Convert Content

Updated on 13 Dec 2023
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General

This type of action can be used to convert content (such as a report document or an external file) to another file type. The converted file will be available as a new report document within the Task.

Properties

This type of action has the following properties:

Name	Description
Content Type	The type of content you want to convert. When selecting Report Document you can select a previously created report document; when selecting External File you can specify an Expression that returns a String that contains the path to the external file to convert.
New Document Name	The name of the report document that contains the converted file.
The name of the report document that contains the converted file.	An Expression that returns a String that contains the title of the new report document. The document title should be a short description of the report document (e.g. Monthly Report 2020/01 for David Laychak); the document title will for instance be used in the Library of the Hub. If the source content is a report document you can leave this expression empty in which case the new report document will get the same title as the source report document.
Target File Type	The file type to convert to.

Supported Conversions

The action supports the following conversions:

File Type	Can Be Tonverted To
BMP Image	JPEG, PNG
JBMP Imagee	BMP, PNG
HTML Document	PDF
Microsoft Excel Workbook	Microsoft Excel Workbook with Macros, PDF
Microsoft Excel Workbook with Macros	Microsoft Excel Workbook (macros contained in the source file will be removed), PDF
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation	PDF
Microsoft Word Document	PDF, HTML Document
PNG Image	BMP, JPEG

If you try to perform an unsupported conversion, the execution of the action will fail with an error message.

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