Carbone Roadmap 🚂

[steevepay]

Hello everyone,

I would like to share the roadmap for CarboneJS and the team's thoughts for the future! 🚀
First of all, thanks to the Github community for contributing and spreading the project.
Carbone has been created for an internal project and we decided to open source it because of the increasing demand. We are glad to see a lot of you liked it! 💕A lot of evolutions, features, and issues are coming from the community in addition to the Carbone Team and we will consider every request.
There is only one main goal: to keep Carbone to be the fastest and easiest report generator 🔥

Roadmap 🚂

The following list will be updated along with newly published releases.

• Fix PDF conversion tests on Windows [Bug Report]: Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked after PDF conversion #101
• Fix ODT to HTML conversion with images [Bug Report]: Template Images are not embedding in Html file while conversion #100
• Fix multi-directional loops TypeError: Cannot read property 'position' of undefined (Bi-directional loop) #45 [Bug Report]: Repetitions do not work for table columns #64
• Fix double quotes (deleting spaces) [Bug Report]: formatter result delete spaces #59
• Evolution error management: print errors/warnings when markers are missing Added error management #7 [Feature Request]: API that returns the list of all the "data paths"/"variables" used in order to validate the template #68 [Bug Report]: When you have over 2 levels of inner tables in your template you are no longer able to use tokens outside of the most inner table #54 Loving Carbone so far. Is there any way to limit which substitutions take place? Aka, only replace specific {d.value} elements. #27
• Fix XLSX support [Bug Report]: Excel template, empty cells/rows get removed #86 Pivot table in .xlsx and .ods file corrupts output file #48 [Bug Report]: Invalid merged row position in XLSX files #90 [Feature Request]: Enable Excel functions on templates #102 [Feature Request]: Adjusting formulas for repeated lines #109
• [EE] XLSX support dynamic colors bindColor cell example #51
• [EE] support dynamic charts in ODT and DOCX [Bug Report]: pie chart in docx template after data replace cannot be displayed normally. #110
• benchmarks
• Create a contribution guide

Done

• Fix formatD Warning date input to string conversion cause a moment js deprecation warning #85
• Feature dynamic hyperlinks [Feature Request]: Add support for hyperlinks #53
• accepts PDF & Adobe Indesign IDML as template
• Feature: add dynamic colors for ODS files and fix DOCX/ODT bugs
• Update the documentation
• Format numbers as number for XLSX and ODS files Question on converting string into numeric format #13
• Publish Carbone examples with specific use case
• Golang/Python/Node SDK
• Feature: use markers into formatters, example: {d.fruit:isEqual(apple, {d.successMessage})} [Feature Request]: Two or more variables inside formatters call #65 Dynamic variables in key names #40
• Fix [Bug Report]: Image replacement with docx #57 In Conditioned output, the characters after comma is not getting printed on the document. #44 Conditional Rendering in Array #76
• 2.0.0 release: synchronize our private branch with the Github branch. Next changes and features will be pushed on the open-source version to avoid branch differences.

[HeyItsJs]

Hey guys, just found this tool a couple of days ago and it felt as if all my prayers were answered!! 😍 Couldn't thank you guys more!

A humble request though. Can we prioritize XLSX support before everything else and release it earlier as compared to other features? Most of the business application users are comfortable working with Excel. Hence I believe it will be beneficial to everyone.

Also, the date of this roadmap issue worries me a little. Is there an active contribution going on it?

[steevepay]

Hello @HeyItsJs,

just found this tool a couple of days ago and it felt as if all my prayers were answered!! 😍 Couldn't thank you guys more!

You are welcome!!

A humble request though. Can we prioritize XLSX support before everything else and release it earlier as compared to other features? Most of the business application users are comfortable working with Excel. Hence I believe it will be beneficial to everyone.

Our next priority is to upgrade the error management, print accurate and relevant messages to make the design process smooth when a language typo occurs. Though I consider your request, and XLSX support improvement will come after the error upgrades. However, a solution is available for you: Design ODS templates and export with Carbone as an XLSX document.

Also, the date of this roadmap issue worries me a little. Is there an active contribution going on it?

Since the creation of the CarboneIO organization a few months ago, we have had a lot of administration and legal stuff to complete. In the meantime, we made many contributions to the Carbone Enterprise edition as the same as Carbone Community Edition. Updates are coming and I am going to update the roadmap pretty soon ;)
To get the latest news, latest work, or experimentations from the team, feel free to follow us on Twitter.

Have a great day and enjoy creating with Carbone!! 🎉

[LDami]

Hello,

There is no code changes for at least one year, is this project still maintained?

[steevepay]

Hello @LDami,

Carbone is actively maintained.
The team is focused on the Enterprise version (Cloud API) in that way, we can continue the development and bring new features and fixes. We plan to publish a new version on Carbone Core (this repository) soon.

Follow the development on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carbone_io
The changelog: https://carbone.io/changelog.html

[graycrow]

Ok, I understand the concept of being behind by one major version and the reasons why you went that route. However, it seems that bugs are not fixed in the community version, is that true? For example, there are a few bug reports in this repository, but not a single code fix has been made in 10 months, while the Enterprise version gets patches several times a month. If possible, can someone explain why it's not as bad as I think it is? Thanks.

[dgrelaud]

@graycrow Yes, we know it's not ideal. If you have a blocking issue, feel free to contact us directly via the chat on our website. No salesmen, just techs like me. The chat is our main communication channel.

If you want to access all patches along with all v4 features, please use this Docker edition. It starts with all community features by default (no license) and is always up-to-date.

We primarily fix security issues in this v3 repository. Currently, our main focus is on Carbone v5. Everything takes time, and we have to prioritize what is going to bring the most value to everyone. We will do our best to clean up all issues in this repository when we will have more time (or more people), and when the v4 will be open sourced 🙏

[graycrow]

@dgrelaud, thanks for the clarification. In the meantime, my org has become a paying customer, so I'm using an Enterprise Edition now, so far everything is going well.