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Chicago Code Camp Leverage OOXML for Powerful Document Generation
1. Leverage Open XML To Write Powerful Document Generation Applications Tim Murphy Technical Specialist
2. Agenda Review Of Document Generation What Is Open XML How The SDK Tool Are Critical Challenges of Word with OOXML Challenges of PowerPoint with OOXML Generating Word Documents
6. How The SDK Tools Are Critical Thank you Document Reflector The OpenXml Diff tool increases productivity Document Validator OOXML Documentation
7. General Challenges With Document Generation Uniquely Identify Object Good end user experience Consistent naming
8. Challenges of Word with OOXML Identifying text in charts Existing CustomXml functionality being removed Different containers for the same object types depending on conditions
9. Marking Up Word Documents Content Controls Good UI experience Can‘t name from a list
10. Marking Up Word Documents CustomXml Controls Flexible and multiple uses No UI support in 2010
11. Challenges of PowerPoint w/ OOXML Naming slide objects Naming slides Identifying text Position based organization Different containers for each object
OOXMl is still pretty new in terms of standards and implementations, but there are some success stories at this point.One of those is Research Director, Inc. out of Annapolis, MD. RDI is a radio research firm that produces presentations and documents for their customers, the radio stations. These are data heavy, very intensive presentation files – over 440 slides with 372 charts and tables. They were producing 200 presentations 4 times a year in a semi automatic process. In 2009, the frequency more than doubled and the amount of data drasticly increased. By building a system that utilizes MS SQL Server, a custom .NET application, and OOXML to generate the PPTX files.Look at the numbers … 1600 hours to 33 hours. This saved 1+ FTE and allowed RDI to meet their deadlines