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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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.