Change the source of a chart

[onequestion]

Hey everyone,

my situation is the following: I've written a little Java program, which generates an Excel and a PowerPoint document. The PowerPoint document stores a lot of charts, all linked to the Excel document. But the path of this Excel doc isn't always the same (I don't overwrite them, they all come into another folder).
So I have to change the references of the charts. I thought, it would be easy, but I couldn't find any solution, how to solve this problem with docx4j.

I'm thankful for each suggestion.

[jason]

Sorry, its not entirely clear what you are asking.

Can you add some code + files as necessary so that it runs?

Note sure whether you've seen the following sample, or whether it helps at all... https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/ ... harts.java

[onequestion]

Hi jason, thanks for your reply.

Well, I used this example first, but it didn't solve my problem. I can directly change the values of the charts in the presentation, but this isn't my goal.
When you copy a chart from an Excel document into an PowerPoint document, you can link them. So if you change the values in Excel, the information in the presentation change,too.
In PowerPoint, you can change the source/path of the (Excel) data used for the chart in PowerPoint.
And ("only") this function - changing the path of the data used for the chart - I want to implement in my little program.
At the moment, there is no useful code, because I have no clue, how to address the 'change the path of the chart source' option.

I hope, I explain it understandable.
And sorry for my poor english.

[onequestion]

I think, there is a code, which might help to understand my problem better.
It is an extract from the example.

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   // The names of the parts which will be edited
// Alter these to match what is in your input pptx
// .. the chart
String chartPartName = "/ppt/charts/chart1.xml";
// .. the xlsx
String xlsPartName = "/ppt/embeddings/Microsoft_Excel_Sheet1.xlsx"; //this is the important line

When I create a PowerPoint only containing charts that are linked to a Excel document, I can't find the xlsx in the xml overview.
There is only the entry

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Target="file:///C:\Users\****\Desktop\example.xlsx"

Using this as xlsPartName and I'm getting the error "Absolute URI forbidden: file:///C:/Users/****/Desktop/example.xlsx"

Another thing I noticed: A PowerPoint with a default chart (not linked to an Excel Document) has additionally the line

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<Default Extension="xlsx" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet"/>

Maybe this helps..

[jason]

This little snippet:

Target="file:///C:\Users\****\Desktop\example.xlsx"

looks like part of a relationship with an external target.

In docx/pptx/xlsx, most rel targets are internal (ie included in the pptx), but some aren't (hyperlinks - usually, images - sometimes).

docx4j handles internal and external targets differently (since generally speaking it is only for internal ones in which there is a part to load - though for external images, we do make a part).

For internal targets, you'll have a part, so you can add one using addTargetPart(Part targetpart)

For external targets, docx4j's OpcPackage has:

HashMap<ExternalTarget, Part> getExternalResources()

See https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/ ... arget.java

RelationshipsPart's getPart(Relationship r ) does, for an external target:

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                        return getPackage().getExternalResources().get(
                                        new ExternalTarget( r.getTarget() ) );
 

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When a pptx is loaded, the following happens:

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                        // EXTERNAL                    
                        if (loadExternalTargets &&
                                        r.getType().equals( Namespaces.IMAGE ) ) {
                                        // It could instead be, for example, of type hyperlink,
                                        // and we don't want to try to fetch that
                                log.info("Loading external resource " + r.getTarget()
                                                   + " of type " + r.getType() );
                                BinaryPart bp = ExternalResourceUtils.getExternalResource(r.getTarget());
                                pkg.getExternalResources().put(bp.getExternalTarget(), bp);                    
                        } else {                               
                                log.info("Encountered (but not loading) external resource " + r.getTarget()
                                                   + " of type " + r.getType() );                              
                        }                                      
 

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It looks like that code could usefully be modified to handle the case where the pptx targets an external xlsx. Now tracking this at https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/issues/126

For your purposes though, you should be able to get the relevant Relationship object from the RelationshipsPart, and just invoke:

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    public void setTarget(String value) {
        this.target = value;
    }
 

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