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Re: [EP-tech] .docx Export

Hi Dennis,
Glad you made this work - hopefully the last part isn't too difficult to sort out!

How are you calling the Export? Is it via the normal /cgi/export url, or another means?

Have you got a 'mimetype' and a 'suffix' parameter set in your export plugin?

Does the 'MultilineExcel' export plugin provide a useful example?
- Setting up either the supplied filehandle, or a filehandle to a variable:
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Feprintsug%2Fmultiline_excel%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Flib%2Fplugins%2FEPrints%2FPlugin%2FExport%2FMultilineExcel.pm%23L44-L58&amp;data=01%7C01%7Ceprints-tech%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cd7391bf4bd724b9ed0a208d828162b6c%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=R9v9Jfvw0z2O9ykUvOfCDd5l3BvFdH7Ie2sY3ugk%2BQw%3D&amp;reserved=0
- returning - either undef (if a filehandle was supplied) - or the variable:
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Feprintsug%2Fmultiline_excel%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Flib%2Fplugins%2FEPrints%2FPlugin%2FExport%2FMultilineExcel.pm%23L93-L98&amp;data=01%7C01%7Ceprints-tech%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cd7391bf4bd724b9ed0a208d828162b6c%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=aehDw2J5VoJzpcz3kQII6qJYYDkn5BV%2BjSwe8i76AA0%3D&amp;reserved=0

If that doesn't help, let me know and I'll do some more thinking!

Cheers,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dennis Müller via Eprints-tech
Sent: 14 July 2020 16:49
To: John Salter <J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk>; eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] .docx Export

Hi John,

thanks for your quick answer. With your help, I could more or less do
what I want with the document saving it to some path on the server.

However, I'm struggling to find out how to return the actual document in
my export plugin's "output_list" subroutine. Returning $oodoc or the
file path doesn't work, obviously. Can you help me out once more, please?

Cheers,
Dennis

Am 10.07.20 um 15:33 schrieb John Salter:
> Hi Dennis,
> I think you should be able to achieve this.
> It's similar to the way the OpenOffice / Coversheets works.
> That's normally configured to export as a PDF, but it first takes an OpenOffice document (your branded template), and replaces tags (like '##TITLE##') with rendered content.
> 
> These are the tags:
> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Feprintsug%2Fcoversheets%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Fcfg%2Fcfg.d%2Fz_coversheet_tags.pl&amp;data=01%7C01%7Ceprints-tech%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cd7391bf4bd724b9ed0a208d828162b6c%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=tIwQzj5bNq5P9GDsN7QXrAaRMLVwxHyFjIJpKAbsBbk%3D&amp;reserved=0
> and this adds them to the OpenOffice document:
> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Feprintsug%2Fcoversheets%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Flib%2Fplugins%2FEPrints%2FPlugin%2FConvert%2FAddCoversheet.pm%23L114-L127&amp;data=01%7C01%7Ceprints-tech%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cd7391bf4bd724b9ed0a208d828162b6c%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=N2s6lC7X0pdw8qNfqWkpUcts8SCLZsFL28v0qETd%2BcU%3D&amp;reserved=0 
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> There are probably other ways - possibly other perl modules that would allow a more direct approach - but the above stuff seems to work OK.
> I'm using it with LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice if that's useful to know too.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dennis Müller via Eprints-tech
> Sent: 10 July 2020 14:15
> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Subject: [EP-tech] .docx Export
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> we've had a user request for exporting views/searches as a .docx file
> styled in our corporate design. Has anyone ever done something similar?
> 
> Just for the file format, it might work to "wrap" a simple text export
> in an exporter that has a
> "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document" mimetype,
> but I don't see where I could slip in the design template along the way.
> 
> I'd be glad to hear from your experiences. :)
> 
> Best regards
> Dennis
> 

-- 
Dennis Müller, B.A.


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