Images in a grid [DOCX From Dynamic Template Smart Service]

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Hi, 
 We have a project requirement where we need to pass an array of images into a grid, each row with a different image. 
 The grid is already configured, but we can't seem to manage to pass dynamically an array of images into the grid - they are appear repeated across all rows and for each row, we want the image that corresponds to that row position. For row 1, we want image 1, for row 2, image 2... 
 Current output 
 
 Expected output 
 
 Currently, we are defining the barcode image column like this: 
 
 And the node is configured currently as:

My suspicion is that Appian can't iterate automatically throughout the array and position each image in each row but I'm not really sure how this can be achieved. 
 Kind regards

Acacio Barrado · Answer

Hi Marta , I came up with an idea, it is a solution but it is not scalable and perhaps will not suite to your case, but it is working as you expected. During the process to figuring out how to achieve your requirement I learned few things, for instance some of the FreeMarkers functions are not available to us, due the FreeMarker version that the plugin is using. I'm mentioning this because I was trying to use the index function, but as you can see in the documentation, the index was added to the FreeMarker in the version 2.3.23, but the current Freemarker version in the plugin is 2.3.20. So I had to use deprecated functions. Check the screenshot: So basically what I implemented relies in you know upfront the max number of images that you will possibly can have, the reason for that is because the Word has some kind of limitation, and in case you create more bookmarks than you have images it can be a problem. As I mentioned it is not a final solution, but it can definitely give you more ideas. Please find below the templates that I used in my tests. Input XML: DOCX template: Community Test With Images.docx Result document: This is a test doc.docx I hope that helps you some how. Regards Acacio B.

Images in a grid [DOCX From Dynamic Template Smart Service]

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