Report only showing names of the objects instead of their content

Hello everyone!

I have a code generating a full report. But now the word file only gives me the name of the objects in the report and not the actual content like this:

Do anyone know where does this problem comes from?

My code is

rpt = Document('Report','docx');
%% title page generation
tp = TitlePage;
tp.Title = 'Report';
tp.Subtitle = 'This report is generated from the test.';
tp.Author = 'Jack'
append(rpt, tp);
%% Summary 
ChapterRegression = Chapter;
ChapterRegression.Title = 'Summary';
append(rpt, ChapterRegression)
close(rpt)

My dotx template just have one Rich Text Content Control hole.

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

[Rahul Singhal]

You can not add Report API objects like TitlePage to a DOM Document. Use mlreportgen.report.Report instead of the DOM Document. You can add both DOM and Report API objects to a Report object.

[Jack Arnoldi]

Thank you that is what I thought. I was using Report until now that I may need a template. So I don't really understand how you use a template with Report as the moveToNextHole doesn't work with a Report object.

I also wanted to work with CurrentPageLayout.PageSize (to try to make the page A3 instead of A4) and it appears to not be available with Report.

Do you know where I can find this info?

[Rahul Singhal]

The Report object has an underlying DOM Document object that can be used for such operations. See https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.report.report-class.html#d117e139133

[Jack Arnoldi]

I am sorry to bother.. but it is not explained how I should use this. For example

moveToNextHole(rpt.Document);
or
rpt.Document.CurrentPageLayout;

will give me an error, and I can't find anything about working with "underlying object" in Matlab...

[Rahul Singhal]

I tried with the sample code below:

import mlreportgen.report.*
import mlreportgen.dom.*

% Create a report with custom template with a hole in it.
rpt = Report('output', 'pdf', 'myTemplate.pdftx');
open(rpt);

% Get the underlying DOM Document object and update the page size
doc = rpt.Document;
doc.CurrentPageLayout.PageSize.Height = '16in';
doc.CurrentPageLayout.PageSize.Width = '11in';

% Move to the custom hole and add content to it
doc.moveToNextHole();
add(rpt, Paragraph("Content to go in custom hole"));

% Close and view the report
close(rpt);
rptview(rpt);

If you are still getting an error, can you please share the error message.