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Morris

07/03/2018, 9:53 PM

@Michael Luu https://medium.com/@morrisdev/append-multiple-pdf-documents-in-netsuite-suitescripts-6542396a2343

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Michael Luu

07/05/2018, 2:51 AM

Hi Morris, thanks for sharing this with me. I followed this guide, but I’m getting a lot of parsing errors when I’m trying to load a pdf file from the file cabinet. I’m not sure if you have a lot of experience with XML, but the xml string i’m sending is the following <?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pdf PUBLIC “-//big.faceless.org//report” “report-1.1.dtd”> <pdfset> <pdf> <body> <h3>Generated PDF</h3> <p> </p> Document body here </body> </pdf> <pdf src=“https://core/media/media.nl?id=16977&amp;c=4495526_SB1&amp;h=ee648509acf5071e3627&amp;_xt=.pdf“/> <pdf src=“https://core/media/media.nl?id=16673&amp;c=4495526_SB1&amp;h=a5db5aa990ae877c3413&amp;_xt=.pdf”/> <pdf src=“https://core/media/media.nl?id=16674&amp;c=4495526_SB1&amp;h=3c47bb652ce4edbda179&amp;_xt=.pdf”/> </pdfset>

Morris

07/05/2018, 1:23 PM

@Michael Luu xml can be a big pain! 1. use this header

<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE pdf PUBLIC \"-//big.faceless.org//report\" \"report-1.1.dtd\">

2. make sure to only use this type of quotes

not the ones you are using around the pdf urls

Morris

07/05/2018, 1:25 PM

Im not an xml pro but I did spend a lot of time on it, let me know if you need more help.

Michael Luu

07/05/2018, 2:37 PM

Thanks @Morris I think I got the header working correctly. My issue specifically is around specifying the pdf src. If I remove the 3 <pdf src=" https..." lines, then the Netsuite function xmlToPdf seems to work. but as soon as I put even one of those statements in, i get the following error message: "Error Parsing XML: //system.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=16977&c=4495526_SB1&h=ee648509acf5071e3627&_xt=.pdf"

Morris

07/05/2018, 2:40 PM

has to be parsed to

&amp;

if you want you can parse it using the

'N/xml'

module and use this function

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var cleanPdfURL = xml.escape({
xmlText: x
});
xml += '<pdf src="' + cleanPdfURL + '"></pdf>';

Michael Luu

07/05/2018, 3:13 PM

yep, i did exactly that. this is the xml string that I am sending to netsuite to try to parse/interpret <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE pdf PUBLIC "-//big.faceless.org//report" "report-1.1.dtd"> <pdfset> <pdf> <body> <h3>Generated PDF</h3> <p>Invoice Form</p> </body> </pdf> <pdf src="/core/media/media.nl?id=16977&c=4495526_SB1&h=ee648509acf5071e3627&_xt=.pdf"/> <pdf src="/core/media/media.nl?id=16673&c=4495526_SB1&h=a5db5aa990ae877c3413&_xt=.pdf"/> <pdf src="/core/media/media.nl?id=16674&c=4495526_SB1&h=3c47bb652ce4edbda179&_xt=.pdf"/> </pdfset>

Morris

07/05/2018, 4:19 PM

make sure the pdf is "available without login"

Morris

07/05/2018, 4:19 PM

and insert the full pdf path not the relative path

Michael Luu

07/08/2018, 10:24 PM

So after my trial, I don’t think this method actually works (at least in SuiteScript 2.0). I emailed support and they replied saying that merging PDFs with the <pdf src> tags aren’t currently supported and that an enhancement request has already been submitted. 😞

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