Prasad Parmeswaran

This is a very simple article explaining how to set the password security for the Documents sent using XML/BI Publisher. It becomes  crtical to safeguard the information  while electronically sending  documents of  financial importance like Invoices ,Statements or Remmitances .

Q :What are the security Settings that can be set for PDF ?

Ans - > Following table explains some of the Security properties possible through XML /BI Publisher

2) Why and How  to set Password for PDF File sent through XML Publisher?

Ans : This feature is particularly useful when you are sending invoices or remittances docs  and you would like to safeguard the financial information .

I am explaining here the way to achieve this using rtf template

There are 2 ways to achieve this , programmatically and through template at design time

Programatically: 

        It can be done using java code by setting the properties using the code below            

        Properties prop= new Properties();

        prop.put("pdf-security", "true"); //  PDF security   control

        prop.put("pdf-permissions-password", "abc"); // permissions   assword

        prop.put("pdf-open-password","welcome");

        prop.put("pdf-encription-level", "0");  //encryption level

pass the set properties to TemplateHelper Class

TemplateHelper.processTemplate(

appsContext,                           // AppsContext

applShortName,                      // Application short name of the template

templateCode,                         // Template code of the template

langCode,                                // ISO language code of the template

territoryCode,                         // ISO territory code of the template

dataInputStream,                    // XML data for the template

outputType,                             // Output type of the procesed document

properties,                              // Properties for the template processing

docOutputStream);                 // OutputStream where the processed document goes.

                                                }

Design  Time 

1)      Open the .rtf

2)      Go to File - > Properties

 Create a new custom property

a)     Name   : xdo-pdf-open-password

Type     : text

Value    : Either Hard Code the vale / or get the value for xml data

b)    Name :  xdo-pdf-security

Type   :  text

Value  : true

            Please Note : property name should always start with xdo- .

3)      Once this is done , opening the PDF will prompt you for a password

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