Serial letter with neo4j and MS Word

[janezic]

Good Morning,

How could I use a neo4j-DB as a source for a serial letter created with MS Word?

THX and best regards,

Joachim

[florent_biville]

Could you elaborate a little bit?
What is a serial letter?
What are you trying to achieve?

[janezic]

Hello,

Sending a series of letters based on a database-query (e.g. invoices). I‘m not sure if „serial letter“ is the correct English term...

Thank you,

Joachim

[florent_biville]

You mentioned MS Word in the initial description. The invoices you mentioned are MS Word documents?
Do you want to store the document contents to Neo4j?

[janezic]

Not exactly. The data for the invoices will be drawn out of a neo4j-database, but the documents (invoices are just an example) are created with MS Word. The MS Word-file contains placeholders where the properties of the nodes shall be displayed accordingly (for a SQL-DB, this would be the content of a table or the result of a query).

[florent_biville]

I see. How can we help here?

[janezic]

Is there some kind of interface for that? Of course, there is the option to export data to csv and to import it into MS Word, but this seems rather . Any other solution?

[florent_biville]

@janezic Unfortunately, I do not see any option to directly export to a Word Document with any available APOC export procedures.
The best I can think would be to create a Cypher extension, integrating Apache POI? This could make a nice addition to APOC.