Using Tables of Word Processing Documents as Data Sources Leave feedback

A table of a word processing document can be loaded as a DocumentTable and used as a data source. Tables are indexed across the whole document in document order, starting from zero. The template can be of any supported format; this example imports a Word table into a presentation.

• Load the second table of a Word document as a DocumentTable, limiting the number of loaded rows
• Assemble a document using the table as a data source

• Managers Data.docx

The document contains two tables. The second one lists managers and their total contract prices, with a Manager / Total Contract Price header row.

• Importing Word Processing Table into Presentation.pptx

The template contains a two-column table. The cells of its row contain:

<<foreach [in table]>><<[Column1]>>

<<[Column2]>><</foreach>>

const groupdocs = require('@groupdocs/groupdocs.assembly');

// Do not extract column names from the first row, so that the first row is treated as a data row.
// Limit the largest row index, so that only the first four rows are loaded.
const options = new groupdocs.DocumentTableOptions();
options.setMaxRowIndex(3);

// Use data of the second table in the document.
const table = new groupdocs.DocumentTable('Managers Data.docx', 1, options);

// Check column count and names.
// NOTE: Default column names are used, because the names are not extracted from the first row.
const columns = table.getColumns();
console.log(columns.getCount());         // 2
console.log(columns.get(0).getName());   // Column1
console.log(columns.get(1).getName());   // Column2

const assembler = new groupdocs.DocumentAssembler();
assembler.assembleDocument('Importing Word Processing Table into Presentation.pptx',
    'Importing Word Processing Table into Presentation_report.pptx',
    new groupdocs.DataSourceInfo(table, 'table'));

process.exit(0);

The table in the report contains the header row of the source table followed by the first three managers:

Note

In evaluation mode, text read from PPTX templates is truncated, which can make template tags invalid. Apply a license to process presentations without this limitation, or use a template of another format. See Evaluation Limitations and Licensing.