Bulleted List in Presentation Document

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In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate a Bulleted List report in Presentation Document format based on the use case: Working with a Business Case.
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The code uses some of the objects defined in The Business Layer.

Bulleted List in Microsoft PowerPoint Document

Creating a Bulleted List

Practising the following steps you can insert Bulleted List in MS PowerPoint 2013.

  1. Add a new presentation slide.
  2. Add a bullet list at the place where you want it.
  3. Save your Document.

Reporting Requirement

As a report developer, you are required to share the information of the products with the following key requirements:

  • A report must show all the products in a bulleted list format.
  • A report must be generated in the Presentation Document.

Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine

We provide support for the following products:
<<foreach [in products]>><<[ProductName]>>
<</foreach>>
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For detailed technical information about syntax, expressions and report generation by the engine, please visit: Working with GroupDocs.Assembly Engine.

Download Bulleted List Template

Please download the sample Bulleted List document we created in this article:

Generating The Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

Bulleted List in OpenOffice Presentation Document

Creating the Template

OpenDocument Presentation (ODP) is a presentation document format which can be used as an alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint Document (PPT/PPTX) formats. Since ODP is not a Microsoft Proprietary format, there are multiple software (including Microsoft Office and Apache OpenOffice) available to create, open, edit and save this format. For more information on the available software to work with ODP, please visit wikipedia article.

In this topic, we’ll not reinvent the wheel to recreate a template for generating an ‘Bulleted List’ report in ODP format. Instead, we’ll save the existing template to ODP format using Microsoft Office. In order to achieve this; assuming you are using Microsoft Office 2010, please follow below steps:

  1. Open existing template we created in previous topic.
  2. Click “File” and select “Save As”.
  3. Select “OpenDocument Presentation” from “Save As Type” drop down.
  4. Click “Save”.

Download Template

Generating the Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

ODP Template and Report in Apache OpenOffice

In order to check compatibility of ODP between Microsoft Office 2010 and Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2, we performed below tests:

  • We opened the ODP template created through Microsoft Office 2010 in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2. The template opened successfully in Apache OpenOffice without any issues or formatting losses.
  • We opened the ODP report generated through GroupDocs.Assembly in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2. The report opened successfully in Apache OpenOffice without any issues or formatting losses.