Question about generating a Word document from a template in Appian. 1. We

nechamaz over 8 years ago

Question about generating a Word document from a template in Appian.
1. We have a use case where we would like to embed another document within the word document. We have the embedded document as a bytestream, is there any way to embed it like that?

2. Is there any way to loop in the template? If I have an array of students, and I want a word table with name, age, grade etc. can I indicate that this is an array to be looped over?

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0 peterf over 8 years ago

You can use the docxncolumntable function supplied with the Dynamic Document Generator function to build your student table
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0 peterf over 8 years ago

That should read "Dynamic Document Generator plugin" which of course is available under the Shared Components tab under Records
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0 nechamaz over 8 years ago

Does that handle word templates? The documentation just says word from html or combining multiple word documents.
Does it handle embedded documents?
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0 Rahul Gundu over 8 years ago

Ans for 2nd question. There is a plug-in called "MS Word 2007 Doc from Template", which is used to generate documents based on template. Using Open Office XML, we can loop a word table. We need to loop the code in a rule, and pass the OOXML code to document, it will render the table.
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0 sikhivahans over 8 years ago

@nechamaz As suggested in the earlier post of yours, I would like to suggest you to opt for 'Advanced Document Templating' plugin. This should serve the purpose of your second question, and coming to the first question, I would like to suggest to explore the same plugin.
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0 peterf over 8 years ago

Answer to your question "Does that handle Word templates" is yes, that is what we use it for, in conjunction with the OTB Word Doc From Template smart service. I Understand 'Advanced Document Templating' is a more recent alternative and possibly more powerful so if you are doing this for the first time you should examine that option first.
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0 mathieud over 8 years ago

1. Not possible AFAIK.
2. Yes it is possible to do some looping/tables with the Advanced Document Templating plugin: forum.appian.com/.../summary
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0 nechamaz over 8 years ago

Thanks! The Advanced Document Templating plugin seems ideal, but we are currently running 7.5. Is there any solution for Appian 7.5?
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