CustomDocumentProperties Cannot Be Resolved or It Is Not a Field

Aspose.Words Product Family
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I have the import com.aspose.words.* in my Java class and successfully created an instance of the Document; but I soon ran into a syntax error. This is a code snippet:

Document wordMeasurementSummaryReport = new Document(); // no problem
wordMeasurementSummaryReport.removeAllChildren(); // no problem
Date now = new Date(); // no problem
wordMeasurementSummaryReport.CustomDocumentProperties.Add( "Creation Date", now );

The fourth line (right above) gives a syntax error:

wordMeasurementSummaryReport.CustomDocumentProperties cannot be resolved or is not a field. What is wrong with that statement?

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You just need to use getCustomDocumentProperties instead. Please refer to API reference if you have any syntax problems. For example in this case you can check the Document class description:
https://reference.aspose.com/words/java/com.aspose.words/Document

Best regards,

3

I have followed your recommendation and modified my Aspose Words statement in my Java class accordingly; however, I am still getting the same syntax error: wordMeasurementSummaryReport.getCustomDomumentProperties cannot be resolved or is not a field.

wordMeasurementSummaryReport.getCustomDocumentProperties.Add( "Creation Date", now );
4

Hi,

getCustomDocumentProperties is a method so you should call it with parentheses, i.e. getCustomDocumentProperties().