Has anyone had success in creating a Report generator class to properly fill holes in a Word document?

I have been working with the Report generator dom.api function moveToNextHole(report) to fill in content controls in a Microsoft Word ".dotx" template with no issues. However, in trying to use a class to fill in the content control holes, anything I try to populate (whether text, pictures, or any other content) just ends up at the beginning of the output document, not where the content control holes are. I found this to be true even in just trying to use the Mathworks example given in the "mlreportgen.dom.Document.fill" documentation.

Answer 1

[Paul Kinnucan]

To generate a report from a DOM-based document object:

• Derive your report class from mlreportgen.dom.Document class, for example

% MyReport.m
class MyReport < mlreportgen.dom.Document
    method
       function rpt = MyReport(name)
          [e-mail](name, 'docx', 'MyTemplate');
       end
    end
end

• Provide a public fill<HOLEID> method for each hole in your report template, where HOLEID is the name of the hole, for example,

    class MyReport < mlreportgen.dom.Document
        method
           function rpt = MyReport(name)
              [e-mail](name, 'docx', 'MyTemplate');
           end

           % This method is called by mlreportgen.dom.Document's fill method.
           % Do not call it yourself.
           function fillReportDate(rpt)
               append(rpt, date);
           end

        end
    end

• Create a report program (i.e., script or function) to run the report.
• In the report program, create an instance of your report class and call its fill method (inherited from mlreportgen.dom.Document class), for example,

% runMyReport.m
rpt = MyReport('myreport');
fill(rpt);
rptview(rpt.OutputPath);