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Insert Combo Box 2007 in word document

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#1

Hi,

How to insert with Aspose.Words a combo Box 2007 in documents programmatically or find an existing combo Box to add items on it.

I could not find the formfields on the document Word 2007 using doc.Range.FormFields

Thank you

Kamel

#2

Hi Kamel,


Thanks for your inquiry. Placing form fields into the document via Aspose.Words is easy, Document Builder have special methods for inserting them. Please follow up the links to Insert / Extract form fields:

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/form-fields-in-aspose-words.html


Code snippet:

// Create document and DocumentBuilder<o:p></o:p>

Document doc = new Document();<o:p></o:p>

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

// Insert few form fields in to the docuemnt<o:p></o:p>

// insert text input<o:p></o:p>

builder.Write(“Name:\t”);<o:p></o:p>

builder.InsertTextInput(“name”, TextFormFieldType.Regular, “”, " ", 0);<o:p></o:p>

builder.Writeln();<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

// Insert combo box<o:p></o:p>

builder.Write(“Sex:\t”);<o:p></o:p>

builder.InsertComboBox(“sex”, new string[] { “male”, “female” }, 0);<o:p></o:p>

builder.Writeln();


#3

Hi Imran,

I'm looking for combo Box 2007, please open the attached document and try to insert a combo box like one of the already inserted manually combo box in the document or try to find them by using doc.Range.FormFields.

Thank you

Kamel

#4

Hi
Kamel,


Thanks for your inquiry. Actually the combo box in your Word document is represented by a Structured Document Tag (SDT). You can insert such SDT nodes in Word document by using the following code snippet:

Document
doc = new Document();

StructuredDocumentTag sdt = new StructuredDocumentTag(doc, SdtType.ComboBox, MarkupLevel.Block);

sdt.ListItems.Add(new SdtListItem(“Choose an item”, “-1”));
sdt.ListItems.Add(new SdtListItem(“Item 1”, “1”));
sdt.ListItems.Add(new SdtListItem(“Item 2”, “2”));

doc.FirstSection.Body.AppendChild(sdt);

doc.Save(@“c:\temp\out.docx”);

Moreover, I would suggest you please visit the following article for more details about SDT:
http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/aspose.words.markup.structureddocumenttag.html

I hope, this will help.

Best Regards,
#5

Hi Kamel,


Thanks for your inquiry. Please follow up the code snippet to insert or extract combo box.

Document doc = new Document();<o:p></o:p>

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.InsertComboBox("FirstName", new string[] { "Alex", "Den", "Ben" }, 0);

doc.Protect(ProtectionType.AllowOnlyFormFields);

doc.Save("d:/temp/comboout.doc");


Extract combo box as following:


Document doc = new Document("d:/temp/comboout.docx");

FormField field = doc.Range.FormFields[0];



Note: Attached Word document don't have form fields, anyhow there is a StructuredDocumentTag.


Document doc = new Document("d:/temp/InsertComboBox2007.docx");

StructuredDocumentTag tag = StructuredDocumentTag)doc.GetChild(NodeType.StructuredDocumentTag, 0, true);

// Get the text of the content control

string tagText = tag.ToTxt();


Hope this will help. In case of any ambiguity, please let mw know.