Turns out this way of doing is not compatible with every docx editor, e.g. Word Online displays a broken table and Libreoffice drops the <w:r> tag altogether as it is in a <w:t>.
I've submitted a PR to try and implement an real docxRaw helper: https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport-docx/pull/23
Feedback welcome :)
Inspired by https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport/issues/713, here's a docxRaw helper that allows to insert raw dynamic content:
function docxRaw(d) {
return new Handlebars.SafeString(d)
}
Can then be used in docx template as:
{{docxRaw mydata}}
With sample data:
{ "mydata": "<w:r><w:rPr><w:color w:val=\"FF0000\"/></w:rPr><w:t>Red</w:t></w:r>"}
Yeah, it works with a single cell and a generic table style thanks!
Looks like I lost my table's original style at some point, probably while editing the document with Word Online.
The only thing that seems to work is to put everything in the same cell but then we loose the ability to have a different formatting to header row and other rows:
Oh, that explains why I did not find any examples of this in the playground!
I'm indeed using jsreport 2.10 locally, I just created the above playground to showcase my issue.
Anyway, when generating a report locally with the same template and data, here is what I get:
The template:
The data:
{
"rowsItems": [
["Jan", "jan.blaha@foo.com"],
["Boris", "boris@foo.met"],
["Pavel", "pavel@foo.met"]
],
"columnsItems": ["Name", "Email"]
}
Hi,
I'm trying to understand how docxTable is supposed to work with dynamic columns while keeping specific formatting for header row and normal rows. I'm successfully using simple docxTable with only rows data putting the {{#docxTable} and {{/docxTable}} tags respectively in the first and last cell of the first non-header row.
In which cells are the {{#docxTable} and {{/docxTable}} tags supposed to be placed for dynamic columns?
I've set up a sample here: https://playground.jsreport.net/w/pdecat/GmHy17Ev
But right now it's failing with:
Error: Error while executing docx recipe. Error while executing templating engine. Must pass iterator to #each.
I've based this sample on what I found in the existing test cases in the jsreport-docx source repository, e.g.:
I'm already using Studio configured to detect filesystem changes, but I'm editing the template document in Word Online as I cannot use Word directly on linux and editing with Libreoffice causes formatting issues. So, I'm downloading a copy once in a while. Poor workflow, I agree...
An odt recipe would be awesome!
Hi, and thanks for the prompt response!
Agreed leaving the docx output in an inconsistent state is not desired at all.
My goal is to try and speed up the time needed to develop a template making many changes at once. Failing on the first error makes it a painful retry and error cycle.
Having some cases like the empty data to chart just warnings would be a great improvement for starters.
I only glanced at the jsreport-docx code, so I do not realize yet if this is possible, but couldn't the output be buffered by logical blocks, e.g. when processing a docxChart or a docxTable, before making it in the output when the complete block was properly processed?
Hi,
I'm experimenting with the docx recipe, and when using docxChart, I noticed the slightest error in the data (missing data, incorrect data structure) fails the complete render with an error like:
2020-10-19T14:29:39.111Z - warn: Error when processing render request 12 Error while executing templating engine. docxChart helper requires data parameter to be set. Error on line 312:13.
310 | global.docxChart = function (options) {
311 | if (options.hash.data == null) {
> 312 | throw new Error('docxChart helper requires data parameter to be set')
| ^
313 | }
314 |
315 | if (!Array.isArray(options.hash.data.labels) || options.hash.data.labels.length === 0) {
Error: docxChart helper requires data parameter to be set
at Object.global.docxChart (evaluate-template-engine-helpers.js:312:13)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/patrick/test/node_modules/jsreport-core/lib/render/engineScript.js:207:27)
at Object.wrapper (/home/patrick/test/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/internal/wrapHelper.js:15:19)
at eval (eval at createFunctionContext (/home/patrick/test/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/compiler/javascript-compiler.js:262:23), <anonymous>:13:128)
or
2020-10-19T13:52:04.386Z - warn: Error when processing render request 15 Error while executing docx recipe. Cannot read property 'cloneNode' of undefined Error: Error while executing docx recipe. Cannot read property 'cloneNode' of undefined
at module.exports (/home/patrick/test/node_modules/jsreport-core/lib/util/createError.js:11:13)
at Reporter.createError (/home/patrick/test/node_modules/jsreport-core/lib/reporter.js:332:12)
at Object.execute (/home/patrick/test/node_modules/jsreport-docx/lib/recipe.js:58:20)
at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
at async module.exports (/home/patrick/test/node_modules/jsreport-core/lib/render/render.js:150:5)
caused by: TypeError: Cannot read property 'cloneNode' of undefined
at /home/patrick/test/node_modules/jsreport-docx/lib/postprocess/processChart.js:370:75
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
at processChart (/home/patrick/test/node_modules/jsreport-docx/lib/postprocess/processChart.js:369:64)
at /home/patrick/test/node_modules/jsreport-docx/lib/postprocess/drawingObject.js:71:33
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
Would it be possible to still log these errors as warnings but not fail the complete render?
Hi, is there any way to refresh an index / TOC in defined in a docx template at render time?
Hi, looks like this was implemented as {{docxPageBreak}}: https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport-docx/commit/3c5418e720d511b0f6ad85ea7c9ac69d95a707e0
But it is not documented at https://jsreport.net/learn/docx