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Hi,
I am trying to generate a word document using "MS Word 2007 Doc from Template".
The element which I am passing to a process model is having data like "Test & 1234". When I try to generate the document with this value, it is throwing an error when I try to open the generated document.
Where as if I updated the value with "Test1234" and generate the document, I was able to open the word document without any issues.
Any advises please.
Let me know if you want any further details.
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The Word from Template smart service does not sanitize passed-in text, meaning some of the special characters used in WordML (the special XML flavor used in the back-end in word documents) will cause the document to "break" if passed in un-sanitized.
Do I need to use any kind of functions to avoid this issue. Please advise.
You beat me to it, lol - yes, a long time ago I developed the following expression rule that all un-sanitized text should be passed through when using this smart service. Note this is only really needed when the incoming text will be variable (i.e. where there's a possibility that special characters will sneak in). This is what I still use now.
/* Expression Rule i.e. APP_UTIL_sanitizeTextForWordDocx */ a!localVariables( local!characters: { "&", ">", "<", char(10), char(13) }, /* the ordering of these is important. */ local!replacements: { tohtml("&"), tohtml(">"), tohtml("<"), </w:t><w:br/> <w:t>, /* inserts a Word linebreak */ "" }, reduce( fn!substitute, trim(ri!input), a!forEach( local!characters, { fv!item, local!replacements[fv!index] } ) ) )