PDF generator from a coda page with floating values in a page

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I have a unique use case and would like to take your input on it. I am building a coda doc to manage training programs for many students, i want to generate a certificate for each student, I did a page with floating formulas and variables and we can select the name of the students and it will auto populate the name, date, …etc. but my issue is that i have to print out these certificates one by one. I wanted to check if you can suggest something to make my life easier :slight_smile:

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Hello @Abdullah_Jaghbeer,
There is no perfect solution for that, but using one of the packs ‘documint’ or ‘export to word’ allows you to fill a template and produce your documents (pdf or word). Even though you will create separate docs for each page, it is a lot easier to (bulk) print those than doing the same from within coda.
Documint is a free pack, but you only get to make 10 free .pdf docs per month. Export to word is a paid pack, but allows you to print as many documents as you want.
Once you figure out how to set it up, it works good - I find Export to word a little bit easier to use.
Greetings, Joost

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This is very helpful @joost_mineur thank you. I will try this and get back to you with feedback

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Internally, we do the same, but it’s a report for many devices. It’s like a certificate performance and the only way we could build the process to be fully automated is to create a custom Pack that:

  1. Pushes the document values to a Google Cloud Platform web service;
  2. The service embeds the values in a document template;
  3. Converts it to a PDF;
  4. Publishes it to a Drive folder, and then sends the URL back into a Coda table field where it can be rendered as the full PDF and emailed to other stakeholders.
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You can fully automate this with the existing Documint pack as well!

No need for custom packs.

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Indeed, and unless the process requires hitting multiple endpoints during the automation workflow. Our process must also update a security system, logging the existence of the document, access controls, application dependencies, etc. And it also hits Firebase – we need a master database of the document data so that clients can filter for specific documents and aggregations of documents based on discrete values.

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