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I have a requirement where end user will upload a document in one of the task an
riyazs
over 9 years ago
I have a requirement where end user will upload a document in one of the task and I have to display content present in that word document in a dashboard (document consists of both text and images)
Is it possible?
If so could you suggest me with the approach.
Thanks
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Mike Schmitt
Certified Lead Developer
over 9 years ago
I don't know of any OOB functionality that would do this, outside of manually pulling the contents from the docx (zip) file and undergoing the incredibly complex process of manually parsing the document.xml file (which defines the basic word document, including formatting, tables, etc). I would suggest searching around various plug-ins to see if there's anything that comes close.
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PhilB
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over 9 years ago
I think the short answer is "No". What is the reason for uploading the document? Is there another format you can use? Maybe the data and images could be entered in a screen rather than the word document?
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ChristineH
Certified Lead Developer
over 9 years ago
Not an elegant solution, but a while back on a project, when a document was uploaded we used a custom plugin to loop through the pages of the document and convert them to images. Then each page was an image that we could show on the record dashboard. Not elegant, high in CPU usage, custom plugin.
So, I guess what I am saying is it is possible, but not advised.
What is the use case reasoning? could there maybe be an alternate solution?
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sassanm
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over 9 years ago
Hi Christineh. That is exactly what I want to implement. Can you tell me the plugin name?
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ChristineH
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over 9 years ago
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