Communications (Exstream)

Communications (Exstream) leverages the data and content that already exists within the organization to transform typical customer communications into highly-personalized, engaging customer experiences on the preferred digital and print channels, screen sizes and devices of the customer.

Shared Resource Set – newly added resources not offered during update in other projects
Hello, I recently migrated several projects from StreamServe 5.6 to Exstream 16.6, which uses CAS-based versioning. In the old environment I had a single shared resource set containing overlays, fonts, images, lookup tables, etc., referenced by all projects. During the migration import I used the "reuse resources with the…
Exstream CE 25.3 - PDF/UA - not passing PAC test
Hi all, I was playing around with PDF/UA creation from earlier versions of Exstream (StreamServe/StoryTeller) quite a bit and always got these errors, when I tested the created PDF against PAC: "Figure" element on a single page with no bounding box! Has anyone dealt with that before and managed to solve it? Now with the…
Exstream version history
Hi, Can anyone help with the details of OTExstream version history ? We have a legacy version 16.6.31 and we are trying to find out the latest version supported for a non-cloud migration. If I understand correctly the latest version (23) supports only a SaaS model, is that correct? SaaS migration is a long-term target for…
Sort Data Sort index
Hello, I have received the following error in Communications Orchestrator CE 25.4 EX003708S (1) The sort data file contains an invalid header (Invalid Signature). System stopped. I am doing a migration from design manager to CE and I have problems in the sorting and bundling part since the SortData output is not generated…
Logs files on servers
Hello, We are using Exstream 21.3 right now. We have a lot of log files on our servers and we want to free some space on disks. 1)Is it safe for us to delete undeliverable files like those: They are on locations like those: ManagementGateway\16.6\root\applications\PM_RAdecision\QUALITY\undeliverable\outConnPRINT 2) It is…
Any other xPression Developers out there?
We used to have a very helpful and robust user group community. I am just curious who is still going strong with xPression and/or CompuSet, despite threats of forcing us to use Exstream?
AI in Output Management
Hi all, We got the task to investigate and prepare some presentation regarding AI in Output Management. Are there some examples of AI usage in Exstream? Are there any AI tools, or AI extensions that can be used in Exstream? In which versions of Exstream we can find some AI tools, can it be in server based or cloud based…
Switch from server based to cloud based OpenText Exstream
Hello all, I have a question regarding upgrade of Exstream server based to cloud based. Currently, we are using server based 21.3 (and we are planning to upgrade to 23.3), but we are also looking into options for cloud based one. So, my question is, what are the main differences between server and cloud based Exstream, but…
Running Streamserve 5.6.2 on WIndows Server 2025
Hi, I'm currently looking at migrating out Streamserve 5.6.2 installation from Windows Server 2016 to Server 2025. As part of the switch we've moved the server to a protected part of the network because of the risk of running out of date software. Everything appears to be working fine, but there is one warning/error that I…
Exstream StoryTeller an total number of pages
Hello! It seems that it is not possible to obtain the total number of pages within StoryTeller scripts. With Pageout it was possible to use page() and pages() function to handle scripts based of 'last page' and so on…. This functions are not available within StoryTeller. So it's possible to print the total amount of pages…
OpenText Exstream and generation of binary PDF files that have a unicode byte order mark prefix
I noticed the following in the binary PDF format reportedly produced by OpenText Exstream Version 16.6.30: A hex dump of the same file shows the first 16 characters of the file, where 25 50 44 46 are ascii for "%PDF", so it has an incorrect three-byte binary prefix of hex values ef bb bf: 0000000 ef bb bf 25 50 44 46 2d 31…
Variable Page Size and Scale in Communications Builder
I am attempting to vary the page size, etc., in Communications Builder/Storyteller. Setting the orientation (portrait/landscape) is simple, but what I need to do is essentially "shrink-to-fit" when the data would produce a larger document. For example, if have a document that is portrait and the font is "Courier New", 10.…
Exstream 16.6 control center not connect (stay login administrator windows without error)
Hi every body, i have a major issue with control center in a dev server : since a week, when we try to connect to control center, we stay on logon administrator windows with nor error message (wrong password or else). so we cannot deploy any project, The password was not changed, the issue is not on prod server and we…
When exporting a streamserve project often getting this error.
Below is an example of the error that displays for all the output process. I just copied one example. I have to shut down the streamserve project reopen, and then sometimes it will export without a problem. There are not errors in these output process. Not sure what the invalid Service Storage means. Error: Fatal F1062:…
Exstream and Office365 Exchange Online (Oauth2)
Hello, has anyone already connected Exstream (23.3/25.3) Mailconnector with Office365 Exchange Server via OAuth 2.0? The 'normal' connection with SMTP will be soon disabled by Microsoft. This should be a new feature but we can't see that this is working.. Any experience? Thanks and best regards
The OutputFile function
Hi all. I have a PDF Document stored in disk and I want to sent that specify document as HTTP Response I saw in the documentation that I can use OutputFile function to send document directly to an Output connector, but I can't make it work, when a try from client the HTTP Response doesn't have any PDF file is just empty.…
Exstream Designer, XML, sections, tables - and page breaks
I'm currently running circles with Exstream Designer, printing a list of small tables covering several pages. Unfortunately my input data is "given" and fixed, so I can't just request better structure. The general form of the relevant part looks as this: <xml> <table> <row> <text>Blah</text> <type>1</type>…
Exstream Designer - Variables missed when data comes in last
I am using OT Communications 25.1 and have some incoming data in json…. (simplified) { "generalData": { "displayName": "Test" }, "description": { "about": "Test" }, "documentMeta": { "documentLanguage": "sv", "documentAnonymous": false, "compactMode": false, "numberOfCategories": 1 } } The variables documentLanguage and…
URI .... modification detected
I have the need to read data from a supplied QR code that is a Base64 encoded *.PNG and part of the input data. Unfortunately Exstream/StreamServe does not support this out of the box and I have to call an external tool for this. I therefore create a temporary file that is placed in the %temp% folder with a unique name.…
Determine long running communications/documents
I recently had the need to identify long running communicatons/documents, i.e. the ones that take more than a few seconds between dropping the source data and the timestamp when the entire job was set to "finished". The goal is to identify bottlenecks and concurrency problems in a busy site. In Supervisor I can list the…