Possible bug in Autocrat after June 9 update – Combined PDF generation

[Wim De Cock]

Since the Autocrat update released on June 9, we are experiencing an issue when generating a single combined PDF from multiple spreadsheet rows.

Expected behavior

When selecting the option to generate one combined document/PDF, Autocrat should merge all records and produce a PDF containing one correctly merged report per student.

Actual behavior

• The first report is merged correctly.
• All subsequent reports in the combined PDF contain the original merge tags (e.g. <<ExJunNLSol>>, <<ExJunTot>>, <<Lln>>, etc.) instead of the corresponding data.
• The remaining pages appear to be copies of the original template rather than merged records.

Additional observations

• When generating individual documents/PDFs, all reports are created correctly.
• The issue only occurs when using the option to combine multiple merged records into a single output document/PDF.
• The spreadsheet data and merge tags are therefore valid, since individual merges work without any problems.
• This behavior started after the June 9 update.

Environment

• Google Sheets + Autocrat
• Merge template: Google Docs
• Output: Combined PDF

Attached example:

• Page 1 is merged correctly.
• Following pages show unresolved merge tags instead of data.

[N Postill]

Hi there,

Yes, having a similar problem here today 11/06/26 - Single merge document, with the first merge working but all subsequent entries being the tags.   Running the job as a multiple Docs job works perfectly, just one single output job fails

Last time the job was run 23/04/26 - absoulutely fine.

A resolution to this would be good.

Nick

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[Loyudice Nicolas]

  La automatización dejó de funcionar. Si ejecuto el proceso manualmente (Play/Run), AutoCrat genera el PDF y envía el correo correctamente. El problema es que el disparador automático ya no se ejecuta desde la actualización, por lo que la generación y el envío quedaron deshabilitados en modo automático.  

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[Molly Stone-Ashe]

Hi, I am experiencing a similar issue when using Single Output Mode (except for me, even the first page does not merge correctly).

The merge tags appear correctly if I change to Multiple Output Mode, but this is not a good long term solution for our company.

[Zachary Kolar]

I'm having the same problem! New and existing automations are broken when combining into a single document. This happens for combined PDFs, combined Google Docs, and combined Google Slides. Same as above - the output contains the expected number of pages, but only the first page is filled in. The rest just have the template tags.

When I switch to individual documents, everything merges correctly.