Multicolored Numbered List in Spreadsheet Document

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In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate a Multicolored Numbered List report in Spreadsheet 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.

Multicolored Numbered List in Microsoft Excel Document

Creating a Multicolored Numbered List

Practising the following steps you can create Multicolored Numbered List Template in MS Excel 2013.

  1. Add a new Workbook.
  2. In one cell, write a sentence like “We provide support for the following products:”.
  3. Select the cell, and assign a color by pressing “Cell Styles” in Styles group.
  4. Save the template.

Reporting Requirement

As a report developer, you are required to describe the services you are providing with the following key requirements:

  • The report must show the products in the numbered list.
  • It must highlight the products.
  • The report must be generated in the Spreadsheet Document.

Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine

 

Customer

Order Price

<<foreach [in orders]>><<if [Price >= 400]>><<[Customer.CustomerName]>>

<<[Price]>>

<<else>><<[Customer.CustomerName]>>

<<[Price]>><</if>><</foreach>>

Total:

<<[Sum(c => c.Price)]>>

 

 

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

Download Multicolored Numbered List Template

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

Generating The Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

Multicolored Numbered List in OpenOffice Spreadsheet Document

Creating the Template

OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) is a spreadsheet document format which can be used as an alternative to Microsoft Excel Document (XLS/XLSX) formats. Since ODS 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 ODS, please visit wikipedia article.

In this topic, we’ll not reinvent the wheel to recreate a template for generating an ‘Multicolored Numbered List’ report in ODS format. Instead, we’ll save the existing template to ODS 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 Spreadsheet” from “Save As Type” drop down.
  4. Click “Save”.

Download Template

Generating the Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

ODS Template and Report in Apache OpenOffice

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

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