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Document Template

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Hi everyone, My organization is heavily relying on the Document Template (DT) feature in Mendix, and I just saw that it will be deprecated in Mendix 11.24. Currently, we have more than 350 Document Templates in use across our applications. I’d like to ask the community: Are there any organizations here in a similar situation, heavily relying on DTs? How are you planning to overcome this change? What alternatives or best practices have you identified to replace DTs at scale? Any advice, strategies, or experiences would be really helpful as we plan our migration. Thanks in advance!

asked 2025-09-30

Lim Ming He

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Martin Koelewijn · Answer 1 · 2025-09-30

We had a few document templates and refactored the flows to build (x)html instead and convert that to pdf using a rather small java action (using the flying saucer library). If you know your way around html and CSS you can create nice and pixel perfect documents this way including pictures, different fonts, headers, footers, logical page breaks etc.

There is of course the Document Generation module by Mendix, but that has its downsides, starting with limitations concerning file size and number of documents per day. We create thousands of documents some days on a regular basis, so for us this was not an option.