Store Adobe Form in KM

Hi All,
In my development I have created the Adobe form when user click the button in View. Now I want to store the Adobe form(PDF) in the KM Folder. I would appreciate any suggestion how to take it forward.
Thanks and Regards,
Sabari

Hi,
Since you have the PDF file as a byte array in the context you can use standard KM API for uploading the file.
See this blog:
Uploading files to KM repository using Webdynpro APIs
Regards,
Omri

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