# MaltReport

PLEASE NOTE:

• At this very moment I'm rewriting the old library, the next coming v3.0 will be an incompatible version;
• I'm also working on a additional commerce library for the docx/xlsx support, closed-source library for MS-Office seems fair;
• The super old and buggy OfficeML support will be dropped, the OfficeML format is a legacy from 2003;
• More real world unit tests, more documents;
• Check dev branch to track the progress of the incoming v3 series.

MaltReport is an OpenDocument/OfficeOpenXML powered document template engine for .NET and Mono, it is inspired by the excellent Relatorio Project.

There is a briefly introduction in Chinese: MaltReport2 中文使用简介

MaltReport DO NOT REQUIRES MS-Office or LibreOffice to generate document. Instead MaltReport manipulates ODT/ODS/XLS/DOC file by itself, so it could be fast & reliable.

Documents

• Wiki

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2017: This project is written in C# 7.0 using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition.

Supported Platform

• .NET Framework 4.6.1
• .NET Standard 1.6+

Installation

MaltReport can be installed from NuGet.

Demo & Usage:

Step 1: Organize your data into Context

var employees = new Employee[]
{
    new Employee{ Name = "Micheal Scott", JobTitle = "Branch Manager" },
    new Employee{ Name = "Pam Beesly", JobTitle = "Office Administrator" },
    new Employee{ Name = "Jim Halpert", JobTitle = "Salesman" },
    new Employee{ Name = "Dwight Schrute", JobTitle = "Salesman" },
    new Employee{ Name = "Andy Bernard", JobTitle = "Salesman" },
};

var image = new ImageBlob("jpeg", File.ReadAllBytes("Image.jpeg"));

var data = new Dictionary<string, object>()
{
    { "employees", employees },
    { "image", image },
};

var context = new TemplateContext(data);

Step 2: Prepare your template

Step 3: Load & render your template

using (var stream = File.OpenRead("EmployeesTemplate.odt"))
{
    var odt = OdfDocument.LoadFrom(stream);
    var template = new OdtTemplate(odt);

    var result = template.Render(context);

    var desktopDir = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
    var outputFile = Path.Combine(desktopDir, "generated.odt");

    result.Save(outputFile);
}

Step 4: Check the generated document out:

License

MaltReport is licensed in the MIT license.

Author: Wei "oldrev" Li oldrev@gmail.com

• Copyright (C) 2009 Wei "oldrev" Li
• Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Sandwych Consulting LLC.
• Copyright (C) 2017-TODAY Binary Stars Technologies LLC. & Contributors

CREDITS

• Fluid