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Client is having a requirement, whenever document status was changed to approved, then document has to be converted into pdf and should upload to another document library.

I thought of doing with event receiver which is a sandbox solution(of course not suggested but no other option for me), because client doesn't have any azure licences to host provider hosted app. Word automation services are not available in SharePoint online. I am having one more though on it like, convert word document to html and html to pdf, but the issue here is again I have to upload that converted pdf to document library.

How I can accomplish this in SharePoint online?

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  • I would avoid the sandbox solution, as there's no guarantee that Microsoft will continue to allow them to be added to SharePoint Online. How are you converting it to html/pdf?
    – wjervis
    Commented Feb 16, 2016 at 16:12
  • There are some libraries available to convert from docx to html like blog.innovatejs.com/?p=184, github.com/evidenceprime/html-docx-js
    – Mihir
    Commented Feb 17, 2016 at 5:09
  • I don't see this being possible, at least not in an automated manner. You would at the least need to browse to a page for the library you linked to execute, and once that's done, you can use REST or JSOM to upload it to the library, but that cannot be automated.
    – wjervis
    Commented Feb 17, 2016 at 11:30

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This is a bit too... involved to handle inside of your own browser (although if someone has created a JavaScript docx to pdf converter, that would be awesome to behold). What you'd probably have to do is create a webservice of your own that does this conversion and then send the Word document there. That's like 90% or more of the way there to a cloud-hosted solution (as you'd still need to set up an Apache server or something to set up the service), but that would be the way you would need to handle it.

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  • If we go for cloud solution, then we can create provider hosted add-in with remote event receivers. But that option was fade out.
    – Mihir
    Commented Feb 17, 2016 at 5:15
  • npmjs.com/package/@nativedocuments/docx-wasm is a Javascript docx to pdf converter :-)
    – JasonPlutext
    Commented Mar 13, 2019 at 3:28
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This can be all done using JavaScript. You can use JSOM or ASMX. I'm unaware of an operation that'll get you the base64 for a document in REST, but hopefully it exists. Using ASMX, the GetItem operation is all you need to get the base64.

Example code from http://spservices.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Copy:

var binary =""; $().SPServices({ operation: "GetItem", Url: "http:/mysite/site1/testdoclib/report.pdf", completefunc: function(xData, Status){ $(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("Stream").each(function(){ binary = $(this).text(); }); $().SPServices({ operation: "CopyIntoItems", SourceUrl: "http:/mysite/site1/testdoclib/report.pdf", DestinationUrls: ["http:/mysite/site2/anotherdoclib/report.pdf"], Stream: binary, Fields: ["<FieldInformation DisplayName='TestField' Type='Text' Value='Cricket' />","<FieldInformation DisplayName='ChoiceTest' Type='Choice' Value='A' />"] }); } });

Using this library, you can convert documents into PDFs. I'd use the Image method, since it takes a base64. http://mrrio.github.io/jsPDF/

The larger the document, the longer this will take FYI.

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  • This is great idea. But have you ever tried this to convert?
    – Mihir
    Commented Mar 1, 2016 at 6:07
  • I've never been paid to do so. ;)
    – iOnline247
    Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 4:30

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