Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:54:47 GMT
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Power Platform Governance and Administration
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Until recently, it has been possible to programmatically generate a PDF from a Word Template by either making a request like this OrganizationRequest("ExportPdfDocument"), or calling the exportPdf action. This latter method is publicly documented:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/sales-enterprise/developer/exportpdf-api
Calls to this are now receiving the response: 'The private ExportPdfDocument request cannot be called from this plug-in because it has a different solution publisher.' and Microsoft support say that these methods, although publicly available, are only intended for private use by Microsoft.
These methods were very useful and their withdrawal leave us with no supported way to programmatically generate PDF's from Word templates. Power Automate is an option, but not if customers want real-time generation of PDF's. Other customers require merging of several PDF's - again not possible using Power Automate.
The only other alternative seems to be buying some 3rd party tool to do the conversion.
Please re-instate this functionality and make it 'public' and support it.