Do you know if there are any other possibilities or workarounds to achieve the goal I am aiming for (inserting images without the need to "position" them in the template before) through jsreport?

for now, this is the only way to do it, basically, all our approaches require the docx element to exists (image, table, list, etc) in order to modify it or create more items based on the template element and data

the steps i described above should copy your package.json and install the modules in your package.json, take a deep look, it is almost the same file just with some lines modified.

if you hit any error let me know.

i see, for a moment i was thinking that you were using our same steps (in dockerfile) to build your image.. as I said, building chrome is a bit special, the best for you will be to follow this.

so in the end you dockerfile can be something like this.

FROM jsreport/jsreport:2.10.0
WORKDIR src/app
COPY --chown=jsreport:jsreport package*.json ./
RUN npm install
COPY --chown=jsreport:jsreport . .
EXPOSE 3003
CMD [ "npm", "start" ]

hi! if you are creating your image from scratch and copy/paste the steps from our docker file it is normal that you had issues with chrome. why? because the chrome it is a bit special to download, there are some online binaries that only work for some time and after that, they disappear. this means that when you build a container at some time it means that it can download and have everything ok but if you try to rebuild or create a new image with the same steps it in the future it may fail because the same chrome binaries are probably gone from the internet. please share the docker file you are trying to build and also the error message you have

FYI, i noticed in the picture I have sent that your #if condiction was having some spaces so it was not working as expected before, the spaces were removed in the playground link and now it works normally (the #if call does not end in the final document)

@itdl1 as per the docxImage instructions the docx template needs to have a real word image defined, then the docxImage helper call needs to go in a bookmark. we don't support generating an image from scratch using just the helper alone.

here is your update example working: https://playground.jsreport.net/w/bjrmatos/4EZexY23

the shape of what you need to pass in the API is the same content data "testdata01" in the playground, so the image should be in data base64 uri

again, to set up the image correctly read the docxImage instructions and you should be good.

sure, we are aware of that and we plan to analyze how we are going to proceed with that, in the meantime, the library works great, it has a lot of years of maturity so there is not immediate pressure to replace it.

@on2air we allow the request module in jsreportonline, you can use it in script just fine.

here is an example in a script that fetch an image and put the result of the image as base64 in data

const request = require('request')

async function beforeRender (req, res) {
    const imageUrl = req.data.imageUrl

    const imageBase64 = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        request.get(imageUrl, {
            encoding: null
        },
        function(error, response, body) {
            if (error) { return reject(error) }

            if (response.statusCode === 200) {
                resolve(Buffer.from(body).toString('base64'))
            } else {
                reject(new Error('Got not 200 response. status code: ' + response.statusCode))
            }
        })
    })

    req.data.imageBase64 = imageBase64
}

hi! how are you trying to use jsreport in your app? i ask this because, in node.js, jsreport can be integrated in two modes.

1.- you can run jsreport standalone, and this means that it is basically a separate app/server.
2.- you can attach jsreport into an existing express app, and this means that jsreport is just a set of routes specially designed for reporting inside of your app/server

if you are using fastify, i think your best option will be to try option 1.

in both cases, when you need to render something from the front-end, all you need to do is a http request from the browser to the jsreport server/routes, we provide a generic browser client to abstract the http requests, this should work in any browser. however since angular has its own way to do http request, you will need to search a bit and replicate the http request to the jsreport server in the angular way. we don't have experience with angular so that is why there is no example with it, however, this should not be too difficult to achieve. here you can find some details about the http request that you need to do.

hi! how are you defining the docxTable? are you trying to create the table from the scratch using the {{docxTable rows=rowsItems columns=columnsItems}}? if yes, then this is not supported at the moment, however for the classic usage of docxTable it should be already supported if you have some merged cell already on the row.