My goal is to attach a PDF version of a google doc in a Gmail attachment. I have generated the document with apps script and saved it in a folder in Drive. The email is sent with an attachment in PDF, but the pdf file contains nothing (it is completely blank). The relevant code I'm using:
var blob = DriveApp.getFileById(docID).getAs("application/pdf"); // problem line?
GmailApp.sendEmail(clientEmail, 'subject', 'Please see the attached file.', {
attachments: [blob],
name: 'Automatic Emailer Script',
});
And I have already tried using the code from Google here:
var file = DriveApp.getFileById(docID);
MailApp.sendEmail(clientEmail, 'Attachment example', 'Please see attached.', {
name: 'Automatic Emailer Script',
attachments: [file.getAs(MimeType.PDF)] // something going on here?
});
In both instances I recieve an email with a PDF attachement with the correct filename, but it is completely blank and doesn't contain the content of the (google doc) document it was supposedly generated from. Am I missing something when creating the blob? Are there document-specific parameters I need to correctly generate the blob?
I'm obviously missing something - sorry if it is very obvious!