redomino.appytransforms

It registers a new portal transforms that let you dynamically generate odt or ods files for a given template.

This product is based on http://appyframework.org/pod.html

Since it aims to generate native LibreOffice/OpenOffice formats, it is not necessary running libre office in server mode.

This plugin is meant for developers, it could be used for generating dynamic odt/ods files, write a custom PloneFormGen adapter, etc.

Usage

Example:

>>> from zope.component import getUtility
>>> from Products.PortalTransforms.interfaces import IPortalTransformsTool
>>> file_contents = open('your odt file with variables').read()     # see redomino/appytransforms/tests/input.odt
>>> portal_transforms = getUtility(IPortalTransformsTool)
>>> converter = portal_transforms.convertTo(target_mimetype='application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text.transformed',
>>>                                        orig=file_contents,
>>>                                        mimetype='application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text',
>>>                                        mapper=dict(plone_version='4.3.2-sunny-day-beta'),
>>>                                       )
>>> transformed_odt_contents = converter.getData()

appy.pod's tips and limitations

Tips and appy.pod's limitations.

Odt files:

• use the "Edit" -> "Changes" -> "Record" in order to display vars
• conditional text fields seems to be not supported (as far as I can see), use comments with do text if expr instead
• libreoffice does not support comments on single words (see http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/5256/comments-in-writer/), so it seems that you'll have to the only way to
• repeating list items, it does not works as expected

Ods files:

• don't use the "Edit" -> "Changes" -> "Record" on ods files!
• repeat rows adding a comment on the first cell with "do row for person in persons" and put dynamic content putting into the cell value ="person['age']"
• if you want to pass a single variable and displaying it into a single cell use the followind syntax into the cell value ="variable_name" (not as a comment)

appy's documentation is awful: if you are in trouble trying to get working ODT/ODS templates check out the tests doc https://github.com/redomino/redomino.appytransforms/tree/master/redomino/appytransforms/tests

Tests

Test status:

How to launch tests:

$ ./bin/test -m redomino.appytransforms

Authors

• Davide Moro <davide.moro@redomino.com>