automatically creating and exporting rendition

Hi all,

We are developing a solution in which documents go through a lifecycle. In the final lifecycle state the original Word doc should be transformed to PDF and exported. We have DTS installed and can programmatically ask for a rendition by adding a request to the queue.

Yet, afterwards we need to export this file but have no clue as to how to detect when the rendition was actually accomplished (as this is done asynchronously).

Is there a way to trigger a certain event upon completion of a rendition? Or even better, is there a way to do a synchronous transformation to pdf using dfc?

Thanks!

tom

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Francois Dauberlieu

What about the Site or File Caching services (can't remember the name, Friday, end of the day for me... ), it will take care of the export of the PDF for you without having to develop 1 line of code. Sometimes, out of the box products are much cheaper that coding....

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Francois Dauberlieu

DCTM_Guru

Depending on what version of DTS you have, you might be able to create a custom profile that will call extra code after pdf generation.

tomlaureys

Hi guys,

Thx for the replies!

Checked the profiles first, but in the end Site Caching Services just does what we need here. We publish once a day now (at night), so synchronous transformation becomes less of an issue.

Cheers,

Tom