Package com.groiss.office

Class DocCreator

java.lang.Object

com.groiss.office.DocCreator

public class DocCreator
extends Object

Create a document from an open office template. The class contains two create methods, one can be used as task-function, one as system step.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DocCreator()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	create(String template, String templatefield, String format, String docname)	System step or postcondition for creating a document.
void	create(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)	Task function for creating an office document.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

DocCreator

public DocCreator()

Method Details

create

public void create(HttpServletRequest req,
 HttpServletResponse res)
            throws Exception

Task function for creating an office document. You may use the function in a form, the worklist and the DMS. The process context is taken either from the request parameter functionTask, containing the oid of the current activity instance (when called from form toolbar or worklist) or from the folder parameter, containing the classname:oid of the process instance (for DMS function) Define a task-function object with the following method: com.groiss.office.DocCreator.create?format=ftm&docname=name&template=temp See the method below for description of the parameters. If the additional parameter show has the value true, the file is sent to the browser. If show is not activated, the target window of the function should be HIDDEN. In the DMS case the table is refreshed, otherwise nothing is done.

Throws:

Exception

create

public boolean create(String template,
 String templatefield,
 String format,
 String docname)

System step or postcondition for creating a document.

Parameters:

template - the path to an odt document in the DMS Specify the complete path, for example COMMON/templates/templ1.odt

templatefield - optionally you can specify a field (formid.fieldid), that contains the template name. The complete path is then built in the following way: template + "/" + formfield-value + ".odt"

format - pdf, odt or doc

docname - the name of the resulting document, if it should be attached to the process. The following placeholders (in curly braces) can be used: ou for organizational unit, id for process id, process for process definition name and subject for process instance subject. e.g. Docname-{id}.

Returns:

always true