Extracting Form drop-down information

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Help please

I am currently running an evaluation version of Aspose (Java) and it seems to perform all the functions I require. However, I am experiencing a parsing problem that I cannot solve.

The Word document I am processing contains both FieldTypes of FIELD_FORM_TEXT_INPUT & FIELD_FORM_DROP_DOWN. Either through parsing all nodes, selecting bookmarks, or iterating through the FormFields (FormFieldCollection) extracted as document.getRange().getFormFields(), I still cannot get at the drop-down information (either the item selected or the 1…n elements in the range).

So for the FIELD_FORM_TEXT_INPUT element, the getName() returns a FORMTEXT value, & the getText() or toTxt() methods return the value.

But for the FIELD_FORM_DROP_DOWN element, the getName() returns a FORMDROPDOWN

value, & the getText() or toTxt() methods nothing. Either the escape chars for the getText() or a 0 length string for the toTxt() method.

Any help would be most appreciated as this will be critical as to whether we purchase Aspose or not.

Stressed Tweety.

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Hi
Thanks for your request. You should use getResult() method to get the selected value:
https://reference.aspose.com/words/java/com.aspose.words/formfield/#getResult
Hope this helps.
Best regards,

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Ah…didn’t see that method.
Alexey, you’re a dood, thanks very much.