Thread: 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

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
>

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
areunlikely 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
areunlikely 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

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.

-Andy

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
withthe model, and passes parameters to it; this sql is used to retrieve the required values for the model, and the
placeholdersin 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/insuranceclaims), click on the 'Contributors' tab (third tab from left; add a contributor if none is present),
andclick on 'Templates'. Click on the template to generate a document 


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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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