Common Document Generation Service
Natural Resource Sector
The Common Document Generation Service allows you to create consistent office documents using structured data. It’s like mail-merge for your line of business application. Automatically create documents, presentations or spreadsheets. Whether you need 5 documents or 5000, this service is ideal for creating form letters, invoices, reports and so much more.
The service works with Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as LibreOffice or OpenOffice. You can choose formats from a rich library of templates. Create custom documents with your own charts, images, logos and fonts.
Use the Common Document Generation Service to:
• Create custom letters to clients, including detailed information related to their files
• Create requests for proposals and related standard-form contracts
• Generate monthly reports by automatically inserting data into documents
Why should I use this
Ease of use
The Common Document Generation Service has been developed and tested to make it easy to integrate with your line of business systems. You use familiar office programs to create and edit files while the service is managed centrally to ensure an efficient, reliable process.
A library of file formats
A library of file formats including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF is available for you to jumpstart creation of custom reports, requests for information and many other documents.
Open Source
The component is available as a hosted service or the source code can also be incorporated into your own application.
About this component
Price
Free
The Natural Resource Sector Common Services Showcase team offers comprehensive documentation and support Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm on through:Service level support
Capabilities The API can generate any PDF or XML-based documents such as docx, xlsx, pptx, odt, ods, odp, and html. Examples of XML-based editors include Microsoft Office™, LibreOffice™ or OpenOffice™. The CDOGS API can do the following: UsageAdditional technical information
The Common Document Generation Service is available for free to ministry teams.Requirements and restrictions
Getting started
The Common Document Generation Service is available as a REST web service, you can download the code to incorporate into your own application, or you can use a Docker image.
https://bcgov.github.io/common-service-showcase/services/cdogs.html
Support
For information about onboarding to CDOGS or other common services, review the onboarding documentation.