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EXTENDING ODF-FIELDS FOR SMART DOCUMENT PROCESSING WHAT ARE WE DOING? For over 25 years CIB has been successfully providing Document Lifecycle Management solutions. CIB software aids in all phases of the document lifecycle Consulting,

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EXTENDING ODF-FIELDS FOR SMART DOCUMENT PROCESSING

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For over 25 years CIB has been successfully providing Document Lifecycle Management solutions.

WHAT ARE WE DOING?

– CIB software aids in all phases of the document lifecycle – Consulting, PDF and RTF technology – 160 employees, HQ in Munich, with offices in Karlsruhe, Hamburg, Münster, Minsk and Las Palmas – Customers in Europe throughout the Middle East — more than 300 large and medium-sized businesses – More than 160,000 private customers – More than 2 million licenses in use world-wide, strong presence in the German financial/insurance/banking sector – CIB technology is helping our customers to produce more than 500 million documents per year

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REQUIREMENTS ON PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENT GENERATION

BUSINESS LETTER IN CORPORATE IDENTITY, OPTIONALLY INDIVIDUALIZED

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REQUIREMENTS ON PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENT GENERATION

SEPARATE TEMPLATES OUT INTO BUILDING BLOCKS (INCLUDE FEATURE)

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REQUIREMENTS ON PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENT GENERATION

IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPLEX LOGIC

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REQUIREMENTS ON PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENT GENERATION

FILL RESULTING DOCUMENT FROM DATABASE

Simple key-value pairs Lists Complex reports: Lists of lists

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WHAT'S MISSING IN ODF FIELDS?

> Include statements > Ability to do complex text formatting within fields > Loops, and conditions > Arbitrary code, e.g. for custom number formatting, and other processing of database content > Dynamic content, e.g. tables or list of lists

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REMEDY, ROUND ONE

In content.xml: <text:p text:style-name="P1"> <text:user-field-get text:name="cibBlockStart">{ </text:user-field-get> <text:span text:style-name="T2"> FIELD CONTENT </text:span> <text:user-field-get text:name="cibBlockEnd"> }</text:user-field-get> </text:p> Visual appearance:

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JSMERGE FIELD TYPES

Script fields: Content fields:

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JSMERGE API FUNCTIONS

  • text()

{# text("Hello World!"); }

  • include()

{# include("header.odt"); }

  • getProperty() / setProperty()
  • Database control functions:

getData(), setData(), mergeRec(), nextRec(), resetRec()

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DEMO

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WHY WOULD WE?

  • Flexibility
  • Free to extend by new programming languages
  • Free to use different template programming concepts
  • Simplicity
  • Minimal amount of hardcoded functions
  • Usage of a known language
  • Universality
  • Supported roundtrips in alien formats
  • No fundamental problems to support other formats
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REMEDY, ROUND TWO

Conceivable ODF markup extension:

In content.xml: <text:p text:style-name="P1"> <text:field-begin field:type="script|content|complex"/> <text:span text:style-name="T2"> FIELD CONTENT </text:span> <text:field-end/> </text:p> Plus a few pre-defined operators, like e.g. include

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THANK YOU!

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CIB software GmbH Elektrastraße 6a 81925 München GERMANY T +49(0)89 / 1 43 60 – 0 F +49(0)89 / 1 43 60 – 100 vertrieb@cib.de www.cib.de