Document Generation for Mendix

Content Type: Module
Categories: Import/Export

Overview

Do you want to use the best tool for layouts available for documents? The must-have solution for document generation within Mendix applications. Generate documents based on MS Word templates and export to Word, PDF, PDF/A, HTML and 20 other formats.

When to use it?

  • For documents with layouts like invoices and reports
  • If the standard Mendix document generation is not sufficient
  • If 5 to 10 times faster than the standard Mendix templates appeals to you
  • When users want to have control about the templates
  • Documents that have to be exported in multiple formats and have to be exactly the same
  • Your generated documents stay in your own environment
  • Security and encryption features for PDF available
  • Concatenate multiple MS Word documents

 

What does the “Document Generation for Mendix” Module contain?

  • Generate documents based on templates layouts in MS Word
  • Runtime configuration of the required data to fill the document
  • Supporting all features of MS Word like headers, footers, page numbers, index, charts etc.
  • Edit your template and save your template in your Mendix app with the Microsoft MS Word Add-in: https://appron.to/ms-word-add-in

 

For who:

  • End-users: Let users make and adjust their own templates
  • Application managers: If managing the templates is a task
  • Business Engineers: make complex documents fast and simple

 

Benefits:

  • Control: end-users can make and adjust templates easily
  • Precision: No CSS is needed for the layout of documents but effectively use MS Word with a 100% connection in exports to Docx, PDF and more
  • Faster: as a business engineer you can build a document template fast and simple. 

New update:

  • Easy access to generate documents for your customer
  • Easily ajustable via an API key
  • Normally, the API key gives the user the Word add-on to access to all the document templates in the application. It is possible to specify which templates are available per API-key

See full documentation document here: https://support.appronto.nl/en/support/solutions/folders/12000010213

 

Pricing Document Generation for Mendix

Document Generation for Mendix is the most effective, efficient and comprehensive solution which saves your Mendix developers a lot of time and provides you with great looking documents. The costs depend on a few factors like the amount of developers, locations and type of usage.

Any subscription includes:

  • Unlimited amount of templates
  • Unlimited amount of documents generated
  • Unlimited amount of business users

The subscription fee starts at € 1366,- euro / year. The fees are yearly and paid upfront, just like Mendix. For the fee we make sure the module stays up-to-date with the latest Mendix and Microsoft Word releases, we provide support and release new functionalities. We can also help you with setup support to help you implement the module (Intake - project onboarding & coaching). Please let us know if you would like us to provide set-up support. To get a quote for your situation, please get in touch with us at sales.as.nl@emixa.com

Support

If you have any issues, please reach out to our support team at mendix.support.as.nl@emixa.com

 

Documentation

Demo urlhttps://youtu.be/tKb-IubHN6A

See full documentation document here: https://support.appronto.nl/en/support/solutions/folders/12000010213

installation video: https://youtu.be/tKb-IubHN6A 

 

Dependencies:

  • Appronto Licenser
  • MxModelReflection
  • CommunityCommons 
    • Please note that if you use this module in Mendix 7.23.x and the newest community commons. You have to refresh the java action Base64DecodeToFile and leave the new parameter 'Encoding’ empty.

- Edit your template and save your template in your Mendix app with the Microsoft MS Word Add-in.

Limitations and licensing

Note: to run the module in the cloud you’ll need a license. In development on your local machine the module will run without license.

 

Document Generation for Mendix is the most effective, efficient and comprehensive solution which saves your Mendix developers a lot of time and provide you with great looking documents. The costs depend on a few factors like amount of developers, locations and type of usage. 

Any subscription includes:•    Unlimited amount of templates•    Unlimited amount of documents generated•    Unlimited amount of business users

The subscription fee starts at € 1366,- euro / year. The fees are yearly and paid upfront, just like Mendix. For the fee we make sure the module stays up-to-date with the latest Mendix and Microsoft Word releases, we provide support and release new functionalities. 

We can also help you with a set-up support to help you implement the module (Intake - project onboarding & coaching). Please let us know if you would like us to provide set-up support.

To get a quote for your situation, please contact us at sales.as.nl@emixa.com

 

tags: document, generation, documents, dcuments, docs, doc, pdfs, generaton, docx, word, Microsoft, MS, 

Releases

Version: 7.0.1
Framework Version: 9.18.0
Release Notes: Please clean up your userlib, documentgenerationformendix-1.0.0.jar is added This release is Mendix 10 compatible
Version: 7.0.0
Framework Version: 8.18.1
Release Notes: - API-keys In this new update it is possible to generate API-keys for specific document templates. This way you can create API-keys for customers where you only give them access to specific templates. When using the Word add-on, access is only granted to templates assigned to that API-key. For existing users of the module nothing changes, all generated keys in the past have access to all templates, just like it was. - Language- and region support improvements - Performance- and quality improvements
Version: 5.5.0
Framework Version: 7.23.10
Release Notes: We added a small feature to preserve styling or use different styles when concatenate (generated) MS Word documents and you can choose to concatenate the document as a new page or continuous. Set your parameters in the MergeInput object to use this feature!
Version: 5.4.0
Framework Version: 7.23.10
Release Notes: Release notes Document generation for Mendix 5.4.0: - New feature: Merge without configuration any list of objects with a MS Word document template, the fields you use in the template are the attributes of your entity. In this case you can use fields in multiple sections without the use of tables (start+end). Usefull when you have documents with multiple pages with sections, in landscape and/or portrait size. - New feature: Concatenate MS Word document with preserving the layout. You can stitch a list of multiple MS Word output documents to 1 document to the type of output of your choice. The tables of contents and dynamic fields will be updated before output. - Improvements: cleaned up some duplicate code
Version: 5.3.1
Framework Version: 7.23.10
Release Notes: Added the feature to make use of multiple sections and landscapes MS Word you provide. Re-use Containers and tables in these sections
Version: 5.2.1
Framework Version: 7.23.8
Release Notes: Important 5.2.1 upgrade notes: Because of renaming an entity it's important to preserve the data so: - Rename first TemplateType tot TemplateConfiguration - Do not run the model - Download new version Documentgeneration for Mendix - Update community commons if needed - Fix references to layouts and pages (APIKey and Templateconfiguration pages) or make Configuration XML exports and import them afterwards.
Version: 5.2.0
Framework Version: 7.23.8
Release Notes: Documentgeneration for Mendix release notes 5.2.0 Mendix 7.23.8: TemplateType has been renamed to TemplateConfiguration (check the warning for the page TemplateType_Overview_Administrator' no longer exists.) Error messages when interacting with the Microsoft MS Word Addon has been improved When using a lot of DocumentTemplates, Tables and Fields these are visible now (scrollable) Document styling is preserved when opening a DocumentTemplate from the add-on (new MS Word window opens) When changing TemplateConfigurations in the Mendix application, the changes will refresh within the addon (no restart of MS Word required anymore) When developing microflows for retrieving your data, you can refresh the modelreflection from the TemplateConfiguration edit page. (remarkt that the module System needs to be checked) After startup improved so the lognode DocumentGenerationForMendix can instant be set when debugging Warnings in Studio Pro have been cleaned up for the module Table of Contents is updated after merging the fields Images can have a dynamic hyperlink; fill in the Xpath to the URL attribute in the configuration UX of the pages have been improved Layout compatibility is improved; just set your correct layout in the Masterlayout in ApprontoLayoutBatchUpdateMe and ApprontoPopupLayoutBatchUpdateMe (batch update layout is also possible)
Version: 5.1.0
Framework Version: 7.23.8
Release Notes: - Compatible with Mendix 8 - Use the newest version of CommunityCommons and MxModelreflection
Version: 5.0.1
Framework Version: 7.2.0
Release Notes: Fixed scenario with template with empty or missing mergefields
Version: 5.0.0
Framework Version: 7.2.0
Release Notes: - Upgraded to 7.18.1 to make use of the native REST capabilities of the Mendix platform - Full compatibility with the MS Word Add-in from the Microsoft Office Appstore: https://appron.to/ms-word-add-in