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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • Nice!

    Secretary looks exactly like Docxtemplate, which I used on my homemade webpage. Maybe it’s a fork.

    It never was really user friendly so I am looking to replace it. That is also the main issue with your self build solution? Or are there other issues as well?

    Yes exactly. I need people to be able to use the tools easily and reliably and to be able to add templates themselves.

    Also, my main job is not developing tools and I can only do it on my spare time, so the fastest it is to implement the better.

    After a week to try, Airtable + Make seems to be the easiest. Airtable also offers to generate documents directly in it, but it lacks options.

    My main issue with a lot of tool (except Docxtemplate or similar) is to renders array of data. Most solution replace a {{tag}} with an info, but what I would need is a {{array[i]}} and to be able to generate different paragraphs.







  • Thank you !

    It’s pretty much the solution I already have: I generate a doc with DocxTemplate through a webpage made with Flask.

    What I’m looking for is a solution with a user-friendly pipeline that can be easily used by anyone once it’s set up

    Form > generate new entry in a db

    Entry > Select entry from tags > generate documents from template

    Airtable is already proposing something similar, which is why I’m currently trying it with zapier, Documint, and other automation solutions

    I’m looking for a self host solution but mostly a free and polished one