I really like the new Reporting Extension. However am I missing a write to Word (.doc, docx, or Libre Office) node? BIRT had this possibility.
Writing to html and PDF is great, however sometimes a report should be editable as it is not a final version yet. And Word would be the standard for such documents.
If not, I’d like to suggest a Word Writer node.
Of course the formatting would be an issue, however there are Continentals’ XLS Formatter Nodes, which are amazing. Something similar for Word would be amazing to get your formatting right (Headings, Fonts, etc).
Just another idea: maybe a Markdown Writer would be another option? Markdown could be opened and read by Word and LibreOffice and is also a basis for html and others. So a more robust version of an editable text format.
@Awiener This idea is great. In fact, in many places, I directly use markdown to record the results of KNIME.
In case some people don’t know, pandas can output markdown, and I usually use it along with some logic to output the final markdown.
I would love this as well. As well as a Word reader for simplicity sake. I have used some macro OS hacks to copy and paste text or convert file types, but they aren’t portable and are vulnerable to OS updates.
It converts varying types of documents into markdown and it does so very good (it is even managing to describe PowerPoint Diagrams created with Smart Art accurately without the need to send an image to an LLM).
Currently trying to integrate this into my AI extension as I think in the context of preparing data for RAG this is a game changer - it’s running in Dev Mode but having issues with the build (thats what below topic is about):
I think for advanced users that can set up their own Python envs this might be a need way to get word docs etc. into KNIME easily.
better / any support for
.odt and .ods (open document text and spreadsheet)
would be much more appropriate and welcomed given the nature of open source and interoperability.
It is absolutely considered and the more votes it gets the more it will be considered
That being said, we are currently focusing on a different area which will likely keep us busy till at least end of year. We plan to revisit the reporting framework and data apps in general next year.
I will make sure that we consider a docx export when we come to it, but I can’t promise that it will make it in. That depends on how complex the solution would be and how well suited our current reporting is for that.
I need a Word Writer Node and am wondering why it was removed from Modern UI. I have an ongoing issue, unrelated to Knime, with opening pdfs and have thought a lot of having word versions of my reports available. Even if it is just a node that will render content into an image that gets embedded into a word document, that would be fine.
