Advanced Document Templating

Question

How can I iterate the whole table for the requirement? How should the syntax be placed for Advanced Document templating plugin. I understand the code how we can loop through the rows in a grid but how can we loop the grid itself? eg: If I have 5 employees under Labor grid I want 5 different grids dynamically created based on syntax!

Shubham Aware · Answer

You cannot loop the grid itself; instead, build XML with repeated <employee> nodes using a!forEach and concat, then wrap the entire table inside a repeat block for each employee in your DOCX template so 5 employees produce 5 separate grids.

See this example

a!localVariables(
  local!labor: {
    a!map(name: "John", id: "101", role: "Developer"),
    a!map(name: "Mary", id: "102", role: "Tester"),
    a!map(
      name: "Sam",
      id: "103",
      role: "Business Analyst"
    )
  },
  concat(
    "<project>",
    "<labor>",
    joinarray(
      a!forEach(
        items: local!labor,
        expression: concat(
          "<employee>",
          "<name>",
          fv!item.name,
          "</name>",
          "<id>",
          fv!item.id,
          "</id>",
          "<role>",
          fv!item.role,
          "</role>",
          "</employee>"
        )
      ),
      ""
    ),
    "</labor>",
    "</project>"
  )
)