Cristina Dragomir
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[Ultimate PDF] Detach applications using Ultimate PDF
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Hi, 

i was wondering if you could please help us with an issue?

We are trying to detach our applications from Outsystems and one of our modules is using your Ultimate PDF component to export a report in PDF format. 

We managed to detach our application without any errors but we are unable to export to PDF and are receiving "An error occurred when trying to print to pdf" error.

Are we perhaps missing a setting after detaching or could you provide any guidance on why this error would appear?

Many thanks,

Cristina

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Hi Cristina,

Do manage Dependencies and untick Ultimate Pdf -> apply.

Example:

remove errors and publish your application.

Hope it's work.

Regards,

Samiksha.


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Cristina Dragomir
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hi Samiksha,

Thank you for your reply but we are unable to untick the dependency as we need the component to generate the PDF. We would lose that functionality entirely

Regards,

Cristina

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Leonardo Fernandes
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Hi Cristina. There's no setting to be applied after the detach.

What might be happening is that the component attempts to download a Chromium browser and store it on the C:\Windows\Temp folder. If the folder is not writeable for the application pool user, then this operation will fail.

If you could provide more details about the error, I might be able to help you.

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Cristina Dragomir
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Hi Leonardo,
thank you for your reply.

Since my message the error changed a bit into "An exception occurred in the client script. Error: Cannot read property 'click' of null "

Here is what's happening:

We have a button that says Export to PDF. 

On click, this executes some validations and then triggers a click on a hidden button that performs the "PrintToPDF_Advanced" action. (i tried to make the button visible to make sure that doesn't cause a problem)
PrintToPDF_Advanced will receive an URL as input, which we build based on people's selections on the screen.

I tried the URL in the browser and it seems to display some data.

Not really sure if i'm missing something, or maybe some permissions.

You are right, on the server the c:\windows\temp folder seems to be read only. I will have to look into what users have what permissions. 

Many thanks,
Cristina

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Leonardo Fernandes
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I believe IIS doesn't usually have write privileges to the c:\windows\temp folder, so that makes sense. Here is the documentation to grant permissions to the application pool identity: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/manage/configuring-security/application-pool-identities


The latest release has a configuration which allows you to use a different folder other than c:\windows\temp, in case you prefer to isolate the access to a folder that is specific to Ultimate PDF. Even if you have detached already, it should be simple to merge the extension's source code into your detached version.

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Waqar Ahmad
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Hi Leonardo,

Thank you for your reply.

We have managed to narrow down the error further by commenting out a large section of the .Net code in our application where the UltimatePDF is running.

We are running this code 

Actions.ActionPrintToPDF_Advanced(heContext,"https://www.google.co.uk", ENPaperSizeEntity.GetRecordByKey(ObjectKey.Parse("CodeRedacted")).ssSize, ENMarginSizeEntity.GetRecordByKey(ObjectKey.Parse("CodeRedacted")).ssSize, out localVars.resPrintToPDF_Advanced_outParamPDF);

After this is ran we are receiving the following feedback message:

"An error occurred when trying to print to pdf https://www.google.co.uk"

In C:\windows\Temp - IUSR, IIS_IUSRS, IIS AppPool and our own Application Pool which we use for our applications all have full control to that folder. I have also checked in C:\windows\System32\inetsrv and that folder has full control as well for IUSR, IIS_IUSRS, IIS AppPool and our own Application Pool.

In C:\Windows\Temp, .local-chromium is present, before the detach the UltimatePDF was working perfectly fine. 

We are unable to check Service Center as we have detached our applications, but would appreciate any guidance you can provide, in case we are missing a location which is missing permissions.

Kind Regards,

Waqar Ahmad


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Leonardo Fernandes
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Waqar, you can try disabling the exception handling in the component itself. Remove the catch that you can find on the action PrintToPDF_Advanced.

This will unlock the actual underlying exception that is happening, and we can try to investigate it.

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Waqar Ahmad
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Hi Leonardo,

I have managed to remove the catch and error is now "Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)"

Kind Regards,

Waqar 

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Leonardo Fernandes
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Ok, make sure the correct version of the Newtonsoft.Json assembly (12.0.0.0 or higher) is included in the bin folder.

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