Table cell formating is overwritten when inserting text with Matlab Report Generator

Hi,

I have the following problem. I have a Word template, which I want to fill out with Matlab Report Generator. I got basic text insertion working with the dom api (moveToNextHole) and the reporter api (customizeReport and fill). However, both methods yield the same problem.

My template is kind of a form, where the layout is created with an invisible table (table with no border). I placed "Holes" inside the corresponding table cells where my data should go. But if I insert the text via the api, the corresponding cells alwalys get a solid black border in the output file. I could not find any hint in the documentation regarding tables in the template, only how to programmatically create tables from scratch with the api. Do you have any advice how to fix this issue?

Regards

Answer 1

[Githin George]

Hi Dominik,

I understand you are able to obtain data to be placed in the generated report but unable to configure the styling as required.

I’ve found a way by which I can use just one ‘hole’ in the word template to create a table, provided the data for the table is available. The default styling is an invisible table with ‘no border’ as you expect. Please see the code given below

import mlreportgen.dom.*; 
doc = Document('Report', 'docx', 'YourTemplate'); 

% Moving to the hole that should contain the data 
holeId = moveToNextHole(doc);  
% Example Data 
tableData = cell2table({"cell11" "cell12"; "cell21" "cell 22"}) 

% Generating Table into the report 
tObj = Table(tableData); 
append(doc,tObj); 

You can also refer to the documentation to see more styling properties for Table function: https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.dom.table-class.html?s_tid=doc_ta

The following technical article also provides working example for the same.

https://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/generating-custom-reports-with-matlab-report-generator.html

I hope it helps.