In-Table Master-Detail in Word Processing Document

In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate an In-Table Master-Detail report in Word Processing Document format based on the use case: Working with a Business Case.

The code uses some of the objects defined in The Business Layer.

In-Table Master-Detail in Microsoft Word Document

Creating a In-Table Master-Detail

Practising the following steps you can create In-Table Master-Detail Template in MS Word 2013.

Click the document where you want to add the table.
Press “Insert” tab to insert the table.
Insert a 2x4 table.
Save the template.

Reporting Requirement

As a report developer, you are required to represent customers’ total orders prices and price of each product separately with the following key requirements:

A report must show each customer along with his total orders prices.
It must also show each individual product ordered by the customers.
It must show the sum of the order prices.
It must represent all the information in tabular form.
A report must be generated in the Word Processing Document.

Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine

Customer	Order Price
<<foreach [in customers]>><<[CustomerName]>>	<<[Order.Sum( c => c.Price)]>>
<<foreach [in Order]>> <<[Product.ProductName]>>	<<[Price]>><</foreach>><< /foreach>>
Total:	<<[Sum( m => m.Order.Sum( c => c.Price))]>>

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

Download In-Table Master-Detail Template

Please download the sample In-Table Master-Detail document we created in this article:

In-Table Master-Detail.docx (Template for CustomObject and JSON examples)
In-Table Master-Detail_DB.docx (Template for DataBase examples)
In-Table Master-Detail_DT.docx (Template for DataSet examples)
In-Table Master-Detail_XML.docx (Template for XML examples)

Generating The Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

In-Table Master-Detail in OpenOffice Document

Creating the Template

OpenDocument Text (ODT) is a word processing document format which can be used as an alternative to Microsoft Word Document (DOC/DOCX) formats. Since ODT 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 ODT, please visit Wikipedia article.

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

Open existing template we created in previous topic.
Click “File” and select “Save As”.
Select “OpenDocument Text” from “Save As Type” drop down.
Click “Save”.

Download Template

In-Table Master-Detail_OpenDocument.odt (use same template for JSON examples)
In-Table Master-Detail_DB_OpenDocument.odt
In-Table Master-Detail_DT_OpenDocument.odt
In-Table Master-Detail_XML_OpenDocument.odt

Generating the Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

ODT Template and Report in Apache OpenOffice

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

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

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