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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,

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?

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.

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 ...

New Post: Check box content control

rutaraj — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:52:34 GMT

Matt ,

I hope you are still accessing these posts. I am new to open xml format. I recently dowloaded the content cotrol tool kit. I have exact same problem with check box mentioned above. I watched your video but I didn't quite get your answer for the check box which you have posted. Will you able to elaborate a little bit. On how you can use combo box to make it checkbox. I have searched quite bit on internet for it. But couldn't get any answer to it. Any help from you will be really great.

thanks
Amrita

NEW POST: Mapping InfoPath Form Content to Word 2007 Doc

cbrown00 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:51:59 GMT

Novice here.

Can the Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit help me transfer data entered into an InfoPath 2007 form to a MS Word 2007 file? If so, can you summarize the steps? I have created some very complex InfoPath forms that do a good job of helping collect the data, but once collected, I would like to populate a variety of different MS Word files with different subsets of the form data. I really want to be able to locate specific data elements at specific points in my Word docs. I've activated the Developer tab in MS Word 2007, and used the Schema commands there to link the MS Word file to the appropriate XML doc files of the InfoPath form, but I don't get any data coming through into my MS Word doc. I don't want to have to re-key the information in my InfoPath form into Word. Hoping this tool can help!

Thanks.
Chris

NEW POST: Binding DropDown List to element XML

jgomezc — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:13:25 GMT

Hi again Matt:
I have other question, when i use a schema XML on a Word document, this schema is attached, not included. How I can introduce this schema on the document, as a customXML Part?
If the schema is attached, when the Word document is moved to other PC, also is needed move the schema.

Thanks again.
Please if you have time answerme.

Greettings
Jorge

NEW POST: Binding DropDown List to element XML

jgomezc — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:08:13 GMT

NEW POST: Binding DropDown List to element XML

jgomezc — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:27:17 GMT

Hello Matt:
Thanks very much for your great help.

NEW POST: Binding DropDown List to element XML

mrscott — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:59:09 GMT

Hi Jgomezc,

Just as you would any other control.

In Word
=====
1. From the Developers Tab in the Menu Ribbon, click the Content Control Drop Down item to insert it in the document
2. Select the control and go to it's properties, add some entries for the user to select
2. Save and exit

In the Content Control Toolkit
===================
1. Create an XML document if one does not already exist via the Edit View tab in the Custom XML Parts pane
2. In the Bind View of the pane, select the XML element and drag it onto the drop down control.
3. Save and Exit

============
Now back in Word, everytime the user selects an item via the drop down, the item is pushed and persisted in the XML store of the document.

> If you wish to have the items of the drop down bound to an XML document, the only way is to provide to an XML schema and have that node that is bound to the control be linked to a schema element that has an enumeration list. The enum items populate the control.

Thanks
Matt

NEW POST: Binding DropDown List to element XML

jgomezc — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:27:10 GMT

Please answer me

NEW POST: Binding DropDown List to element XML

jgomezc — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:30:09 GMT

Hello:
Please somebody can explain me how bind a content control dropdown list with a element XML on the Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit.
Thank very much.

NEW POST: Control Formatting

mrscott — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:30:22 GMT

My mistake! I did some testing but could not come up with a way to apply Sentence Case \ Title Case to a specific content control without it updating other controls, my guess is that such a function changes the actual text which directly updates the XML data store as opposed to a a style \ font which lives on the document surface.

NEW POST: Control Formatting

MGriffith — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:33:19 GMT

As indicated by the first post; the problem is NOT with the ALL CAPS functionality, but 'Sentence case' and 'Title Case'. Again, in writing complex word documents, and repeating content, it is a distinct requirement to be able to change the capitalization beyond just lowercase and ALL CAPS. Is there a way to change mapped content control items such that that one is lowercase, while the same mapped control is 'Sentence case' or 'Title Case' (otherwise called 'capitalize each word') in MS Word.

Ex.

lowercase: the frog is a small frog.

ALL CAPS: THE FROG IS A SMALL FROG.

Sentence case: The frog is a small frog.

Title Case: The Frog Is A Small Frog.

NEW POST: Control Formatting

mrscott — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:54:57 GMT

Hi MGriffith

I do not see the issue. I followed the following steps and noticed the following (inline):

1. Added 2 content controls to a new document
2. Mapped both content controls to the same XML node in the document data store
3. Selected one content control (clicked on the little grippy on the left hand side to select it)
4. Click Ctrl+D to open the Font menu
5. Checked the All caps option, clicked OK to close the dialog
6. Added the characters 'aaa' to the capitalized text inside the content control, clicked out to force an update
>> NOTICE: The uncapitalized text adds 'aaa' without capitilization
7. Added the characters 'bbb' to the uncapitalized text
>> NOTICE: the capitalized text adds 'BBB' to the end
8. Modified the XML store with 'ccc'
>> NOTICE: both controls are updated as expected 'CCC' and 'ccc'
9. Saved the document, reopened and performed 6-8. Results meet expectation.

Please let me know if you are reporting another issue.

Thanks
Matt

MGriffith wrote:
Is it possible to format a 'mapped' content control in Word to either sentence case or title case, without having the other 'mapped' controls throughout the document changing in tandem. One can change a control to lowercase and all CAPS by changing the font on the controls to 'All caps', or leaving it as default lowercase text, however if you use Word's font feature to change the case of a control (to sentence case, title case, etc.), it will change all corresponding mapped controls. In writing business documents, it's often necessary to have a repeated word typed in sentence case in one place in the document, title case in another, and lower case in another, CAPs in another, etc.. Does anyone know a workaround for this issue?