DOCX Report Generator for cURL

Automate DOCX document generation in cURL, create print-ready DOCX reports of any complexity with cURL SDK. This Cloud-based solution is built around templates, data sources and a powerful LINQ-syntax, giving cURL developers the flexibility to fit precise technical and business requirements.

Using this cURL library, you can programmatically build highly customized DOCX reports on any operating system. Richly formatted DOCX documents like contracts, orders, invoices, shipment reports, sales proposals, inventories can be assembled on the fly as a part of your cURL software.

Streamline DOCX document generation using cURL

The importance of Document Automation and Report Generation has grown immensely over the past decades. Almost every company has a need to generate documents and deliver them to partners or customers on time. Moreover, it is usually a decisive factor in financial success. Implementing such technologies can result in significant financial savings by reducing manual data entry, human error, proofreading and paperwork. For these reasons, document automation and reporting tools are an integral part of many modern software solutions that aim to provide advanced analytical features to users.

Generally speaking, DOCX report generation is a process that combines text, data and graphics into a single entity and exports the result in a convenient visual form to DOCX file format. For information on supported I/O formats, please visit our Documentation.

What is GroupDocs Assembly for cURL

GroupDocs Assembly for cURL is a Cloud-based solution for generating DOCX documents using templates and data sources. The document template acts as a base-frame, which, in addition to the standard content (text, tables, charts, etc.), includes special placeholder fields for inserting values from the data source. Not only individual values can be inserted, but also entire arrays of data in the form of tables and graphs.

The template also contains programming constructs - DOCX document generation rules - that control data selection and condition processing. Binding data to a document template uses LINQ-expression syntax, which allows developers to process data in a generic way, regardless of the type of data source used. In this way, our cURL Cloud SDK gives you flexibility in DOCX content generation and a powerful set of methods for data processing.

This product also supports Mail Merge functionality in case you want to create and send batches of personalized letters in DOCX format to customers. You just need to insert Mail Merge fields to the document template and pass it to the Cloud API together with a data source.

Regardless of the scale and type of DOCX document automation you are going to implement, there are three steps to build a report in cURL:

• Create a Word document template with placeholder fields and document generation rules that will regulate structure and content variations
• Create a data source in DOCX or JSON format
• Write a few lines of cURL code to pass everything to the Document Building API and get the assembled result in DOCX format back

Designing a document template and using DOCX document generation rules

Designing templates is a difficult task. In addition to a clear understanding of the requirements for the final DOCX document, analytical and programming skills are required. A good template design should reflect the customer's view on a particular issue. The most effective approach is to combine tabular data and graphics in the right balance, determined by business requirements.

As mentioned above, the template structure usually contains some fixed blocks of content (text, images, logos, etc.) mixed with special programming constructs that control DOCX document assembly logic. These DOCX document generation rules are defined with a special expression syntax, which enables developers to do the following:

• embed external document content, images, charts, lists, tables, hyperlinks, bookmarks, etc.
• work with data using formulas and sequential data operations
• specify the presentation format for numeric, text, graphic, graphic, and date and time elements
• insert blocks of content depending on conditional expressions
• define special variables for 'expensive' calculations that are calculated only once
• calculate formulas when assembling spreadsheet documents
• assign email message body attributes and dynamically create attachments
• create and insert barcodes
• set background color for HTML documents

You can learn more about template syntax in our Developer Guide.

Requirements

GroupDocs Assembly for cURL does not require any external software or third-party tools to be installed. This is a Cloud-based solution for DOCX, where all programming interactions are performed over the network using the REST API.

Security

All GroupDocs products are fully compliant with industry security standards: data transfer is carried out using the SSL protocol, which eliminates the possibility of information being intercepted by third parties. To connect to GroupDocs Cloud Services, you need to use personal access keys. Please refer to the Quick Start guide.

Generate DOCX document in cURL

The following code example shows how to generate DOCX reports using cURL.