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In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate a Common List Image report in Presentation Document format based on the use case: Working with a Business Case.

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The code uses some of the objects defined in The Business Layer.

Please follow below steps to create Common List Template in MS PowerPoint 2013:

1. Create a new presentation slide.
2. Add two shapes to hold pictures and name.
3. Save your Document.

As a report developer, you are required to represent the information of the customers with the following key requirements:

• A report must show multiple customers’ picture and name.
• A report must be generated in the Presentation Document.

Warning

There is no way to use an image inside a foreach tag in Microsoft PowerPoint.

<<foreach [in customers]>><<[CustomerName]>>
<</foreach>>

Tip

For detailed technical information about syntax, expressions and report generation by the engine, please visit: Working with GroupDocs.Assembly Engine.

Please download the sample Common List document we created in this article:

• Common List.pptx

Warning

Use this template for DB, Dataset, JSON and XML examples also.

OpenDocument Presentation (ODP) is a presentation document format which can be used as an alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint Document (PPT/PPTX) formats. Since ODP is not a Microsoft Proprietary format, there are multiple software (including Microsoft Office and Apache OpenOffice) available to create, open, edit and save this format. For more information on the available software to work with ODP, please visit wikipedia article.

In this topic, we’ll not reinvent the wheel to recreate a template for generating a ‘Common List’ report in ODP format. Instead, we’ll save the existing template to ODP format using Microsoft Office. In order to achieve this; assuming you are using Microsoft Office 2010, please follow below steps:

1. Open existing template we created in previous topic.
2. Click “File” and select “Save As”.
3. Select “OpenDocument Text” from “Save As Type” dropdown.
4. Click “Save”.

• Common List_OpenDocument.odp (use same template for database, dataset, JSON and XML examples)

In order to check compatibility of ODP between Microsoft Office 2010 and Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2, we performed below tests:

• We opened the ODP template created through Microsoft Office 2010 in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2. The template opened successfully in Apache OpenOffice without any issues or formatting losses.

• We opened the ODP report generated through GroupDocs.Assembly in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2. The report opened successfully in Apache OpenOffice without any issues or formatting losses.