Inserting Documents Dynamically
You can insert contents of outer documents to your reports dynamically using doc tags. A doc tag denotes a placeholder within a template for a document to be inserted during run time.
Syntax of a doc tag is defined as follows:
<<doc [document_expression]>>
And simply call the assembler method to generate report like following code snippets:
An expression declared within a doc tag is used by the assembler to load a document to be inserted during runtime. The expression must return a value of one of the following types:
- A byte array containing document data
- A Stream instance able to read document data
- An instance of the Document class
- A string containing a document URI, path, or Base64-encoded document data
While building a report, an expression declared within a doc tag is evaluated and its result is used to load a document which content replaces the doc tag then.
By default, a document being inserted is not checked against template syntax and is not populated with data. However, you can enable this by using a build switch as follows:
<<doc [document_expression] -build>>
When a build switch is used, the assembler treats a document being inserted as a template that can access the following data available at the scope of a corresponding doc tag:
- Data sources
- Variables
- A contextual object
- Known external types