Generate Your First Document

In this sample, I will show you how to use MaltReport to generate your very first document.

Steps

Step 1: Organize your data into Context

var employees = new Employee[]
{
    new Employee{ Name = "Micheal Scott", JobTitle = "Branch Manager" },
    new Employee{ Name = "Pam Beesly", JobTitle = "Office Administrator" },
    new Employee{ Name = "Jim Halpert", JobTitle = "Salesman" },
    new Employee{ Name = "Dwight Schrute", JobTitle = "Salesman" },
    new Employee{ Name = "Andy Bernard", JobTitle = "Salesman" },
};

var image = new ImageBlob("jpeg", File.ReadAllBytes("Image.jpeg"));

var data = new Dictionary<string, object>()
{
    { "employees", employees },
    { "image", image },
};

var context = new TemplateContext(data);

Step 2: Prepare your template

Step 3: Load & render your template

using (var stream = File.OpenRead("EmployeesTemplate.odt"))
{
    var odt = OdfDocument.Load(stream);
    var template = new OdtTemplate(odt);

    var result = template.Render(context);

    var desktopDir = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
    var outputFile = Path.Combine(desktopDir, "generated.odt");
    result.Save(outputFile);
}

Step 4: Check the generated document out: