Autogenerating content from forms

[tristancolgate]

Hi,

I want to use Alfresco to do the following:
1.  The user enters some data either on or offline (perhaps in an Excel template that we provide)
2.  Once that data is checked in, they can run an action which creates a number of additional documents…PDFs…that are prepopulated with the data from the original form

Has anyone had experience of doing this and what would be the best way to go about it?

Thanks,

Tristan

[ronnytimmermans]

Hi,

you can you Apache POI to extra data from e.g. the microsoft documents and then write these using a rule on space e.g. into your doucments.
For writing, you can use webscripts.

Regards,
Ronny

[derek]

Hi,
I want to use Alfresco to do the following:
1.  The user enters some data either on or offline (perhaps in an Excel template that we provide)
2.  Once that data is checked in, they can run an action which creates a number of additional documents…PDFs…that are prepopulated with the data from the original form
Has anyone had experience of doing this and what would be the best way to go about it?
Thanks,
Tristan

Hi, Tristan
The solution depends on what type of code you're comfortable with.  Would you be able to implement policy handling code in Java, for example?