Hi,
I am deciding whether to use Outsystems, and curious as to whether there is a feature that would allow me to create an app, with a pre-uploaded document. The user then will fill out a bunch of questions that correlate to missing information in my document, and the Outsystems app will then fill in the missing information with the user answers (document automation). I would then want the user to be able to download the document in word and pdf form.
Thank you!
Hi Phoebe,
In ODC platform, there's already AI (Mentor) that can generate the outsytems code. But that would need to be formated as a requirement document. Then AI would build all the code.Check this link here: https://www.outsystems.com/low-code-platform/mentor-ai-app-generation/.Try it out here: https://www.outsystems.com/generate-apps-gen-ai/.
If you are only working on O11, then you would need to build the form manually and have an option to generate the questions and answers as a document (word or pdf). That wouldn't be difficult to do.
Hope this helps.
José,
Your answer doesn't make any sense. The OP is asking for a document merge feature and you talk about generating code??
@Phoebe Hulbert : As I understand, users fill in answers to some questions and should be able to download a DOCX or PDF of a template with their answers after submitting the form.
It is very much possible to build this requirement in OutSystems. You can start with storing your document template in resource folder. Create forms to collect user input and, if needed, store the responses in entities for future reference. To generate the final document, implement logic to merge the collected data into the stored template. This can be done using available Forge components or via client-side JavaScript libraries, depending on your performance and platform requirements.
Thank you! This is very helpful
What you want, if I understand correctly, is a document merge feature. Out of the box OutSystems doesn't have this, unfortunately. I'm not sure whether there are Forge assets that help you with this - at our company, we use Aspose Words for this, with a custom extension to interface it.
Hi Kilian, thank you for such a clear answer. I will have a look into Forge and Aspose.
You're welcome. I hope you can find something that suits you.