Can I render a report from an arbitrary HTML template on the file system?
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Is it possible to render a report from a template that is not stored in the jsreport repository?
I'm basically looking for a way to use jsreport as a renderer with report templates being developed, stored and retrieved by our application.
If possible I'd like to avoid writing custom extensions.
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hi! well, you can send the html content directly in request so i guess nothing is stopping you from reading the contents of some files in your file system and just pass them to jsreport template content option.
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Do you mean API POST to /report?
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yes, exactly
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Thank you!
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more fancy options that integrate with jsreport studio will need a custom extension, wait a bit for the jsreport v2 launch and you can have more details about implementing a custom store that get/save templates from your app
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This is very common scenario. I call in this use case jsreport as stateless.
There are only few limitations. You cannot use for example child templates because those are being loaded from the jsreport store.
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Interesting, I guess it wouldn't be a big stretch to enable all templates (main and child ones) to be provided as part of the content to make stateless approach even more powerful. Would you consider such a feature?
The main reason for us for managing reports outside of the jsreport server is to be able to put the templates under the version control.
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Have you seen the version control extension?
https://jsreport.net/learn/version-controlEven without that, it is no problem to mount the jsreport data folder to your git/svn... version control.
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Interesting, thank you!
How would one go about installing extensions on the SaaS?
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you mean jsreportonline right?
The current model doesn't allow it.
However the version control will soon ship there together with whole jsreport v2.
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since you've mentioned the v2 a couple of times, is there a release schedule for it?
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Beta anytime, today, tomorrow....
Cannot promise when the production final release will be out.
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FYI v2 beta released https://jsreport.net/blog/jsreport-v2-beta
