Excel sheet to generate FLAT .json composition paths - useful or not?

I wanted a quick way to get a list of flat .json format composition paths which I usually did by sending the template to an EHRbase instance and getting an example composition.

I wondered if there was a way to do this:

  • Without a CDR,
  • even without a coding environment
  • in a format that could includes a little a bit more info on the template, and …
  • ..can be easily displayed to collaborators who may not be used to looking at .json files.

So.. let those who do not have Microsoft Excel installed cast the first stone! :grimacing:
(they may be right to cast it, I’m just not one of them)

After a bit of back and forth with gemini it spit out a powerquery that seems to work without making too much of a mess. It is just 78 lines of code and it also gets the node type, at codes and cardinalities.

I just spend half an hour on this and fully expect it to break with some other data types or template features that i have not yet tried out!
Before I spend even a minute more on it I just wanted to ask I’m the only one who thinks this may sometimes be useful?
Otherwise I’ll probably leave it be!

example result:

To use it you just need to enter the path to the web template .json in the source step. (Quelle = Source in German)

Can’t believe I just set up a Github repo for a silly little vibe-coded excel sheet!

Here is a pastebin of the powerquery code,
Again, this does not even cover all RM types, the point is just whether anyone would could imagine this becoming a useful little gimmick.