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.
