In this brief demo, we'll walk you through inserting a watermark into a Word document using OfficeWriter in SharePoint. This is accomplished by creating a custom workflow action that pulls data from SharePoint and executes OfficeWriter document processing commands.
The need to get business data from a SQL Server database (or any other kind of RDBMS for that matter) into Excel for further analysis is universal. I would venture to say that anyone in any business role from marketer to analyst to salesperson to executive to program manager has had the occasion to say: "I need this data in Excel so that I can crunch it!"
Since getting data into Excel is a common requirement, it stands to reason that there are several different ways to accomplish the task. For simple, non-stylized, or purely tabular data imports...
To many of you, the name Andrew Brust might ring a bell. After all, this is a man who's been working with, shaping and talking about Microsoft technologies for twenty...
In this demo, we'll walk you through doing a mail merge inside of SharePoint using OfficeWriter. This is accomplished by creating a custom action that pulls data from SharePoint and combines it with a Word template stored in a document library.