How to use Google Drive attachments in Document Merge

How to use Google Drive attachments in Document Merge

Hi all,

We have set up a Zoho Form and want to use Document Merge with Zoho Writer to generate styled PDF. We ask for different data types including files and images within a subform.
We use Google Drive to store our Form Attachments, as provided by Zoho Forms.

When submitting the form, the PDF file is successfully created with the images included. At this moment, the image source still link to the Zoho server, and not to Google Drive (example: https://forms.zoho.eu/xxx/form/xxx/recordperma/6IYEwy1KQDJ2vzy-UYB7gLM9_Y-XeC7alZ542cCXUtE/subform/SubForm4/field/ImageUpload2/downloadfileperma?filepath=%2Fxxx%2FImageUpload2%2F1653462033352_xxx.png).
When updating an entry, this PDF file is not regenerated, so newly added information will not be updated...

When we try to generate the document via the "entries"-screen, we don't get any images at all in the created document.



Does anyone know how to (re)generate these files correctly with images from Google Drive included?

Thanks in advance!


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