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#1

I want to generate a worddocument with the content of the fields in a sc-form
i.E I the have name, the adress etc in a form and want to make a Word document with the content of the fields in it.
I could prepare a word-template with bookmarks etc. and use it in combination with scriptcase.
Word should open with the filled fields on the right place and after that I start typing the content in the middle.

Question: What are steps to go…starting with the form in sc.

Can somebody help me?

Kind regards

Bert Steinebach

#2

[QUOTE=ctmservice;22497]I want to generate a worddocument with the content of the fields in a sc-form
i.E I the have name, the adress etc in a form and want to make a Word document with the content of the fields in it.
I could prepare a word-template with bookmarks etc. and use it in combination with scriptcase.
Word should open with the filled fields on the right place and after that I start typing the content in the middle.

Question: What are steps to go…starting with the form in sc.

Can somebody help me?

Kind regards

Bert Steinebach[/QUOTE]

Hi Bert,

I assume that you want to create a docx as this is a text word format. If not, you should create a rtf file which can be opened by MsWord. What I useually do is create a template file in RTF so that fonts etc. are all in place. Where I want to store the data I create a template variable, i.e. [%myname%] In some event I read the rtf and do a stringreplace of the templatevariable by my scriptcase variable. Then it’s done. Finally to download you need to create a blanc application so that you can set the correct output header so that word is opened. After generating the file you put the text in a global variable and call the blanc application to get it output as rtf.

#3

If you want to do that in word you could also install word on your server and control word via DOM.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee840137(v=office.12).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kw65a0we.aspx
http://ca3.php.net/com
http://webcheatsheet.com/php/create_word_excel_csv_files_with_php.php

Alternatively:
http://www.phpdocx.com/
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2631-PHP-Create-Microsoft-Word-document-without-COM-objects.html
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/8175-PHP-Create-Microsoft-Word-DocX-document-from-template.html

etc… there is a LOT of info on how to do that. Basically using COM makes working with word quite easy…

#4

Thanks for yours answers. (Albert and rr)
I will work on it and give a reply of the results on this forum.
Kind Regards Bert

#5

Hi Bert,
did you made something with WORD merge… finally ???
In past I did something similar using a Php Word library creating a library folder within SC project application folder…
Something like …/z_phpword_CG using then the command.
require_once ‘…/z_phpword_CG/PHPWord.php’;
Now I’m trying to use


as public library of SC. I installed it many times but when you run the app it has always issues.
I tried all possible combinations without success and so trying to update the project from 8 to 9.6 I had to recreate the old directory with old library I used many years ago.
Did you ever used the command like this ?
sc_include_library(“sys”, “Php_Word”, “PHPWORD/src/PhpWord/PhpWord.php”, true, true );