Single Row Image in Spreadsheet Document

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

Single Row in Microsoft Excel Document

Creating a Single Row

Please follow below steps to create Single Row Image in MS Excel 2013:

  1. Create a new Workbook.
  2. Insert a desired shape to display image in it.
  3. Go to Insert Tab and select shape by clicking on Shape Icon.
  4. Write “Name” and “Contact Number” to show name and contact info of the customer.
  5. Save the template.

Reporting Requirement

As a report developer, you are required to represent information of first single customer with the following key requirements:

  • The report must show image of the customer
  • It must show Name and Contact Number of the customer
  • The report must be generated in the Spreadsheet Document.

Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine

<<image [customer.Photo]>>

 

Name:

<<[customer.CustomerName]>>

Contact Details:

<<[customer.CustomerContactNumber]>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip
For detailed technical information about syntax, expressions and report generation by the engine, please visit: Working with GroupDocs.Assembly Engine.

Download Single Row Template

Please download the sample Single Row document we created in this article:

Warning
Use this template for DB, Dataset, JSON and XML examples also.

Generating The Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

Single Row in OpenOffice Spreadsheet Document

Creating the Template

OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) is a spreadsheet document format which can be used as an alternative to Microsoft Excel Document (XLS/XLSX) formats. Since ODS 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 ODS, please visit wikipedia article.

In this topic, we’ll not reinvent the wheel to recreate a template for generating an ‘Single Row’ report in ODS format. Instead, we’ll save the existing template to ODS 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 Spreadsheet” 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

ODS Template and Report in Apache OpenOffice

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

  • We opened the ODS 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 ODS report generated through GroupDocs.Assembly in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2. The report opened successfully in Apache OpenOffice without any issues or formatting losses.