Error in Report Generator

Good morning,

i help a friend with his masterthesis and he is using the report generator with a word template to make his results visible (Matlab 2020a).

he create a word template (vorlage.dotx) which is stored in the same order than the programm. we used the following code

    import mlreportgen.dom.*;
    
    rtp = Document('Report','pdf','template.dotx');
    
    open(rtp);

and got this error

    Error using mlreportgen.dom.Document/open
    Invalid template: template.dotx

Do you have any idea, where the problem is?

[Walter Roberson]

You said the template was vorlage.dotx but the code is trying to read from template.dotx

[Jana Pecke]

oh sorry, we changed the name afterwards...

rtp = Document('Report','pdf','vorlage.dotx');
    
    open(rtp);
Error using mlreportgen.dom.Document/open
Invalid template: vorlage.dotx

Answer 1

[Rahul Singhal]

Hi Jana,

From your Document creation command, it looks like you are trying to generate a PDF report using a DOCX template, which is invalid. A DOCX template can only be used to create DOCX reports. This DOCX report can be later converted to PDF report using rptview. To directly generate a PDF report, I would suggest to create a PDF template, which is similar to an HTML template but with extension .pdftx. This link can be helpful in creating templates for different report types: https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/report-templates.html

Thanks,

Rahul