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vinayakb
over 6 years ago
Hi,
I'm looking for a plugin which will add content dynamically to the document and also add formatting as well. Like making the text bold/italic/underline.
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mohammedz
A Score Level 2
over 6 years ago
@vinayah
Dynamic document generation can be done using normal document generation smart service
But this is using doc template in which we have to use HTML tags in the document template. For example: u need to show the grid dynamically in a document u need to use dynamic table tags in your HTML code or if any other stuffs... When you write your custom HTML code and call it in a document template we can achieve the dynamic solution of document generation
Note: This can be done for .doc and .txt document generation
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pramodkumarn1
over 6 years ago
You can use one of the following plugins -
1)
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2)
forum.appian.com/.../summary
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jasmins
over 6 years ago
As suggested by mohammedz we can do using document generation smart services, So we have used Text doc from template smart service to generate excel file using csv template.
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Vinod Bongoni
Certified Lead Developer
over 6 years ago
PDF from XSL-FO Transformation smart service is the best option for styling and formatting with dynamic data.
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vinayakb
over 6 years ago
@Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Our main concern was formatting as we had to dynamically add some content and also add formatting to the content. I was thinking to consider html to pdf which gives more rich formatting options but the only caveat is the header and footer which we have to dynamically add on all pages (considering measuring the content length)
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vinayakb
over 6 years ago
@vindob: That plugin looks promising, let me take a look.
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Vinod Bongoni
Certified Lead Developer
over 6 years ago
Vinayak, If you choose html to PDF then all html pages will converted into only one single page in pdf. So it will not looks great for end users. They have to zoom in to see the content in generated pdf from html.
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chandolum
A Score Level 1
over 6 years ago
@Vinayakb, adding one more point to vinod comments, if you have more than one page, PDF from HTML smart service will break the content as I've faced this situation, and later created the pdf using XSLFO.
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vinayakb
over 6 years ago
Thanks Vinod and Chandolum, I have decided to go ahead with PDF using XSLFO
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