Help Needed Cloning Tables into existing single Table Cell

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Hi,
I need help cloning existing tables (OffenseHeader.docx and OffenseDetail.docx) a variable number of times (1 to n) into a specific cell of an existing table (OffenseTab.docx) with the result of the entire operation expected to look like OffenseTabResult.docx.
I would also like to control the row lengths of all the rows in the subtable.

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Hi Douglas,

Thanks for your inquiry.

Aspose.Words provides functionality for easy copying and moving fragments between Microsoft Word documents. This is known as ‘importing nodes’. Before you can insert a fragment from one document into another, you need to ‘import’ it. Importing creates a deep clone of the original node, ready to be inserted into the destination document. Please use the following code to achieve this:

Document docOffenseHeader = new Document(@"C:\temp\OffenseHeader.docx");
Document docOffenseDetail = new Document(@"C:\temp\OffenseDetail.docx");
Document doc = new Document(@"C:\temp\OffenseTab.docx");
Table tab1 = docOffenseHeader.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0];
Table tab2 = docOffenseDetail.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0];
NodeImporter importer1 = new NodeImporter(docOffenseHeader, doc, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
NodeImporter importer2 = new NodeImporter(docOffenseDetail, doc, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
Node dstNode1 = importer1.ImportNode(tab1, true);
Node dstNode2 = importer2.ImportNode(tab2, true);
Cell targetCell = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0].FirstRow.Cells[1];
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode1);
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode2);
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode1.Clone(true));
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode2.Clone(true));
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode1.Clone(true));
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode2.Clone(true));
doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\more\out.docx");

I hope, this helps.

Best regards,

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Awais,
Thanks for your help, this is what I needed!
Doug

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Hi Doug,

Thanks for your feedback. Please let us know any time you have any further queries. We are always glad to help you.

Best regards,

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Hi Awais,
I ran into a problem when the number of tables I was cloning into the cell gets longer than what will fit on a page.
In the attached example, I have added 8 offenses which results in 16 tables getting inserted into the cell. The table content is confirmed when I use the Document Explorer. In the attached file, you will see that when I open the file or try to print it, the data gets cut off after the 6th offense.
Can you please help with a technique to get the table to split and span pages when too long for a single page?
Regards, Doug

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Hi Doug,

Thanks for your inquiry. Sure, you can specify true to RowFormat.AllowBreakAcrossPages property and allow the text in a table row to split across a page. Here is the code:

Document docOffenseHeader = new Document(@"C:\temp\OffenseHeader.docx");
Document docOffenseDetail = new Document(@"C:\temp\OffenseDetail.docx");
Document doc = new Document(@"C:\temp\OffenseTab.docx");
Table tab1 = docOffenseHeader.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0];
Table tab2 = docOffenseDetail.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0];
NodeImporter importer1 = new NodeImporter(docOffenseHeader, doc, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
NodeImporter importer2 = new NodeImporter(docOffenseDetail, doc, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
Node dstNode1 = importer1.ImportNode(tab1, true);
Node dstNode2 = importer2.ImportNode(tab2, true);
Cell targetCell = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0].FirstRow.Cells[1];

targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode1);
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode2);

targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode1.Clone(true));
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode2.Clone(true));
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode1.Clone(true));
targetCell.AppendChild(dstNode2.Clone(true));

targetCell.ParentRow.RowFormat.AllowBreakAcrossPages = true;

doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.docx");

I hope, this helps.

Best regards,

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Hi Awais,
I ran into a problem with the text orientation changing when I saved the document as a PDF. I added this statement to my program

doc.Save("C:\temp\OffenseTabResult.pdf", SaveFormat.Pdf)

and found that the orientation of the text in Cell 1 of the first row changed from the document saved as a docx or printed. Please see attached .pdf file.
This behavior only appears when the table spans to the next page. The text prints and saves as a .pdf just fine when it does not span.
Doug

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Hi Doug,

Thanks for your inquiry.

While using the latest version of Aspose.Words i.e. 13.2.0, I managed to reproduce this issue on my side. I have logged this issue in our bug tracking system. The issue ID is WORDSNET-8042. Your request has also been linked to this issue and you will be notified as soon as it is resolved.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best regards,