Add new INCLUDEPICTURE as result of MERGEFIELD

[mygreffe]

Hello,

I'm trying to add a new includepicture in the document as a result of a mergefield. to explain my idea :

Let's suppose that we have a document with the merge field

{MERGEFILED LOGO \* MERGEFORMAT }

and

LOGO = { INCLUDEPICTURE "c:/...logo.jpg" }

So I tried this :

LoadOptions options = new LoadOptions();

options.setLoadFormat(LoadFormat.DOCX);

options.setPreserveIncludePictureField(Boolean.TRUE);

Document document = new Document(templateInputStream, options );

FieldIncludePicture includePicture = new FieldIncludePicture();

includePicture.setSourceFullName("c:/...logo.jpg");

document.getMailMerge().execute(new String[]{"LOGO"},

new Object[]{includePicture });

but I'm having a null pointer exception :

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.aspose.words.Field.getStart(Unknown Source)

at com.aspose.words.Field.getType(Unknown Source)

at com.aspose.words.zz6M.(Unknown Source)

at com.aspose.words.Field.zz6P(Unknown Source)

at com.aspose.words.Field.zz6N(Unknown Source)

at com.aspose.words.Field.zz6w(Unknown Source)

at com.aspose.words.FieldIncludePicture.setSourceFullName(Unknown Source)

The problem is that in my word document, I'm having a mergefield that I must convert to includepicture without modifying the word template (I can't add mergefield with include picture in the word template).

Thank you for your help.

[awais.hafeez]

Hi,

Thanks for your inquiry. Please try using the following code:

Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + “input.docx”);

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// Insert a temporary Bookmark just before target mergefield
builder.moveToMergeField(“LOGO”, false, false);
BookmarkStart bmStart = builder.startBookmark(“LOGO”);
BookmarkEnd bmEnd = builder.endBookmark(“LOGO”);
// Get a handle to target mergefield
FieldMergeField mergeField = null;
for(Field field : doc.getRange().getFields()){
    if (field.getType() == FieldType.FIELD_MERGE_FIELD){
        if (((FieldMergeField)field).getFieldName().equals(“LOGO”)){
            mergeField = (FieldMergeField) field;
            break;
        }
    }
}

// Encapsulate mergefield within Bookmark
if (mergeField != null) {
    mergeField.getEnd().getParentNode().insertAfter(bmEnd, mergeField.getEnd());
}

// Perform mail merge
doc.getMailMerge().execute(new String[]{“LOGO”}, new Object[]{“D:\\Temp\\aspose.words.jpg”});

// Insert a new IncludePicture field just after Bookmark
builder.moveToBookmark(“LOGO”, false, true);
FieldIncludePicture includePicture = (FieldIncludePicture) builder.insertField(
        FieldType.FIELD_INCLUDE_PICTURE,
        false);
includePicture.setSourceFullName(doc.getRange().getBookmarks().get(“LOGO”).getText());
includePicture.update();

// Remove Bookmark’s content and Bookmark itself
doc.getRange().getBookmarks().get(“LOGO”).setText("");
doc.getRange().getBookmarks().get(“LOGO”).remove();

doc.save(getMyDir() + “awjava-16.1.0.docx”);

Hope, this helps.

Best regards,