Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit

New Post: one value mapped to two fields

zkawalec — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:03:17 GMT

Hi!

Thanks for the tool, it is really great. I have got one issue, however, and I am not sure if I use it wrong, or there is a bug.

I have one value called DocumentVersion and I mapped it to two fields in the document (see attached screen). I wanted the document to update the second field automatically whenever the first is changed by the author. It works fine, the second field is automatically updated, but... after the second attempt. So, an author has to change the value, save the document, close it, open it, change the value again, save it. I guess, this is something to do with the fact that I mapped one value twice.

Can you advise, if there is a way to map one field twice and avoid the need of editing a document twice as well?

Thanks in advance,

Commented Feature: CustomXmlPart Incompatible with Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats

elsawood — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:39:44 GMT

In the Content Control Toolkit clicking "Create a new custom XML Part" creates a part with the path "customXml\item1" or similar.

Creating a CustomXmlPart using the Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats creates a part with the path "customXML\item" or similar. (Note the difference in case)

The effect of this is that custom XML parts added in the tool cannot be manipulated easily using the SDK.

i.e. MainDocumentPart.CustomXmlParts does not return the parts created by the Tool.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: elsawood **

Now I see the part. Please disregard my previous comment.

Commented Feature: CustomXmlPart Incompatible with Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats

elsawood — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:46:13 GMT

The SDK does not list the Custom XML part added with the toolkit when interrogating the document by using the following code:

WordprocessingDocument _report = WordprocessingDocument.Open(reportStream.File, false);
IEnumerable<CustomXmlPart> customXmlparts = _report.MainDocumentPart.CustomXmlParts;

The field customXmlparts does not list the custom XML added with the Toolkit.

Commented Issue: Lost links to content control fields

elsawood — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:33:41 GMT

I'm a Word user (not a programmer). I've been using the CCT for Word 2007 to link XML data from about a dozen separate files to several hundred content control fields in a Word 2007 document. I'm running into some bewildering (perhaps buggy?) behavior that seems related to saving the Word document from the CCT. Although the CCT interface still shows all the data links to the various content control fields, when I quit the CCT and open the Word document from Word 2007, only those fields most recently saved from the CCT are filled in. The rest have lost their former content. When I dig down into the XML content fields for the Word document itself (a tedious process!), I see that the links indeed appear to have been lost. My only theory about this at this point is that the tool (although displaying the links correctly in its interface), rewrites the entire Word document with only the newly added XML links, losing all the links added at earlier session(s). I don't know if this is by design, or a bug, or a flaw in the design of the CCT.

Has anyone encountered similar problems? Is there a solution? Workaround? Am I doing something wrong here to cause this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Comments: ** Comment from web user: elsawood **

I am having the same problem. I have bound this document twice already and the same thing happens. Very few controls remain bound, while the vast majority loose their dataBinding elements. What could be the problem?

Reviewed: CCT_1.3_ (May 07, 2009)

rlarno — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:23:12 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Excellent tool, the features and the code helped me to understand my own code. Even when I'm using the OpenFormat XML SDK 2.0 ps: this tool would benifit a lot from using the SDK, lots of code that can be removed. No more Xml mess. Thanks!

New Post: Rich Text Content control turns into a plain text content after association using Word 2007 content control toolkit.

pierreb — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:21:24 GMT

If have notice this in the source code

// Broken right now because of O12/663921

What does this mean please?

New Post: Rich Text Content control turns into a plain text content after association using Word 2007 content control toolkit.

pierreb — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:57:37 GMT

Rich Text Content control turns into a plain text content after association using Word 2007 content control toolkit.

Is this normal?

New Post: New projects created

djprice — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:30:13 GMT

I have created a Word 2007 dotm macro template in which I have mapped some content controls. My problem is that when I make an edit to my code in VBE and save the template in VBE many extra new projects are created. Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can prevent it?

New Post: What is the encoding on bound picture content controls?

shadesofjay — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:47:23 GMT

I'm trying to understand how picture content is encoded in XML parts for picture content controls. Is there any way to reference pictures in the OOXML package rather than encode the content directly in the custom xml part?

Created Issue: Windows OS version support?

BurtHarris — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:00:06 GMT

This may be a simply documentation issue. Currently the System Requirements section of the doc only mentions "XP SP2, Vista RC1 or later". I see no reason why this shouldn't include server & Win7 relases.

New Post: Binding DropDown List to element XML

gauravdhamija83 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:06:50 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for a similar solution. I want to attach a schema as a customXML Part in the document itself and use it to validate other customXML Part contents. Any help would be greatly apprecitated in this regard.

Thanks

Gaurav.

Reviewed: CCT_1.3_ (Jan 22, 2009)

macpinheiro — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:30:12 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Attended all my needs in a simple and visual way. Thanks

Closed Issue: Custom XML Parts pane doesn't expand as SplitView increases

mrscott — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:55:46 GMT

When you drag the seperator bar of the main SplitView control the Custom XML Parts pane doesn't expand to take up the new space, so you're left with a bind/edit view that's just as narrow and a bunch of empty grey space on the far right hand side.

Source code checked in, #44569

mrscott — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:55:45 GMT

Fixed #19636

Updated Release: CCT_1.3_ (Jul 06, 2007)

mrscott — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:24:26 GMT

This release focused on stabilization: bug fixes, performance tuning, and unit test building.

New features: #11202
Bug fixes: #11448, #11489, #11562

Sample documents that you can use with the toolkit to test simple and complex configurations of content controls bound to a custom xml document are now available. See samples.zip

Compatibility Summary: OS: Windows XP SP2, Vista | Office: 2007
For more system requirements and other useful information, download the documentation below.

Released: CCT_1.3_ (Jul 06, 2007)

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:24:26 GMT

Created Issue: Custom XML Parts pane doesn't expand as SplitView increases

935main — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:47:49 GMT

New Post: Failed to Save. Could not find the custom XML part to delete.

mrscott — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:45:46 GMT

Hi Fairorth

I wasn't able to reproduce this issue on my local test.

Here's exactly what I did:

1. Boot Word
2. Add 3 plain text content controls to the document body
3. Save the document
4. Close Word
5. Boot the Content Control Toolkit
6. Open the document
7. Create a new XML part
8. Change to Edit View and paste in the following XML:

<root>

P1.

</Paragraph1>

P2.

</Paragraph2>

P3.

</Paragraph3>

</root>

9. Click Bind View
10. Dragged each paragraph node to the corresponding content control to bind them
11. Save and close the toolkit
12. Boot Word and open the document
13. After verifying it wored, close the document and Word
14. Boot the toolkit, and reopened the document
15. Change the text of Paragraph2 to P2 - new
16. Clicked save.
17. Close the toolkit
18. Opened the document in Word to verify everything worked

Can you give me a detailed list of steps like I provided so I can debug this?

Thanks
Matt

New Post: Failed to Save. Could not find the custom XML part to delete.

fairorth — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:25:57 GMT

I created a docx file with content controls and mapped them using the toolkit. Worked great. Closed all files, reopen using toolkit and changes some of the text in one of the sections. Tried to save and got the error dialog "Failed to Save. Could not find the custom XML part to delete."

The xml I entered was very simple. The only change I made was to the <paragraph2> element, I changed the text from P2 to P2 - new.

<root>

P1.

</Paragraph1>

P2 - new

</Paragraph2>

P3.

</Paragraph3>

</root>

New Post: using context control to automatically change text

adamr_ZA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:20:04 GMT

Ok i am very new to this ... so excuse me if it is a silly question ...

Say in the cover sheet of my document i want to say something like "Proposal for :[insert company name here]" ... and i want to create a content control for that text "[insert company name here]" with the "title" set as "company_name"

somewhere further on in the document i want certain text fields (non-editable) to change automatically once the "[insert company name here]" is changed by the user on the cover sheet ...

Say text in the header of the document, which also shows "proposal for [insert compnay name here]" ... or as another example if the user chooses a certain author name from a drop down list, then that specific author's details like phone number and email address are automatically updated and shown in the document

How can i do this all this using content control etc??? ... i am totally new to this and searching for answers has resulted in nothing ...