Attach the Submission PDF to Emails

If you use the Convert Forms PDF Generator, you can attach the generated submission PDF to any email your form sends, perfect for receipts, registrations, or sending users a tidy copy of their answers. It takes a single Smart Tag in the Email Task's Attachments option.

Attach the Submission PDF

To attach the generated PDF to your email, follow the steps below:

1. Go to Components → Convert Forms → Forms and edit your form.
2. Open the Tasks panel and create a new Email Task (or edit an existing one). Set the Trigger to New Submission and the Action to Send an Email.

3. In the Attachments option, add the submission PDF Smart Tag: {submission.pdf}

   

4. Fill in the rest of the email as usual, give the task a title, enable it, and click Save. Save the form.

On the next submission, the generated PDF is attached to the outgoing email automatically.

Attach the PDF Alongside Other Files

The Attachments option accepts several files separated by commas, so you can send the PDF together with uploaded files or static files from your site:

{submission.pdf}, {field.upload1}, images/terms.pdf

• {submission.pdf} : the generated submission PDF.
• {field.upload1} : a file the user uploaded through a File Upload field.
• images/terms.pdf : any static file, given as a path relative to the root of your webspace.

See Attach Files to Emails for more on attachments in general.

Troubleshooting

• No PDF is attached. Confirm the PDF feature is enabled and configured for this form, so a PDF is generated on submission. Without it, {submission.pdf} has nothing to attach.
• The email didn't send at all. A missing or unreadable attachment path can cause an Email Task to fail. Verify every path in Attachments, then see Troubleshooting Email Delivery.