Split pdf further process and reports

OL Connect Enterprise Workflow
1

Hi,

In my job/output presets. I split the pdfs based on pages.

This is loaded in the workflow, now is there a way to get details of each pdf splits?

For eg: The output produced 2 sets of pdf:

  • 1-6_pages.pdf
  • 6-plus_pages.pdf

Now I would like get number total pages of each record within each pdf stream.

In the end It would create 2 report files such as follows:

1-6_pages.rpt

ID, pages
cus1, 2
cus2, 5 

6-plus_pages.rpt

ID, pages
cus3, 7
cus4, 10

Is this possible at all? Or at least a workaround without needing to split the data prior to processing.

Thanks
E

2

This has been resolved.

Using the rest API to get content sets , and getting pages information from it.

3

I’m glad to hear that.

Can you let us know please how you were able to achieve this? Were you for example able to achieve this by using the following URL?

<origin>/rest/serverengine/entity/contentsets/<contentSetId>/pages?detail=true

Source: ‘Get Page Details for Content Set - PReS Connect 2022.1 REST API Cookbook (link)’

4

Yes that is correct Marten.

Basically, gets the contentSets that got created by the Create print content task. Loops through them and query the API after the results comes back , you do what you need to do in the handler function.

var  metaFile = new ActiveXObject("MetadataLib.MetaFile");
metaFile.LoadFromFile (Watch.GetMetadataFilename());
var metaJob = metaFile.Job();

// TODO handle multiple content sets
for (var idx1=0; idx1 < metaJob.Count; idx1++) {
   metaGroup = metaJob.Group(idx1);
   Watch.log(idx1.toString(),3);
   var contentsetid = metaGroup.FieldByName("_vger_contentset_id");

   // Get Data Records for Data Set
   var xhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
   var url = Watch.GetVariable("global.rest_base_url") + "/entity/contentsets/" + contentsetid + "/pages?detail=true";
   Watch.log(url,3);
   xhttp.open('GET',url,false);
   xhttp.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
   xhttp.setRequestHeader("Authorization", Watch.GetVariable("global.rest_auth_string"));
   xhttp.onreadystatechange = handlerGetDataRecord;
   xhttp.send();

   // Save the metadata back to file
   metaFile.SaveToFile (Watch.GetMetadataFilename());

}

function handlerGetDataRecord(){
      ... json.responseText
      .., do something here loop each contentitem
}
5

Hi @edanting, thank you for sharing your solution. I am glad to hear that you were able to solve your question.

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