Generate PDF from HTML content in SP online [closed]

Question

There is a requirement to generate a PDF and upload into a document library from dynamic HTML content created using Nintex workflow in SP online.

How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

To the best of my knowledge neither Nintex, nor SharePoint Online provide functionality to do this natively, so you have to use 3rd party functionality or write a helluva lot of code.

I wrote a couple of blog posts on this subject recently as Converting HTML in SP Online is a hot topic because it makes content generation very easy.

Have a look at the following:

• Converting SharePoint Online Pages / Items to PDF (this also works for custom HTML)
• Integrating this with Nintex Workflow for Office 365 (you will need to make minor changes to invoke a slightly different REST endpoint.

There is a couple of things to take into account. Nintex for Office 365 currently does not support direct integration with third party software like their on-premise products do. Therefore you have to use the workaround in the 2nd blog post linked to above to invoke a REST API. It is all a bit messy, another option may be to create a SharePoint Designer workflow (which does support 3rd party components) and invoke that workflow from Nintex Workflow.

The other thing to take into account is that I wrote those blog posts and worked on the product mentioned, so consider me biased (but very knowledgeable on the topic).