Prior to aspose.total purchase - questions about aspose.words

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

I have some questions about Aspose.Words.

Our current mechanism of replacing tags inside tables is presented below:

  1. Copy whole source table
  2. Replace common tags for whole table
  3. Copy second row for each data source records
  4. Replace tag for every data source record

I try to get similar functionality from Aspose, but I have some problems.

  1. Can I add a row to the existing table? I have a table in Word
    document and want to add a set of rows to it. I cannot find any way to do it
    I have writen:
public class AsposeWordgood
{
    protected Document document;
    protected DocumentBuilder documentBuilder;

    public AsposeWord()
    {
        // evaluation licence 
        string licenseFile = "\\Aspose.Word.lic";
        if (File.Exists(licenseFile))
        {
            // This shows how to license Aspose.Word, if you don't specify a license, 
            // Aspose.Word works in evaluation mode. 
            License license = new License();
            license.SetLicense(licenseFile);
        }
    }

    private void replaceTabelarTags()
    {
        // this tag is inside the Word table 
        string tag = "#CASE_PRODUCT_GROUP_NAME#";
        Regex regex = new Regex(tag);

        document.Range.Replace(regex, new
        ReplaceEvaluator(replaceTabelarTagsCase), false);

    }
    private ReplaceAction replaceTabelarTagsCase(object sender,
    ReplaceEvaluatorArgs e)
    {
        ReplaceAction ra = ReplaceAction.Replace;

        e.Replacement = "Test replace by ASPOSE";
        Table table = (Table)
        e.MatchNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.ParentNode;

        Row asposeRow = new Row(asposeDocument);

        Cell asposeCell0 = new Cell(asposeDocument);

        asposeCell0.CellFormat.Width = 150;

        asposeRow.Cells.Add(asposeCell0);

        Cell asposeCell1 = new Cell(asposeDocument);

        asposeCell1.CellFormat.Width = 150;

        asposeRow.Cells.Add(asposeCell1);

        table.Rows.Add(asposeRow);

        return ra;
    }
  1. I also try to copy whole table which contains given tag. The result
    document contains only source table
private ReplaceAction replaceTabelarTagsCase(object sender, ReplaceEvaluatorArgs e)
{
    ReplaceAction ra = ReplaceAction.Replace;

    e.Replacement = "Test replace by ASPOSE";
    Table table = (Table)
    e.MatchNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.ParentNode;

    document.FirstSection.Body.AppendChild(table);
}
  1. Can I copy a whole cell format? I try to copy table with DocumentBuilder methods: StartTable(), InsertCell(), EndRow(), EndTable() but the created table has different styles (cell width, row height, borders and cell text format). I cannot do this by:
documentBuilder.InsertCell(); 
documentBuilder.CellFormat = sourceTableCell.CellFormat;

because builder.CellFormat is read only.

I set some properties by:

documentBuilder.CellFormat.Width = sourceTableCell.CellFormat.Width; 
documentBuilder.CellFormat.Borders.LineWidth = sourceTableCell.CellFormat.Borders.LineWidth; 
documentBuilder.CellFormat.Borders.LineStyle = sourceTableCell.CellFormat.Borders.LineStyle;

but I can’t examine if I copy all source parameters.

  1. I try to change our tags (#TAG_NAME#) with merge fields and use
    MailMerge to replace tags with value, but if I use:
documentBuilder.InsertField("MERGEFIELD " + tagName + " \\* MERGEFORMAT", "");

the merge field is not shown in result Word document. I only insert the
merge field and not use a MailMerge() method.
Should the merge field be displayed in result document? I don’t know if
the merge field is added to Word document but invisible or the merge
field is not added.

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2

Hi
Thanks for your interest in Aspose.Words. I think that you can achieve this using aspose.Words.

  1. You can add new row to existing table. I think that you should clone last row and add this row to table. For example you can use the following code.
// Open document
Document doc = new Document(@"Test101\in.doc");
// Get table from document
Table myTable = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0];
// Add new row
myTable.Rows.Add(myTable.LastRow.Clone(true));
// Save document
doc.Save(@"Test101\out.doc");
  1. Here you should use Clone function too. See the following code.
// Open document
Document doc = new Document(@"Test101\in.doc");
// Get table from document
Table myTable = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0];
// Copy table
doc.FirstSection.Body.AppendChild(myTable.Clone(true));
// Save document
doc.Save(@"Test101\out.doc");
  1. Just clone the source cell.
  2. This occurs because you didn’t specify field value. Try using the following code.
builder.InsertField("MERGEFIELD myField", "«myField»");

Please ask if you would like to know anything else. I will be happy to help you.
Best regards.

3

Hi
Thanks for your reply - was very useful.

Could you clarify points 2 & 3 for me?

  1. Can I insert the ‘cloned’ table at any other place than the end of document? I want to insert table directly above or below the source table.

  2. Could you give me a code example? I create the table with documentBuilder.StartTable() and documentBuilder.EndTable(). Which method could I use to insert ‘cloned’ row or cell?

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Best Regards
Krzysztof Araszkiewicz
Software Developer

Chrome CRM, Gdynia

4

Hi
Thanks for your request.
2. Here is code example that shows how you can insert the cloned table at any location in the document.

Document doc = new Document(@"Test033\in.doc");
// Get table from document
Table myTable = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0];
// Insert cloned table directly below the source table
myTable.ParentNode.InsertAfter(myTable.Clone(true), myTable);
// Insert cloned table directly above the source table
myTable.ParentNode.InsertBefore(myTable.Clone(true), myTable);
// Also you can use DocumentBuilde.MoveTo___ methods to move cursor to any location in the document
// For example the following snippet insert cloned table at the begining of document
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.MoveToDocumentStart();
builder.CurrentParagraph.ParentNode.InsertBefore(myTable.Clone(true), builder.CurrentParagraph);
// Save output document
doc.Save(@"Test033\out.doc");
  1. Please see the following code snippet.
// Start new table
Table myNewTable = builder.StartTable();
// Insert cloned row into the table
myNewTable.Rows.Add(myTable.Rows[0].Clone(true));
// End table
builder.EndTable();

I hope this could help you.
Best regards.

5

Hi

I suppose that I have all needed information about Aspose.Words to improve my work.

Thank you for your answers.

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Best Regards
Krzysztof Araszkiewicz
Software Developer

Chrome CRM, Gdynia