We have an app that is used for Pickup and delivery as well as regular service and preventive maintenance. We have one customer that demands a certain form and would like a different form for the others depending on whether it is a pickup/delivery, a PM service or a regular service. Any chance that we may be able to use the PDF designer to make different PDF's for the same app?
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Not the same, but along the same lines as this:
https://help.gocanvas.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000849248-Allow-default-PDF-output-per-user-or-per-group-per-app
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but one thing you could consider would be to add a drop down to the first screen or an early screen in your app, and then populate that drop down with reference data or just static choices for the different types of submissions your app allows (pickup/delivery, PM, or regular in your case).
Then you could use conditional screens that only contain the data particular to that type of submission based on the drop down value chosen.
You can then set the fields on those conditional screens to only show if value is present in the More section:
We have this on one of our apps and it basically enables the whole app to change dynamically based on the type of submission, and also allows the PDF output to change dramatically based on which type of submission is done if that makes sense.
It took some amount of effort to get everything on the PDF output to behave right, but once it was set up it has been working fine.
But I agree with you, it would be awesome to be able to set up multiple PDF Designer PDFs and then trigger them based on the value of one or more fields in the submission.