BPM Doc Merge

The merged document is saved as a record of module Document Merge, whose id is returned by POST /DocumentMerge/merge

Dear Andre,

Thank you for your reply.

I am not sure how Sugar intended the Doc Merge action in BPM is supposed to work.  I would like to handle the resultant merged document directly in the process and my aim is to email it out, but that does not seem possible.

I tried to do a GET on module DocumentMerge, by changing the URL to <site address>/#DocumentMerge but that does not exist.  

Creating a merged document in the BPM and then having to fish it out using the API is really awkward and I would not know how to identify which document relates to which, say, Account.  I would not think this is how Sugar intended the BPM function to be used?

Many thanks

Tony

Tony Chester said:

I would like to handle the resultant merged document directly in the process and my aim is to email it out, but that does not seem possible.

hi Tony Chester

The BPM Action settings allow for that, so rather than assume anything can I check you did the following:

Does that help?

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Hi Vincent,

I am using Enterprise V12 and the widget settings seem a bit different:

Yes, I have set the Action widget to Doc Merge

Setting only give me the following options, there is no dialogue to add an email template.

It seems you are using the wDocs add on, rather than the new built in Doc Merge

Many thanks

Tony

hi Tony,

Yes my example is from Enterprise self hosted, hence only had the wDocs addon option for some time.

Regardless, I am surprised the action widget options have changed so much as to exclude the part for emailing the merged document.

It isn't mentioned in the following knowledgebase highlighting the differences between the 2 versions.

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Knowledge_Base/Doc_Merge/Understanding_Doc_Merge_vs_wDocs/

Suggest logging a support ticket, unless somebody else here knows how to configure the new version for this requirement.

hi Tony,

Yes my example is from Enterprise self hosted, hence only had the wDocs addon option for some time.

Regardless, I am surprised the action widget options have changed so much as to exclude the part for emailing the merged document.

It isn't mentioned in the following knowledgebase highlighting the differences between the 2 versions.

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Knowledge_Base/Doc_Merge/Understanding_Doc_Merge_vs_wDocs/

Suggest logging a support ticket, unless somebody else here knows how to configure the new version for this requirement.

Good call out! There is already a bug for this feature, bug # 89138, if you would like to contact Support to express your interest in that capability. The team is aware that it's a valuable feature that wasn't brought over when wDocs was brought into Sugar though and hopefully we will see it added soon enough!

I'll also make sure we update that article to mention it too, thanks for mentioning that.

-Brenda

hi Brenda Rossetto
Thanks for updating the article.

When you say hope to see it soon, can you help push for this to be resolved for v12.0.1 please, as otherwise I see lots of unhappy customers that are already using this feature with wDocs and v11 and then break it on upgrade?

Other differences that could break existing wDocs user experience are:

• Ability to Generate Labels
• Categories for Templates

Thanks for looking into this.

Hi Vincent Amari

Emailing the merged document is a work in progress, so it will be available soon, but not in 12.0.1. 

Ability to Generate Labels is available, you need to Doc Merge and select the checkbox Label Merging

Categories is an open subject - thank you for highlighting it, we will consider this feature for one of our next releases, as we want our customers to be comfortable using Doc Merge.

Hi Vitalii Stepovenco
If you are still considering Categories, now that Doc templates are moved to their own module, categorising is needed to both to help organise the templates themselves, and also for the output/merged document so as to help users find documents within a specific category. As wDocs used the main Documents module, it covered both of these requirements by default.

Regarding the missing email merged ddocument feature, I see it has been addressed in v12.2 for Sugar Cloud customers, is there a patch available for on premise Enterprise v12.x?