Can I attach a PDF export of a record to that same record with PDFGenerationAPI?

[Brad Cupp]

Hello,

I am trying to use PDFGenerationAPI to create a PDF of a record(similar to export PDF functionality), and attach it to the same record. Based on the documentation the API only seems to have the option to create a PDF with HTML, not a url. Can this API do what I am looking for? If it can't, is there another way to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance!

[MrMuhammad · Accepted solution]

Hey Brad,

You can use code provided on the below link to fullfil your needs.

https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=d03ee971db8f4410feb1a851ca96...

Regards,

Muhammad

[MrMuhammad]

You can also try this in the UI action which I'm using already. Change Username and Password in the below script before execution.

UI ACTION SCRIPT:

createPDF();

function createPDF() {
	
    var rm = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2();
    rm.setHttpMethod('GET');
	
    var url = gs.getProperty("glide.servlet.uri") + current.getTableName() + '.do?PDF&sys_id=' + current.sys_id;
    
	gs.addInfoMessage(url);
    
	rm.setEndpoint(url);
    // Create new properties and save user id and password of an admin account
    rm.setBasicAuth('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD'); // Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with actual username and password.
    rm.saveResponseBodyAsAttachment(current.getTableName(), current.sys_id, current.number + ".pdf");
    var response = rm.execute();
    action.setRedirectURL(current.getTableName() + ".do?sys_id=" + current.sys_id);

}