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- Add the built-in "Send" or "Submit" button
- Configure the URL of the service
- Done!
Sometimes, you want to do more, and you can configure the details through what Orbeon Forms calls simple processes. These define a series of steps to perform in response to the user activating a button, including error recovery. You can, for example, specify that a "Submit" button must:
- Check that the data is valid.
- Save it to the local database.
- Email it to the user's email address.
- Send it to a workflow service via HTTP.
Until recently, though, it wasn't easily possible to send the form exported as a binary PDF to an external service. Orbeon Forms has a couple of options for PDF production, and there was a way to send a callback URL for the PDF to a service, but that was difficult to setup.
Orbeon Forms 2016.2 fixes this and includes a way to directly send the PDF to a service. So now you can, for example, write a "Submit" process which sends the XML data and the PDF to one or multiple HTTP services. You do this by passing the new pdf token to the built-in send action. (Similarly, you can now send a binary TIFF document with the new tiff token.)
We hope you will like this simple but hopefully useful new feature!
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