Hi, in your example Word Template, "Test_Template - 2.docx" you have a "VendorDetailRow" content control that spans all the columns.  How did you do that?  I need to be able to do that in many templates.  I'll be building lots of tables.

Thanks.  BTW, great tool!

Thanks Kahanu. I was finding very hard to have a rich text control that spans all the columns with out this tool. I used "Open Xml Package editor power tool for Visual Studio 2010". The download location is http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/450a00e3-5a7d-4776-be2c-8aa8cec2a75b.  After this tool is installed drag a Word document on Visual Studio and it will open the package. 

Open document.xml node. Do a [Ctrl + K + D] so that Xml gets formatted. Wrap the table row inside the content control as displayed below

	<w:sdt>
            <w:sdtPr>
              <w:alias w:val="Vendor Detail"/>
              <w:tag w:val="VendorDetailRow"/>
              <w:id w:val="-1995484328"/>
              <w:placeholder>
                <w:docPart w:val="84B549EBC817423DB384C8816A38D0E0"/>
              </w:placeholder>
            </w:sdtPr>
            <w:sdtEndPr/>
            <w:sdtContent>
              <w:tr w:rsidR="004C78EB" w:rsidTr="008F578D">
                <w:tc>
                  <w:tcPr>
                    <w:tcW w:w="4788" w:type="dxa"/>
                  </w:tcPr>
                  <w:p w:rsidR="004C78EB" w:rsidRPr="0079049E" w:rsidRDefault="00AB6969" w:rsidP="008F578D">
                    <w:sdt>
                      <w:sdtPr>
                        <w:alias w:val="Vendor ID"/>
                        <w:tag w:val="VendorId"/>
                        <w:id w:val="-1348856374"/>
                        <w:placeholder>
                          <w:docPart w:val="4561E24F1E34488FAA44A2E6AB6DF29D"/>
                        </w:placeholder>
                        <w:showingPlcHdr/>
                        <w:text/>
                      </w:sdtPr>
                      <w:sdtEndPr/>
                      <w:sdtContent>
                        <w:r w:rsidR="00AA2CB2" w:rsidRPr="004E36F4">
                          <w:t>Click here to enter text.</w:t>
                        </w:r>
                      </w:sdtContent>
                    </w:sdt>
                  </w:p>
                </w:tc>
                <w:tc>
                  <w:tcPr>
                    <w:tcW w:w="4788" w:type="dxa"/>
                  </w:tcPr>
                  <w:p w:rsidR="004C78EB" w:rsidRPr="0079049E" w:rsidRDefault="00AB6969" w:rsidP="008F578D">
                    <w:sdt>
                      <w:sdtPr>
                        <w:alias w:val="Vendor Name"/>
                        <w:tag w:val="VendorName"/>
                        <w:id w:val="-216660976"/>
                        <w:placeholder>
                          <w:docPart w:val="E4BC115C38114FACBB074DD303396937"/>
                        </w:placeholder>
                        <w:showingPlcHdr/>
                        <w:text/>
                      </w:sdtPr>
                      <w:sdtEndPr/>
                      <w:sdtContent>
                        <w:r w:rsidR="00324673" w:rsidRPr="004E36F4">
                          <w:t>Click here to enter text.</w:t>
                        </w:r>
                      </w:sdtContent>
                    </w:sdt>
                  </w:p>
                </w:tc>
              </w:tr>
            </w:sdtContent>
          </w:sdt>

In order to cross validate open the document inside "Open Xml 2.0 Productivity tool". Inside the table this content control will be of type "SdtRow" now. The same thing can be done for a cell and in that case the type will be "SdtCell". 

Let me know if further information is required. Thanks.

Regards,

Atul

Atul, I'll give that a try.  I'll let you know if I have any problems.  So far, with my testing, I've been building test generator classes super fast (for non-recursive results) using your excellent tool.  And it just works!

Thanks a bunch.

King Wilder

Atul, the format and order of elements in the table row are in a different arrangement than in the original table.  Is this something that I need to do also?  Example, the "tc" table cells are in a different place than in the original.

This looks like a job for a custom tool.  :^)

Ok, I modified the source xml and it worked!  For tables that have 6 columns or more, this is a lot of work.  Any chance of a tool to be written to help automate this? I'll see if I can write one.

Otherwise, it builds the table with data perfectly!

Yeah, I agree that in order to have a SdtRow or SdtCell content control some times it's very hard to do though Word. What I do is create a table with required columns, rows. Then add a rich text control to the document to wrap the complete row. If it doesn't work as desired, open the document in Visual Studio and manually edit as mentioned above. I'd see if there is a better way to achieve this functionality.

Regards,

Atul

What I do:

1) Enable "developer tab" in Word:

   - Word 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYi9zNlzrOc

   - Word 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC0x61tphQM

2) Create a table.

3) First, insert non-recursive content controls: Inside the content row, for each cell, insert "Text Control" (Aa black icon in developer tab). e.g. "Vendor id" and "Vendor name". Click "Properties" icon in developer tab to edit the control properties (name and tag);

3) After, insert recursive content control: select (with the mouse) non-recursive controls and click "Rich Text Control" (Aa blue icon in developer tab). So, the non-recursive controls will be inside the recursive content control. Click properties icon to edit tag and name (e.g. VendorDetailRow). Click "Design Mode" icon in developer tab to view the relationship between content controls .

Regards,

Jorge

jwcspb wrote:

What I do:

1) Enable "developer tab" in Word:

   - Word 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYi9zNlzrOc

   - Word 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC0x61tphQM

2) Create a table.

3) First, insert non-recursive content controls: Inside the content row, for each cell, insert "Text Control" (Aa black icon in developer tab). e.g. "Vendor id" and "Vendor name". Click "Properties" icon in developer tab to edit the control properties (name and tag);

3) After, insert recursive content control: select (with the mouse) non-recursive controls and click "Rich Text Control" (Aa blue icon in developer tab). So, the non-recursive controls will be inside the recursive content control. Click properties icon to edit tag and name (e.g. VendorDetailRow). Click "Design Mode" icon in developer tab to view the relationship between content controls .

Regards,

Jorge

Jorge, thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't work for me.  I get a message saying, "Rich Text controls cannot be inserted around multiple selections".  Maybe I'm doing it wrong but there was no way of selecting more than one non-recursive content control.

For now I'll stick with Atul's method.  It's a lot of work, but it does work.

BTW, I do have the Developer Tab enabled and can use all the controls inside.

Try to select the entire line and click "Rich Text Control" (Aa blue icon in developer tab)".

Jorge

I prefer the approach mentioned by Jorge, however at times Word doesn't nest the controls as desired. Hence the second approach i.e. editing the Word Package from with in Visual Studio in conjunction with "Open Xml 2.0 Productivity too". 

Regards,

Atul

jwcspb wrote:

Try to select the entire line and click "Rich Text Control" (Aa blue icon in developer tab)".

Jorge

Jorge,

Yes, I tried that, and that's when I get that error message saying that it's not allowed.

King Wilder

atul_nith wrote:

I prefer the approach mentioned by Jorge, however at times Word doesn't nest the controls as desired. Hence the second approach i.e. editing the Word Package from with in Visual Studio in conjunction with "Open Xml 2.0 Productivity too". 

 

Regards,

Atul

Yes, that would be the easy way if it worked, but for me it doesn't.

I'm on a brand new Windows 7 Ultimate machine (not even 30 days old), with Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business, so I don't know why I can't do what you suggest.

King

I ended up writing a little console app that does this for me.  It kind of works, but I haven't completely tested it.  It works off of an xml file where you define the columns of the table and it creates the entire table and drops it into a single content control on your page.

It will then create the header row and the data row with the row wrapped in a content control and each cell contains a named content control.  It's intended to use with Atul's WordDocumentGenerator, so for now it's just targeted for that usage only.

I want to put it up here on CodePlex, but it's not ready for primetime and I would need some more expert eyes to look at it and collaborate before I feel it's ready for the public.

Are you guys interested in looking at this?  If so, what is the best thing for me to do with this?

King