Windward Core
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Ability to iterate foreach tag across tabs in excel spreadsheet
I think it would be beneficial to have the ability to iterate a foreach tag across tabs in excel. i.e. - for each row, display the data on a separate tab in the spreadsheet.
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Essentials Hoodie Official
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https://essentialhoodieofficial.com/1 vote -
Predictable and consistent handling of empty collections in ForEach tags
Have Windward's ForEAch tag behave consistently towards empty collections.
In XSLT as in any programming language where a "foreach" like operator exists, when the collection to loop over is empty, the loop iterates 0 times.
Take for instance this XSLT:
https://xsltfiddle.liberty-development.net/gWmsLAH
Change the XML to contain no Book elements. It will iterate 0 times.Windward behaves differently. Sometimes. Sometimes it iterates 0 times as expected. Sometimes it raises an exception, making Windward unpredictable and unreliable.
See https://support.apryse.com/support/tickets/50936My improvment idea: make Windward predictable en reliable by having it implement the expected behaviour in all cases: iterate 0 times over empty…
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In TEXT function, accept locale settings for the format, or at least let us specify decimal/thousands separators
For the moment, the only ways to define a locale for formatting numbers (esp. decimal and thousand separators) is by using the general option (hence fixed) or an OUT tag (hardcoded).
Our concern is that we produce documents in 25+ languages, for potentially 35+ countries, leading to a huge number of combinations. Having only fixed/hardcoded formats is therefore a problem.
Also, we use a lot of variables to manipulate our data.Consequently, having a good TEXT function would be of great help to us. The possibility to specify a locale (language+country), or at least a language, in the format of…
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In OUT and SET tags, accept variables inside the format
For the moment, Windward only accepts hardcoded format in the "Format" property of OUT tags.
We have a concern because our documents (MS Word) are produced for a lot of countries and languages, making the formatting of the outputs quite a challenge. With hardcoded formats only, we are unable to change the format according to our needs.Hence allowing the "Format" property to use variables would solve — or at least alleviate — the issue, by allowing us to use a format that is not fixed in advance but could be changed in every document depending on data.
For the…
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Add format to SET tag
Similarly to OUT tags, I would like to see a "Format" property in SET tags, so that we can cast numbers to text variables with a proper format.
This is needed, among other reasons, because the "Format" property of OUT tags is more powerful (has more features) than the functions provided by Windward (esp. the TEXT function). Notably, the Format of OUT tags allows the use of a locale to define the format (decimal and grouping separators), which the TEXT function does not accept.This idea is similar to :
- https://windward.uservoice.com/forums/248503-windward-core/suggestions/31730368-allow-formatting-in-set-tags (3 votes)
- https://windward.uservoice.com/forums/248503-windward-core/suggestions/31730263-support-additional-advanced-options-for-set-tags (3 votes)
Therefore I…1 vote -
Auto-rotate included PDFs
In our test summary report, when we generate the document, we need to include PDF files (pulling from our database) into the document occasionally.
Ideally, I think the user should always save the PDF in the same orientation either vertical or horizontal. However, in reality, users do not always do things in the same way.As a result, when we generate the report with PDF included, the PDF cannot always be displayed in the test summary properly. The "horizontal" PDFs get cut off on the right side. If we had a way to auto-rotate the PDF, then we could assure…
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Add use of error bars (SD and SEM) for charts/graphs.
While Windward templates allow for graphs/charts to be used, it does not have the capability to use/show error bars. This is a standard functionality for excel/word office products and the ability to do so with Windward sourced graphs/charts is important to the user community.
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Support of Datamatrix barcode format
We are currently using Datamatrix barcode format for our documents and it would be great if Windward could support this barcode format too.
Thanks by advance.15 votes -
Support for Office document properties
This feature request is about Microsoft Office properties as described on this link : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-or-change-the-properties-for-an-office-file-21d604c2-481e-4379-8e54-1dd4622c6b75
Actually we would need 2 things.
First, we would like to insert (static) properties in our Microsoft Word templates (docx or docm), and when we generate a new document, we would like this new document to keep these properties. Today it is not the case (I've checked).
Second, we would like the possibility to provide dynamic values for these properties, these values coming from our json datasource. Maybe this one is a bit more complex, but for example I would see the possibility to have…
21 votes -
Securing PDF files with AES256 password
The ability to generate PDF file(s) with AES256 passwords.
51 votes -
Support for Cell Diagonal Border for Word and PDF output
Dear,
please see picture - cell diagonal border is not generated in output.
We would appreciate it at least for Car Insurance Card, which is obligatory to be of a certain look.
Thank you3 votes -
Add support for Excel tab colors in the Windward Core .NET Engine
Currently, the Windward Core .NET Engine does not support Excel tab colors. If a user creates an Excel template that includes colored tabs in Windward Designer, the Windward .NET Engine will generate output files with no tab coloring. Please enhance the .NET engine so that tab colors are retained when generating output.
3 votes -
Enable Split Y-axis scale functionality in WINDWARD Word Templates
Enable Split Y-axis functionality in WINDWARD Core.
Example scenario -
Large molecule (Total antibody and ADC) will have a different y-axis scale. Small molecule components will be in different y-axis scales. Both need to be plotted on the same y-axis.42 votes -
Show customized datalabels in charts
In PowerPoint charts it is possible to define a set of data label values (e.g. 71*) to be displayed instead of the value score label. In the attached file I have created an example containing both a value, a linebreak and a text.
This could be very useful in many situations, e.g. to highlight important findings in data.56 votes -
XLSM support
We have a client that we generate reports for who has a macro enabled spreadsheet they want us to re-produce.
It's been a while and I wanted to check in. Does windward still not support XLSM or any macro-enabled spreadsheets? (We're using the .NET engine).
We would like this available so our client can use macro-enabled spreadsheets.
Replink (aka Data Direct)
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https://www.extnoc.com/blog/network-security-assessment-and-benefits/1 vote -
Page Break advanced property
Develop a Page Break advanced property for the ForEach tag that does not start with the first iteration but rather with the second iteration so that if the ForEach tag is at the beginning of the document template, a blank page does not render for that first iteration.
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Order by collection with subitem
It would be interesting to be able to sort a list of objects by the value of a property of a sub-object. The ideal would be to be able to do it with any depth.
Example: sorting a car list by its number of cylinders
[cars].[model].[engine].[number of cylinders]6 votes
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