FillIn fields

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1

Please, could you inform me of how to use FillIn fields when merging?

While merging, Aspose doesnt ask for the input of the fillin fields? Does an event handle these fields?

{ FILLIN "My question" \* MERGEFORMAT }

Kind regards,
Jan.

2

Hi Jan,

Thanks for your inquiry. FILLIN field is not a merge field that is why Aspose.Words mail merge engine skips it. However, you can try using the FieldFillIn class to assign values to different attributes of FILLIN field. I hope, this helps.

Best regards,

3

Is some example code of this FieldFillIn class available?

Kind regards,
Jan Stolk.

4

Hi Jan,

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

Document doc = new Document(MyDir + @"in.docx");
// Get paragraph you want to append this FieldFillIn field to
Paragraph para = (Paragraph)doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Paragraph, true)[0];
// We want to insert a FieldFillIn field like this:
// { FILLIN Test1 \\d Test2 \\o }
// Create instance of FieldFillIn class and lets build the above field code
FieldFillIn field = (FieldFillIn)para.AppendField(FieldType.FieldFillIn, false);
// { FILLIN Test1 }
field.PromptText = "Test1";
// { FILLIN Test1 \\d Test2 }
field.DefaultResponse = "Test2";
// { FILLIN Test1 \\d Test2 \\o }
field.PromptOnceOnMailMerge = true; 
doc.Save(MyDir + @"out.docx");

I hope, this helps.

Best regards,

5

Hi, thank you for your reply. However, i was referring to a document that has already been made in MS-Word. It contains merge fields and also fill-in fields. So my question is how to make your mailmerge prompt for these fill-in fields.

Kind regards,
Jan Stolk.

6

Hi Jan,

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

Document doc = new Document(MyDir + @"in.docx");
doc.FieldOptions.UserPromptRespondent = new HandlePrompts();
doc.UpdateFields();
doc.Save(MyDir + @"out.docx");

public class HandlePrompts : IFieldUserPromptRespondent
{
    public string Respond(string promptText, string defaultResponse)
    {
        // User response (i.e. confirmed value contained in the prompt window).
        return "value";
    }
}

I hope, this helps.

Best regards,

7

Thank you for your reply, this may very well be what i was looking for.

Kind regards,
Jan.

8

Thank you for your reply, this is exactly what i was looking for.

Kind regards,
Jan.