Hello,
Using the pdf.co api to merge pdf documents that are in bubble. I’m getting back a temporary url as shown below. Is there a way to save the linked file to bubble? I’ve tried everything I could think of. It needs to be a part of the same workflow that merges the files.
Thanks for nay help offered,
George
In API Connector, did you set the file field to “file” type?
If yes, you can use :saved to S3 and the file will be saved to Bubble.
Well I’m using a plugin so that option isn’t available. Great idea. Let me try just using the api. Thanks for your help! I’ll report back my results.
Didn’t know there was a plugin for pdf.co But if this is the case, the plugin author probably did a bad job on that setting and you can reach to him to update that.
However, PDF.co is pretty easy to create in API Connector
(Just checked, and it’s PDF.co that did their own plugin and they probably don’t know how Bubble work 
)
Hi @Jici
Yes the API was easy to set up but I get the same result.
And the following workflow
results in the same temporary url.
Any other ideas?
Remove 's url at the end of expression and select :saved to s3 in the package file field. Be sure thisfield is also of type file
not sure I know how to do that.
Exactly like I said. Change package file field in your action to result of step1 merge pdf:saved to s3
LOL. OK, so I’d tried that and it gave me the same result. However when I did I didn’t want to change the file name so I left that blank. When I tried it again after you suggested it I entered a test file name and that WORKED!!!
It’s simple once you learn how. Thanks for your help!!
Hello @Jici
I just thought it was working. The url I end up is something like:
https://e6da77d6154ef7582c570be40761e875.cdn.bubble.io/f1691064815390x605980215091648500/61-1-EA-NPN2-A
So if I start out with:
And merge as we described above I get the url:
https://e6da77d6154ef7582c570be40761e875.cdn.bubble.io/f1691064815390x605980215091648500/61-1-EA-NPN2-A
You’ll notice that it doesn’t have the .pdf extension.
That’s fine if I download each link manually.
But if I zip the file(s) they come out like this:
I’ve tried every one of zipping plugins. All provide the same results.
Now the computer doesn’t know what type of file it is.
Any idea what’s going on?
When you set the filename in :saved to s3, did you include the .pdf?
In JS Zip plugin, you can have a different field for the URL and one for the File name (from what I remember in your screenshot)
@Thimo
Hello again @Jici ,
I did not.
I just changed it to
Apparently it didn’t like that either because this is what I got:
