Chart as Images into docxtemplater

jamesamurr-bind

@cachenbach which part of the implementation required the commercial version? I think I have this same use case. I'm not apposed to paying for it, but want to know that it is going to work in my case.

jamesamurr-bind

@jan_blaha is there more documentation on the output from the jsreport.render() function? I'm trying to replicate this same use case. From your link above I see there is result.content but I don't know what it is, if it has properties, what format it is, etc. Thanks!

cachenbach

@jamesamurr-bind I required the commercial version of docxtemplate (not jsreport) because of the image module, which is only available in the commercial version: https://docxtemplater.com/demo/#image

jamesamurr-bind

@cachenbach were you able to trial the paid version? Thanks for the response.

cachenbach

@jamesamurr-bind No, I did not try the trial. But I was able to "simulate" the result when I put the Base64 encoded image string into the docxtemplate demo.

jamesamurr-bind

Got it. That makes sense! Thanks.

jamesamurr-bind

@jan_blaha also could you give more info or documentation on how to "pass it to the req.data". I'm having a hard time finding more resources about using scripts to manipulate input data.

jamesamurr-bind

hmmm is it similar to this example? Just modify the config if you want to change the config?

const jsreport = require('jsreport-proxy')
async function beforeRender(req, res) {
  const assets = await jsreport.documentStore.collection('assets').find({name: 'myConfig'})
  const config = JSON.parse(assets[0].content.toString())
  req.data.config = config
}

jamesamurr-bind

That didn't seem to work. Here's what I was trying. Let me know how I should change it.

My docx document has

{myImageData}

in it.

Data:

{
    "myImageData": null
}

My beforeRender script

const jsreport = require('jsreport-proxy')

async function beforeRender(req, res) {
  console.log('starting rendering from script');
  const result = await jsreport.render({ template: { name: 'DoubleDonutTemplate' } });
  contentAsBase64 = Buffer.from(result.content).toString('base64');
  req.data.myImageData = contentAsBase64.toString();
}

This results in {myImageData} in the document to be replaced with undefined. So I can only guess that it's not working the way I expect. How do I set the req.data.myImageData variable correctly from the script? Do I need to invoke my script some way or does it run automatically?

jamesamurr-bind

I figured it out! Turns out you have to select the script to be used by the template :) The above code was correct.

Whoops! Thanks again everyone for your help.