Hi everyone,

I'm building an audit report generation feature in OutSystems 11 using an AI agent (hosted in ODC) that returns a formatted HTML string. The flow works like this:

1. User clicks "Generate Report" on the audit screen
2. O11 calls an ODC REST API
3. The ODC agent (OpenAI) generates a structured HTML audit report
4. The HTML is returned to O11

My current approach uses HTMLString2PDF (HTML2PDF Forge component) as a Client Action to convert the HTML and download the PDF directly in the browser. This works fine for downloading, but since it runs client-side it doesn't return Binary Data, so I can't store the PDF in the database.

The problem: Every time the user clicks the button, a new call is made to the AI agent, which may return a slightly different report. I need to generate the PDF once, store it in the database, and always serve the same file on subsequent downloads.

What I need: A server-side solution that:

• Takes an HTML string as input
• Returns Binary Data (PDF)
• Works reliably on OutSystems 11 (cloud or on-premises)

We have already tested some server-side components from Forge but ran into issues with both of them:

• HTML2PDF_Converter — timed out, likely due to wkhtmltopdf binaries not being installed or blocked by firewall
• PDF (GeneratePDF action) — also failed with a hostname parsing error on the server

Has anyone solved this pattern? What's the recommended approach for server-side HTML-to-PDF generation in O11 that returns Binary Data?

Thanks in advance!