Link Office Word form document with data from PostgreSQL

Two options that I know of:
1) Use Java and the Apache POI project
2) Write a file containing the data in some other format like HTML then
open that with Word.

Tim Clarke

On 30/03/15 09:20, avpro avpro wrote:

Hi all,

Have you ever experienced how to populate fields from a MS Office Word
document with a PostgreSQL data available either in a table or view?

I haven’t seen anything on the web; only possible with MS products, VS
or Access.

Thank you for your input

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If you have windows then yes something like vba to pull data into MS Office Word .. search google for 'ms word odbc connection' a postgres mailing list is not the right place to do this search

If you are on *nix don't have/want windows & office products but want to generate/write to a MS Office Word document then postgresql extension perlu and something from the CPAN library like Win32::Word::Writer will work

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Subject: [SQL] Link Office Word form document with data from PostgreSQL

Hi all,

Have you ever experienced how to populate fields from a MS Office Word document with a PostgreSQL data available either in a table or view?

I haven't seen anything on the web; only possible with MS products, VS or Access.

Thank you for your input

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:20:15 +0200
avpro avpro <avprowebeden@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you ever experienced how to populate fields from a MS Office Word
document with a PostgreSQL data available either in a table or view?

I haven’t seen anything on the web; only possible with MS products, VS or
Access.

Hi,

I use Perl for this. The process is :

-unzip the .docx document, and look for /word/document.xml in the resulting directory
-substitute field names with their values in this file (I don't use MS Word 'fields', though, just placeholders that are unlikely to be found in documents, such as client_name, client_address, facturation_date, etc)
-zip the archive anew with a .docx extension

Voilà.

The code is about 40 lines long, I can post it if you care; the same process also works with Libre/OpenOffice documents

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On 3/30/2015 1:20 AM, avpro avpro wrote:

Have you ever experienced how to populate fields from a MS Office Word
document with a PostgreSQL data available either in a table or view?

I haven’t seen anything on the web; only possible with MS products, VS
or Access.

Thank you for your input

Microsoft Office tools like Word should be able to directly access
Postgres databases via ODBC or OLEDB with the suitable Postgres driver
(odbc or oledb) installed on the Windows system, and configured to
access the Postgres database. I've done this in the past with Excel,
no reason it wouldn't work in Word.

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Il 30.03.2015 15:01, Vincent Veyron ha scritto:

Hi,

I use Perl for this. The process is :

-unzip the .docx document, and look for /word/document.xml in the resulting directory
-substitute field names with their values in this file (I don't use MS Word 'fields', though, just placeholders that are unlikely to be found in documents, such as client_name, client_address, facturation_date, etc)
-zip the archive anew with a .docx extension

Voilà.

The code is about 40 lines long, I can post it if you care; the same process also works with Libre/OpenOffice documents

Hi Vincent, could you please post the code? That would be very nice.

Thank you
vince

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On 3/30/2015 10:18 AM, John R Pierce wrote:

On 3/30/2015 1:20 AM, avpro avpro wrote:

Have you ever experienced how to populate fields from a MS Office Word
document with a PostgreSQL data available either in a table or view?

I haven’t seen anything on the web; only possible with MS products, VS
or Access.

Thank you for your input

Microsoft Office tools like Word should be able to directly access
Postgres databases via ODBC or OLEDB with the suitable Postgres driver
(odbc or oledb) installed on the Windows system, and configured to
access the Postgres database. I've done this in the past with Excel,
no reason it wouldn't work in Word.

Agreed. I too have use PG odbc to link with excel. If it works in
excel it should work in word.

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On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:37:28 +0200
Vincenzo Campanella <vinz65@gmail.com> wrote:
Stirling Newberry <stirling.newberry@gmail.com> wrote:

post the code

Here you go :

http://pastebin.com/eVXZiFws

This is a mod_perl module used in the HeaderParser phase of the Apache request cycle; it first grabs the sql associated with the model, and passes parameters to it; this sql is used to retrieve the required values for the model, and the placeholders in the document are replaced with those values. The user is then redirected to the newly created document

You can see it in action in the demo account of the site referenced in my signature : open any file (those are legal files/insurance claims), click on the 'Contributors' tab (third tab from left; add a contributor if none is present), and click on 'Templates'. Click on the template to generate a document

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thank you all for your responses.

I think to easiest option for me would be to use the ODBC connection. Now
my problem is where to start with the VBA code; but that's for another list.
cheers

On 30 March 2015 at 19:51, Vincent Veyron <vv.lists@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:51 PM, avpro avpro <avprowebeden@gmail.com> wrote:

thank you all for your responses.

I think to easiest option for me would be to use the ODBC connection. Now
my problem is where to start with the VBA code; but that's for another list.
cheers

On 30 March 2015 at 19:51, Vincent Veyron <vv.lists@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:37:28 +0200
Vincenzo Campanella <vinz65@gmail.com> wrote:
Stirling Newberry <stirling.newberry@gmail.com> wrote:

post the code

Here you go :

http://pastebin.com/eVXZiFws

This is a mod_perl module used in the HeaderParser phase of the Apache
request cycle; it first grabs the sql associated with the model, and passes
parameters to it; this sql is used to retrieve the required values for the
model, and the placeholders in the document are replaced with those values.
The user is then redirected to the newly created document

You can see it in action in the demo account of the site referenced in my
signature : open any file (those are legal files/insurance claims), click
on the 'Contributors' tab (third tab from left; add a contributor if none
is present), and click on 'Templates'. Click on the template to generate a
document

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If PHP is an option, you might want to look at the Tiny But Strong template
system (http://www.tinybutstrong.com/), along with the OpenTBS plugin (
http://www.tinybutstrong.com/plugins/opentbs/demo/demo.html).

We used it to replace some homegrown code similar to what Vincent described
that directly manipulated the document. There are enough idiosyncracies
among the file formats that I've been much happier using the TBS code. I
think this is especially true if you are merging multiple records into a
single, repeating template document as opposed to doing a single set of
replacements.

Cheers,
Ken

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Open Office etc can populate fields via JDBC from any database including
PostgreSQL.

Cheers,
Stephen

On 30/03/15 19:52, Tim Clarke wrote:

Two options that I know of:
1) Use Java and the Apache POI project
2) Write a file containing the data in some other format like HTML then
open that with Word.

Tim Clarke

On 30/03/15 09:20, avpro avpro wrote:

Hi all,

Have you ever experienced how to populate fields from a MS Office Word
document with a PostgreSQL data available either in a table or view?

I haven’t seen anything on the web; only possible with MS products, VS
or Access.

Thank you for your input

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