Confused about PDF Forms Plugin Setup

Classic Servoy
1

Hello,

I’m trying to get started with using PDF foms, bu after looking through the developer reference guide and the following thread:
http://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?t=4245

I’m still confused as to how to set up everything properly:

  1. It appears that I need a special DB server called “pdf_forms”. Is this correct? If so, then which database should be associated with this connection? The abovementioned thread mentions using the existing “user_data” server, but do I have to pick that one?
  2. In the server admin there is PDF Forms plugin setting. What gets entered here? Whatever server is configured in #1?
2

After browsing the pdf_forms example solution, I’m confused (again LOL) as to the purpose of the pdf_actions table. I guess I need an overview of what’s going on technically behind the scenes, and while the example solution is very much appreciated, it has sparse documentation IMHO, at least for someone with no prior experience with pdf forms.

3

Right now I only need to take data existing data from Servoy and populate a PDF form, which I can do with convertPDFFormToPDFDocument() fx, but I’d still really like to know some of the behind-the-scenes stuff I mentioned earlier.

4

We are working on more extensive documentation. If you have any questions right now you can post them here. Based on your last post I assume your earlier questions are answered?

5

Hi Jan,

That’s really good news about the documentation, and yeah I think I’m OK for now.