Hi All, We are generating a word doc from word template (and open off

rajat_marathe over 12 years ago

Hi All,

We are generating a word doc from word template (and open office .odt from .odt template) using the doc generation nodes. Now when we want to add rich text to this documents it fails.

The generated file is corrupt. I have given a rich text enabled paragraph and saving that in PV. ON next form I can display the text stored in PV as rich text but when I pass the same PV to document node and generate a document it fails.

Please suggest how to generate a document which can have rich text (multiple lines, bold , italics for few lines)

Thanks,
Rajat...

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0 Siva
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over 12 years ago

Hi, you can use RTF template(.rtf) instead of Open Office template. If you create RTF documents using the Text Doc from Template node, then those RTF files can be opened in Microsoft Word.
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0 shelzle over 12 years ago

I tried that also but failed. Are you using DOCX files? These are a zipped collection of XML and other files. Appian replaces the keys (###key###) in the XML directly with your rich text which is HTML formatted. By doing this the XML syntax breaks.

I turned of rich text in the forms and allowed the users to use line breaks to format their text. These line breaks are converted to <w:br /> using this expression

=substitute(tohtml(striphtml(substitute(ri!text, char(10), "**w:br**"))), "**w:br**", "<w:br />")
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0 peterh over 11 years ago

shelzle, did you ever find a solution for this? Our business is requesting it as well and we do a lot with docx templates.
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0 shelzle over 11 years ago

No, sorry. I think this is beyond Appian OOTB possibilities. Converting some wildly formatted HTML text to a valid DOCX is not that easy. Maybe you can develop a custom plugin that uses some libraries that are able to do that.
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