Automatically generate invoice pdf and save to server when invoice is created

Question

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I'd like for Magento 2 to automatically create the invoice PDF and save it somewhere on the server when an invoice is generated/created.

Is this possible?

Magento 2.2.7

Thanks

Answer 1

I don't think there is something "out-of-the-box" in Magento 2 for this. But you can easily create an observer for the event sales_order_invoice_register. This event is called after a new invoice is created. You can realize that with something like this:

1. register observer in events.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd">
  <event name="sales_order_invoice_register">
    <observer name="yourObserverName" instance="YourCompany\YourModule\Observer\YourObserver" />
  </event>
</config>

2. create YourObserver.php

<?php
namespace YourCompany\YourModule\Observer;

use Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface;

class SavePdfInvoices implements ObserverInterface
{
    protected $_pdfInvoiceModel;
    protected $_outputDirectory;
    private $_myPdfStorageSubDirectory = "pdfinvoices";

    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Sales\Model\Order\Pdf\Invoice $pdfInvoiceModel,
        \Magento\Framework\Filesystem $filesystem
        ) {
            $this->_pdfInvoiceModel = $pdfInvoiceModel;
            $this->_outputDirectory = $filesystem->getDirectoryWrite(\Magento\Framework\App\Filesystem\DirectoryList::VAR_DIR);
    }

    public function execute(\Magento\Framework\Event\Observer $observer)
    {
        try{
            $order = $observer->getData('order');
            if (!$order->hasInvoices()){
               return $this;
            }
            $invoice =  $order->getInvoiceCollection()->getFirstItem();
            $pdfContent = $this->_pdfInvoiceModel->getPdf([$invoice])->render();
            //save to file wherever you want, in this example in var/pdfinvoices/[IncrementID].pdf
            $this->_outputDirectory->writeFile($this->_myPdfStorageSubDirectory. "/" . $invoice->getIncrementId() . ".pdf" ,$pdfContent);
        } catch (Exception $e){
            //some usefull exception handling if you need
        }
        return $this;
    }
}

Answer 2

no dear its not working. Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: User Error: Some transactions have not been committed or rolled back sales_order_invoice_save_after

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