How do i reopen a Report which is created with a word tamplate and fill specific holes

if app.Pushbutton.Value

import mlreportgen.dom.*;
D = mlreportgen.dom.Document("Report", "docx", "Report_Template.dotx"); % Template with Rich Text elements
                
open(D);

while ~strcmp(D.CurrentHoleId,'5')
   switch D.CurrentHoleId
       case '1'
          append(D, num2str(10));   % Example for Number value
        case '2'               
           append(D, num2str(12));
        case '3'               
           append(D, Text);
        case '4'     
           append(D, Text2);
   end
        moveToNextHole(D);
end
  
close(D);
end

Unable to resolve the name 'app.Pushbutton.Value'.

%% It works well up to here

if app.Pushbutton2.Value

import mlreportgen.dom.*;

    open(D);

    while true
        if strcmp(D.CurrentHoleId, '5')
            break;
        end
        moveToNextHole(D);
    end
    
    while ~strcmp(D.CurrentHoleId, '7')
       switch D.CurrentHoleId
          case '5'               
            append(D, Text3);
          case '6'               
            append(D, Text4);
       end
       moveToNextHole(D);
    end
    close(D);
end

Hello,

i use appDesigner and i want to add content to a report, which is created with a word template. The content should be added when you press a pushbutton in app designer. So in the Template are rich text elements with sequential numbers from 1 to in this case 7 (CurrentHoleId s). My code works fine until i want to reopen it. First i tryed to not closing it until the next pushbutton request but that didnt work.

How can i solve this problem? Thank you.

Best Regards

Lukas Rackl

[Tiffany]

What error message do you encounter when running the second part of your code?

[Lukas]

By "open(D);" is the Error Code: Unrecognized function or variable 'D'.

[Tiffany]

For the line "import mlreportgen.dom.*;" you may want to add this to your startupFcn callback so that it executes after component creation. I'm not exactly sure on where you are placing these if statements in your App Designer code, but if they are in different callback functions the if statement in the second block of code doesn't have access to the variable "D". If this is the case, you will need to create a private property to store the variable "D" and its value to use throughout the app. I hope this helps!

[Lukas]

Adding the variable "D" to the private property doesnt work either for the open(D) and close(D) per Callback function. In this case i get the following error message:

Error using mlreportgen.dom.Document/open

"Unable to reopen a closed document or document part."

But it does work with not closing the Document between the if-functions of the different pushbutton callback functions. So thank you for your tipp.

[Tiffany]

Hi Lukas,

According to the MathWorks Documentation for close, "Once a document is closed, you can no longer append content to it. Closing the document outputs any remaining content, such as remaining template text." This is the reason why you encounter an error message when trying to use open on a closed document. Here is the documentation link for "close": https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.dom.document.close.html.