Prefixed numbered paragraphs

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Hello

I need to generate numbered paragraphs with several Heading styles with normal and custom prefixes and cross references, like:
2. Flow of events
2.1. Basic flow
2.2.1 Step 1
2.2.1 Step 2 [FA1]
2.2 Alternative flows

FA1. Include entity
This flows starts when…

  1. The system shows…
  2. The actor…

FA2. Change entity
This flows starts when…

  1. The system shows…
  2. The actor…[FE1]
    2.2 Exception flows

FE1. File not found
At the step 2 of FA2, …

  1. The system
  2. …

I couldn’t find a way to generate headings like FA1, FA2 that can be updated by Word. I’m depending just on this to buy a license.

2

Hi

Thanks for your request. You can use ListLevel.NumberFormat to specify custom number’s format:
https://reference.aspose.com/words/java/com.aspose.words/ListLevel
For example, see the following code:

Document doc = new Document();
// Create a list based on one of the Microsoft Word list templates.
List list = doc.getLists().add(ListTemplate.NUMBER_DEFAULT);
// Completely customize one list level.
ListLevel level1 = list.getListLevels().get(0);
level1.setNumberStyle(NumberStyle.ARABIC);
level1.setNumberFormat("\u0000.");
// Completely customize yet another list level.
ListLevel level2 = list.getListLevels().get(1);
level2.setNumberStyle(NumberStyle.ARABIC);
level2.setNumberFormat("FA\u0001.");
// Now add some text that uses the list that we created.
// It does not matter when to customize the list - before or after adding the paragraphs.
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.getListFormat().setList(list);
builder.writeln("The quick brown fox...");
builder.writeln("The quick brown fox...");
builder.getListFormat().listIndent();
builder.writeln("jumped over the lazy dog.");
builder.writeln("jumped over the lazy dog.");
builder.getListFormat().listOutdent();
builder.writeln("The quick brown fox...");
builder.getListFormat().removeNumbers();
doc.save("C:\\Temp\\out.doc");

Hope this helps. Please let me know if you need more information, I will be glad to help you.
Best regards,

3

Thank you for the quick response, and sorry for asking something that is documented.