Ovpms-1460 Docx Support

Submitted by Ben_Charlton on Sat, 18/10/2014 - 20:52

General developer's discussion

I saw this one sitting in the Jira to do list - and figured I would attack it while working on the jasperreport upgrade -

I have got a the system generating pdf's for docx files which was pretty quick, however I have run into a sticking point over userfield importing - the .doc implementation transposes for input fields easily but the userfields or mergefields are not being enumerated...I delved into the Uno library and did some digging, but I couldnt find any imformation to allow access to them.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26425234/extract-user-fields-and-inpu...

I posted the above on stack to get some help but unusually I am 72 hrs out with not so much as a "badly worded question jab"

At this stage I have a new msworddocumentx object which eventually handle the files, and once we have the userfields stuff we can then support docx as templates.

I also have a failing test constructed (and failing on userfield extraction) and a test documentx created from the existing test doc.

Finally, Is there interest in supporting spreadsheet templates or attachments? I would have thought not, but the implementation wouldnt take much.

Re: Ovpms-1460 Docx Support

Submitted by tanderson on Sat, 18/10/2014 - 23:33.

For .doc files, MERGEFIELDS are reported as supporting the com.sun.star.text.TextField.Database service. i.e.

XComponentLoader loader = //... bootstrap component loader

XComponent document = loader.loadComponentFromURL("private:stream", "_blank", 0, properties);
XTextFieldsSupplier supplier = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextFieldsSupplier.class, document);
XEnumerationAccess fields = supplier.getTextFields();
XEnumeration en = fields.createEnumeration();
while (en.hasMoreElements()) {
    Object field = en.nextElement();
    XServiceInfo info = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XServiceInfo.class, field);
    if (info != null && info.supportsService("com.sun.star.text.TextField.Database")) {
        // got a MERGEFIELD
    }
}

For .docx, are the MERGEFIELDS being reported as supporting a different service, or not listed at all?

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