Change Outputformat to Word via API

Dude

Hallo
Right now I am trying to print out my reports in several outputformats. PDF and HTML works just fine even EXCEL is no problem.
Now I would like to create a Word and PowerPoint file. But this does not work so easily.

To create an EXCEL output I just use the EXCELRenderOption class and set some property and it works. For Word or PowerPoint I could not find such class. I just find classes like WordemitterPlugin, WordEmitterDescriptor,PPTEmitter. Are these the right classes to create an Word/PowePoint output ? if these are the right ones. How do I use them? Is there a example of the usability of them?

Or is there a much easier way to get such an output?

I hope you can help me !!

Thanks
Dude

CBR

Hi,<br />
<br />
you are right. PPT and DOC do not have their own EmitterOption object because they do not provide any user specific configuration. That's why you have to use the generic render object. See my code below (it is part a class but you should be able to get it).<br />
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private IRenderOption getRenderOptionsForFormat(String fileName, OutputFormat format) {
/** in principle the options object is enough to render the report in the desired
* format, so just a quick demo of what's possible!
*/
IRenderOption options = new RenderOption();
options.setBaseURL("http://myDomain.com");
options.setSupportedImageFormats("SVG;PNG;JPG;GIF");
//provide corresponding file ending to enable BIRT to find the right emitter (ppt, pdf, doc, ...)
options.setOutputFormat(format.name().toLowerCase());
options.setOutputFileName(fileName);
if(format==OutputFormat.HTML) {
HTMLRenderOption htmlOptions = new HTMLRenderOption(options);

//when set to true there will be no html header!...default is true
htmlOptions.setEmbeddable(false);

// setup the output encoding...default is ISO
htmlOptions.setUrlEncoding( "utf-8" );

htmlOptions.setHtmlPagination( false );

htmlOptions.setImageDirectory(imageDir);
return htmlOptions;
}
else if(format==OutputFormat.PDF) {
PDFRenderOption pdfOptions = new PDFRenderOption(options);

//Set flag indicates if the font needs to be embedded...default is true
pdfOptions.setEmbededFont(true);
return pdfOptions;
}
else if(format==OutputFormat.XLS) {
EXCELRenderOption excelOptions = new EXCELRenderOption(options);

/**
* the option object exists but has no working methods, perhaps with next version
*/
excelOptions.setEnableMultipleSheet(false);
excelOptions.setHideGridlines(true);
excelOptions.setWrappingText(true);

//excelOptions.setOfficeVersion(officeVersion) exists but does nothing
return excelOptions;
}
else if(format==OutputFormat.PS) {
//no option object available here!
return options;
}
else if(format==OutputFormat.DOC) {
//no option object available here!
return options;
}
else if(format==OutputFormat.PPT) {
return options;
}
return null;
}
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