDFEditObject();
myPDF.Open(Watch.GetJobFileName(), false);
var myRegEx = new RegExp('#NOACREF#', 'ig');

var extract = myPDF.pages(0).ExtractText2( 0.3125, 0, 2.8438, 0.4167 );
Script.ReturnValue = myRegEx.test(extract);
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