I was trying to change formfields to mergeFields. The problem was, how to set cursor near the formfield i am currently trying to change.
In help i found: Note that some bookmarks in the document are assigned to form fields. Moving to
such a bookmark and inserting text there inserts the text into the form field
code.
According to text found in help it can not be done but i still managed to do it with the following code:
dF = all form fields
builder.MoveToBookmark(dF[0].Name, false, false);
builder.InsertField(“MERGEFIELD " + dF[0].Name + @” * MERGEFORMAT", “a”);
doc.Range.FormFields.Remove(dF[0]);
is the code correct?
I would rather suggest using the following code:
string filename1 = Application.StartupPath + @"\TestReplaceFormFieldsWithMergeFields.doc";
string filename2 = Application.StartupPath + @"\TestReplaceFormFieldsWithMergeFields Out.doc";
Document doc = new Document(filename1);
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
// Collect all FormField names.
ArrayList formFieldNames = new ArrayList();
foreach (FormField formField in doc.Range.FormFields)
{
formFieldNames.Add(formField.Name);
}
// Iterate through all bookmarks
foreach (Bookmark bookmark in doc.Range.Bookmarks)
{
foreach (string formFieldName in formFieldNames)
{
// If bookmark corresponds to a FormField
if (bookmark.Name == formFieldName)
{
// Remove FormField and insert merge field with the same name instead.
doc.Range.FormFields.Remove(formFieldName);
builder.MoveToBookmark(bookmark.Name);
builder.InsertField("MERGEFIELD " + formFieldName + @" \* MERGEFORMAT", string.Format("«{0}»", formFieldName));
break;
}
}
}
// Remove bookmarks corresponding to former formfields (not (eally necessary, just for aesthetic purposes).
foreach (string formFieldName in formFieldNames)
{
doc.Range.Bookmarks[formFieldName].Remove();
}
// Save resulting document.
doc.Save(filename2);
// Open saved document in MS Word.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(filename2);
Best regards,
The code works fine, theresult is the same, when comparing with my old code (ok, i believe this code is better) but one problem still remains. Some formfields still don’t want to change. I noticed that if i open my template in word an then edit/goto/bookmarks, there are some bookmarks missing. There is a formfield but no bookmark with this name and this formfields are exactly those, which do not want to change to mergefield. If I double-click on each of those formfields and clik ok, then bookmark begins to exists.
any solution (i have too many documents to fix them manualy)?
Please provide the sample document. I will check what could be done.
I reduced size of the document. In this document the problem is with the PP_KRAJ and PP_POSTA. If you open the document, you will notice that there is no bookmark for them. If you try Edit/Goto/bookmark they are not listed. If you double-click on each of them and then clik ok, bookmark starts to exist.
The code for that one gets much trickier. Although there is little that Aspose.Words cannot handle.![Smile [:)]](/Community/emoticons/emotion-1.gif)
string filename1 = Application.StartupPath + @"NP3.dot";
string filename2 = Application.StartupPath + @"NP3 Out.dot";
Document doc = new Document(filename1);
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
// Collect all formfields.
ArrayList formFields = new ArrayList();
foreach (FormField formField in doc.Range.FormFields)
{
formFields.Add(formField);
}
// Iterate through formfield collection.
foreach (FormField formField in formFields)
{
Node node = formField;
while (node != null)
{
// seek field end for this formfield
if (node.NodeType == NodeType.FieldEnd)
{
// DocumentBuilder.InsertField method inserts field BEFORE the DocumentBuilder.CurrentNode.
// So to insert merge field field AFTER formfield we need inserting and moving to a dummy node (empty run).
// create dummy node
Run emptyRun = new Run(doc, "");
// insert it after formfield end
node.ParentNode.InsertAfter(emptyRun, node);
// position DocumentBuilder before dummy node.
builder.MoveTo(emptyRun);
// insert merge field
builder.InsertField("MERGEFIELD " + formField.Name + @" \* MERGEFORMAT", string.Format("«{0}»", formField.Name));
// remove dummy node as we don't need it anymore
emptyRun.Remove();
// remove formfield
doc.Range.FormFields.Remove(formField);
// remove bookmark for this formfield (if it exists)
if (doc.Range.Bookmarks[formField.Name] != null)
doc.Range.Bookmarks[formField.Name].Remove();
// exit while
break;
}
node = node.NextSibling;
}
}
// Save resulting document.
doc.Save(filename2);
// Open saved document in MS Word.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(filename2);
THANK YOU!!!