Prototype for list item 'Department, From, To, Count' not found
I can't create list in document MS Word. Please, help me. How create list in MS Word?
ListContent departments = new ListContent("Departments"); foreach (Department item in Conclusion.Departments) { departments.AddItem( new FieldContent("Department", item.Name), new FieldContent("From", item.From.ToShortDateString()), new FieldContent("To", item.To.ToShortDateString()), new FieldContent("Count", item.CountDays.ToString()) ); }
In MS Word - http://www.imageup.ru/img88/2701576/image1.png.html

Hello,

I have a word document that contains multiple tables generated by the engine. When i insert a new table between 2 existing table ( more precisely, i add a new paragraph, in this new paragraph i add a new table generated by the engine) when i generate the new word document, all tables the first row. I add a simple example to reproduce the issue. The sample define 2 templates : Test1 contains only 2 table. Test2 contains a third table between the two table. You'll notice that the generated word based on Test2 template contains duplicate rows.
TemplateDocx.zip

V3013 It is odd that the body of ‘RepeatContentConstructorWithNameAndEnumerableFieldContent_FillsNameAndItems’ function is fully equivalent to the body of ‘RepeatContentConstructorWithNameAndEnumerableListItemContent_FillsNameAndItems’ function. RepeatContentTests.cs

V3013 It is odd that the body of ‘ListContentConstructorWithNameAndEnumerableFieldContent_FillsNameAndItems’ function is fully equivalent to the body of ‘ListContentConstructorWithNameAndEnumerableListItemContent_FillsNameAndItems’ function. ListContentTests.cs

Word error message when opening (in russian):

Template: HiddenRepeatReproTemplate.docx

Repro:

using System;
using System.IO;
using TemplateEngine.Docx;

namespace HiddenRepeatRepro
{
	static class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			string templateFile = "HiddenRepeatReproTemplate.docx";
			string outputFile = "HiddenRepeatRepro.docx";

			File.Delete(outputFile);
			File.Copy(templateFile, outputFile);

			var repeat = new RepeatContent("repeat1")
				.AddItem(new FieldContent("val", "123"))
				.AddItem(new FieldContent("val", "456"));

			repeat.Hide(); // breaks document

			var table = new TableContent("table1")
				.AddRow(repeat);

			var content = new Content(table);

			using (var template = new TemplateProcessor(outputFile).SetRemoveContentControls(true))
			{
				template.FillContent(content);
				template.SaveChanges();
			}
		}
	}
}

I was following your first example of filling in a table with few rows and one total row at the end. I wasn't able to make the total row show any data - it was black after processing. Then I decided to check your own example code. Here is extract of the code I am following as example and which I tested:

...
// Add table.
new TableContent("Team Members Table")
.AddRow(
new FieldContent("Name", "Eric"),
new FieldContent("Role", "Program Manager"))
.AddRow(
new FieldContent("Name", "Bob"),
new FieldContent("Role", "Developer")),
// Add field inside table that not to propagate.
new FieldContent("Count", "2"),
...

The example above was failing too - to fill in the total row.
Here what the final table looks like (note I can paste here the table content only):

Name Role
Eric Program Manager
Bob Developer
Total members

As you can see the Total row looks like:

Total members

but should look like:

Total 2 members

So I believe that I am following the example correctly and there is a bug when filling in the content.

Hi, I looked at the example in the repository, and certainly don't understand how to create wrapper around table. I know about the Content Controls and Design Mode. But I can't figure out which kind of control is used for table. Probably that's why data can't be render in the word document. Below is the picture about which control I am asking for.

Sorry for annoying question.

Do we have some way (exception, API field) to identify fields, that are missing in the data?

Скажите пожалуйста, как можно реализовать заполнение таблицы значениями из базы данных? В таблицу записывается только одно значение из базы, а не все.
Пробую сделать так -

var appVal= from value in db.ApplicantValues where value.ApplicantId == 21 select value.Value;
foreach (var v in appVal.ToList())
                {
                    var valuesToFill = new Content(
                    
                    new TableContent("table")
                    .AddRow(
                        new FieldContent("value", v)
                        )

                    );

                   
                        using (var outputDocument = new TemplateProcessor(Server.MapPath("Test.docx"))
                                    .SetRemoveContentControls(false))
                        {
                            outputDocument.FillContent(valuesToFill);
                            outputDocument.SaveChanges();
                        }
                    

                }

Either RepeatContent doesn't work, or I have the wrong idea about how to use it. I have created a very simple docx (in Word 2013) containing a single repeating section with Title and Tag both set to "TestRepeater." The content of the repeating section is a single text field named/tagged "TestField" followed by a carriage return. When I try to fill it with two lines of content using code like below, I end up with a "Field content for field '' not found" error message in the output, and the repeating section remains unfilled and is not removed, but is duplicated.

var valuesToFill = new Content(
    new RepeatContent("TestRepeater")
        .AddItem(new FieldContent("TestField", "value 1"))
        .AddItem(new FieldContent("Testfield", "value 2")));

using (var outputDocument = new TemplateProcessor(@"f:\RepeatContentTest.docx")
    .SetRemoveContentControls(true))
{
    outputDocument
        .FillContent(valuesToFill)
        .SaveChanges();
}

What I really want is a repeating section with a header field and a table inside, so that I can generate a series of (an unknown number of) tables with each table bearing a title. But until I have a repeating section working, I don't see how to proceed.

RepeatingSectionTest.docx

i'm create word document by template
template contains table and list (and some other text data). the table contains several repeated rows.
table:

Header1 | value1
Header2 | value2
Header3 | value3

list:
1. value

which must translate into:
table:

Header1| row1-value1
Header2| row1-value2
Header3| row1-value3
------------------------
Header1| row2-value1
Header2| row2-value2
Header3| row2-value3
------------------------
...

(yes, in table header places in first column, but not row)

list:

1.value 1
2.value 2
3.value 3
...

all work fine, except one small things - if table or list does not contains any row in result document i see template data...
how i can remove this data from result document if repeated data are empty?

Hi,
Your library looks cool!
However, I need to be able to replace images in my templates.
Any support for picture content controls?

Thanks,
Ozzy

Exception locate is file RepeatProcessor.cs, line 105 (code: contentControl.DescendantsAndSelf(W.sdt).Remove();)

Error message: The parent is missing

Input file: InputTemplate.docx

Programm code:

using System.IO;
using TemplateEngine.Docx;

namespace ConsoleApp1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            File.Delete("OutputDocument.docx");
            File.Copy("InputTemplate.docx", "OutputDocument.docx");

            var valuesToFill = new Content(
                new RepeatContent("RepeatParentContent")
                    .AddItem(
                        new RepeatContent("RepeatChildrenContent").Hide()
                            .AddItem(new FieldContent("OrganizationName", "Рога и копыта")))
            );

            using (var outputDocument = new TemplateProcessor("OutputDocument.docx")
                .SetRemoveContentControls(true))
            {
                outputDocument.FillContent(valuesToFill);
                outputDocument.SaveChanges();
            }
        }
    }
}

I just added the library to my project using NuGet (version 1.1.1) and when I execute the following code:

    public static void CopyTemplate()
    {
        File.Copy("TemplateBasic.docx", "outputPath.docx", true);
        var valuesToFill = new Content(
            new FieldContent("ReportDate", DateTime.Now.ToString()));

        using (var outputDoc = new TemplateProcessor("OutputDoc.docx"))
        {
            outputDoc.FillContent(valuesToFill);
            outputDoc.SaveChanges();
        }
    }

It fails indicating a null reference in the LoadPart method.
The template that I use is very basic, it only contains a field.
If I get the latest code from GitHub instead, everything works.
Is the NuGet library out of sync?

Need a way to insert line breaks (paragraph) in a FieldContent, as using \r\n in the string does not work.

Hi!
When I put fields inside repeating contents, templateEngine doesn't fill value of Fields Contents inside of content.
Can you please show example how to fill fields inside repeating contents?

There is a new open source Open-XML-SDK, that will run also with .net core.

Do you think that we could use this as dependency instead of this old unsupported DocumentFormat.OpenXml?

Could you please release a new release package and push it to nuget?
The latest version on nuget is 1.1.4 and was published 2/13/2017

https://www.nuget.org/packages/TemplateEngine.Docx/1.1.4

What if I need to insert Paragraph on new line ?

Early here was issue #2 , and was addes code:

public static void ReplaceNewLinesWithBreaks(XElement xElem)
        {
            if (xElem == null) return;

            var textWithBreaks = xElem.Descendants(W.t).Where(t => t.Value.Contains("\r\n"));
            foreach (var textWithBreak in textWithBreaks)
            {
                var text = textWithBreak.Value;
                var split = text.Replace("\r\n", "\n").Split(new[] { "\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None);
                textWithBreak.Value = string.Empty;
                foreach (var s in split)
                {
                    textWithBreak.Add(new XElement(W.t, s));
                    textWithBreak.Add(new XElement(W.br));
                }
                textWithBreak.Descendants(W.br).Last().Remove();
            }
        }

But when it insert br - it don't copy style for element (like padding). How can I add real paragraph ? I tried make like this, but it's breaking document:

 public static void ReplaceNewLinesWithBreaks(XElement xElem)
        {
            if (xElem == null) return;

            var textWithBreaks = xElem.Descendants(W.t).Where(t => t.Value.Contains("\r\n"));
            foreach (var textWithBreak in textWithBreaks)
            {
                var text = textWithBreak.Value;
                var split = text.Replace("\r\n", "\n").Split(new[] { "\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None);
                textWithBreak.Value = string.Empty;
                foreach (var s in split)
                {
                    xElem.Add(new XElement(W.p, new XElement(W.r, new XElement(W.t, s))));      //here changed code              
                }                                
            }
        }

Maybe I can get some true parent element, where I can add those new Paragraphs ?

Thank you!!

Is there any way to create a grouped table? I want to create a table of items, where the items are grouped by having a merged header row.

something like this:

[Section 1]
[Section Item1 Column 1] [Section Item1 Column 2]
[Section Item1 Column 1] [Section Item1 Column 2]
[Section 2]
[Section Item2 Column 1] [Section Item2 Column 2]
[Section Item2 Column 1] [Section Item2 Column 2]
[Section Item2 Column 1] [Section Item2 Column 2]

That would be awesome if that was possible.

Table may have some sort of "header" rows and details. It will be nice to have nested row functionality in table content.

I would like to be able able to protect the aspect ratio of the images I am placing in my template.

My Picture Content Control is inside a table cell and I am trying to make sure my image shrinks respecting the original aspect ratio just enough to fit in.

For this, I could resize the image myself, before using it to fill the control. I understand this is outside the scope of TemplateEngine.Docx,. However, I couldn't find a better place to ask this. Could someone show me the way to solve this?

It's would be nice to have functionality that allows to display templates based on condition.
For example if property of FieldContent equals true display one block of templates and another one in case of false.

When generating empty content (for example, RepeatContent) library throws. Some lists can be empty in generated document so I think library should not throw but generate as hidden.

Stack:

Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: source
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.SelectMany[TSource,TResult](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 selector)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Container.<>c.<get_FieldNames>b__26_1(RepeatContent t)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<SelectManyIterator>d__17`2.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<ConcatIterator>d__59`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<ConcatIterator>d__59`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<ConcatIterator>d__59`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<ConcatIterator>d__59`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<ConcatIterator>d__59`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<SelectManyIterator>d__17`2.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<DistinctIterator>d__64`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 collection)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.TableContent.get_FieldNames()
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.TableProcessor.FillContent(XContainer contentControl, IContentI
tem item)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.TableProcessor.FillContent(XElement contentControl, IEnumerable
`1 items)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.ContentProcessor.FillContent(XElement content, IEnumerable`1 da
ta)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.TemplateProcessor.FillContent(Content content)
   at HiddenRepeatRepro.Program.Main(String[] args) in D:\Work\HiddenRepeatRepro\Program.cs:line 49

Template: EmptyContentTemplate.docx

Repro:

using System;
using System.IO;
using TemplateEngine.Docx;

namespace EmptyContentRepro
{
	static class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			string templateFile = "EmptyContentTemplate.docx";
			string outputFile = "EmptyContentRepro.docx";

			File.Delete(outputFile);
			File.Copy(templateFile, outputFile);

			var repeat = new RepeatContent("repeat1"); // empty
			var table = new TableContent("table1").AddRow(repeat);
			var content = new Content(table);

			using (var template = new TemplateProcessor(outputFile).SetRemoveContentControls(true))
			{
				template.FillContent(content);
				template.SaveChanges();
			}
		}
	}
}

The current Nuget package (v1.1.4) lists the following dependancy:

DocumentFormat.OpenXml (>= 2.5.0)

but upgrading DocumentFormat.OpenXml to a newer version (ex. 2.7,2) causes a runtime exception:

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'Could not load file or assembly 'DocumentFormat.OpenXml, Version=2.5.5631.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.'

Move Project to Netstandart

Hi,

I am getting a number of errors when I provide to many Field Content Controls to the parser:

Field Content Control 'user.Id' not found.

But the document continues parsing, which is fine.

However when I provide more fields in a table, the parsing fails without continuing:

Table Content Control 'data.Users' doesn't contain rows with cell content controls 'Id', 'Name', 'Email', 'LanguageId'.

(some of the fields are in the document, some are not)

Is it possible to configure parsing to ignore extra fields provided to the parser?
I am dynamically providing objects to the parsers, so when new properties are added to the object, they are offered to the parser. However in a table this throws an exception 😞

It is possible to use LibreOffice to prepare document template?

Hi , I need to plot the chart data in the template engine.docx , how we are pasing the table content to the engine same way if we pass the chart data , needs to plot the data/image into the templates.

I need to replace the field with styled (bold, italic, e.t.c) content. I have the ability to convert my content to an OpenXML string. For example:

<w: pxmlns: w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main"><w: r><w: txml: space="preserve">Thisisjust</w: t></w: r><w: r><w: rPr><w: b/></w: rPr><w: txml: space="preserve">arandom</w: t></w: r><w: r><w: txml: space="preserve">pargraph</w: t></w: r></w: p>

However, I can't figure out how to replace the placeholder with that styled content.

Объект Content отлично сериализуется в json, но десериализовать его не получается из за интерфейсов в конструкторе.
Я думаю было бы отлично реализовать что-нибудь типа new Content(json).
Это значительно расширит возможности применения библиотеки.
А что думаете Вы?

Hello! There is a problem when deploying the DLL of your project (installed via NuGet) to GAC. Using Visual Studio deployment (deploying SharePoint solution) fails with error "Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': This solution contains one or more assemblies targeted for the global assembly cache. You should use a strong name for any assembly that will be in the global assembly cache."
Then, when I tried to use Gacutil I've got "Failure adding assembly to the cache: Attempt to install an assembly without a strong name". According to Google this can be fixed with signing the project of DLL (project properties -> Signing tab). For myself I've got it fixed with signing the project of your library and rebuilding it.

Hi,
I couldn't find a solution or an example on how to fill a document that consists of a list with multiple levels and more than one field on each level.

1. Level1Header
   Level1Description1
   Level2Description2
   1.1 Level2Header
   Level2Description1
   Level2Description2
   1.1.1 Level3Header
   Level3Description1
   Level3Description2

I hope my description is understandable and you can provide me an example, so I can understand how nested lists work.

Best Regards,
Roman

When using the content.Tables.Add(table),and then the table'content will overwrite the old content。

When trying to install the NuGet Package I receive the message "Could not install package 'TemplateEngine.Docx 1.1.5'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.1', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are
compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author."

Is this really not compatible with this version?

Does the engine allow inserting html code in a FieldContent value?

Option: Save as PDF. It's possible?

There seems to be a bug in table nesting. I tried to put a table in a table cell, when it generates there is no error but the whole row does not show anything. The main table is part of a List
Conceptual Structure:

<List>
 <MainTable>
   <Row>
      <Cell1>
             fields....
      </Cell1>
     <Cell2>
             <ChildTable>
                    <Row>
                          fields...  
                    </Row>
             </ChildTable>
     </Cell2>

   </Row>
  </MainTable>
</List>

Library is not working with fields declared in header/footer (I tested only footer)
Библиотека не работает с полями определенными в колонтитулах

Можно ли создать документ по шаблону без сохранения на сервере, чтобы он сразу отправлялся пользователю для скачивания?
Ситуация такая - есть сайт, пользователи заходят, заполняют форму, данные сохраняются на сервере, а для пользователя формируется файл с заполненными им данными. Получается, что если одновременно для нескольких пользователей генерируется файл, то он удаляется, перезаписывается, и пользователь может получить не свои данные...

Hi,

We want to insert the body of document A into the header of document B. For this task we could use a SUBDOCUMENT content control which we need to place it in the header of the document B.

¿Would it be possible to implement it with this template engine?

Thanks in advance

Code

Is there a way to prevent errors being written into the .docx?

The .docx I'm using doesn't implement all of the Content Control tags that are passed into the document.

We could replace some html tags like (< b >,< p >,< i > etc)

callstack:

at System.Linq.Enumerable.First[TSource](IEnumerable1 source) at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.TableProcessor.GetPrototype(XContainer tableContentControl, IEnumerable1 fieldNames)
at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.TableProcessor.FillContent(XContainer contentControl, IContentItem item)
at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.TableProcessor.FillContent(XElement contentControl, IEnumerable1 items) at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.ContentProcessor.FillContent(XElement content, IEnumerable1 data)
at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.ContentProcessor.FillContent(XElement content, Content data)
at TemplateEngine.Docx.TemplateProcessor.FillContent(Content content)

For example, there is a document and several blocks repetating

name "User", field name, address and telephone.

I want to write down the data about the user in three places, but at the same time where I load all the fields and somewhere only the name

Adding a RepeatContent to a RepeatContent does not work.
It would be helpful to create a nested structure of text.

(n products, have n patches with n changes)
Otherwise nested ListContent would be an alternative to have nested ListContent blocks .

something like:

var valuesToFill = new Content(new RepeatContent("RepeatParentContent")
.AddItem(new FieldContent("Title", "Tests"),
new RepeatContent("RepeatChildrenContent", new FieldContent("SubTest", "WORKS!!!!"))
.AddItem(new RepeatContent("RepeatChildrenContent", new FieldContent("SubTest", "WORKS also!!!!")))
);

Hi,

Thank you for this library!

It's been a while since the NuGet package was updated, and I see changes that I would very much like to use. Would you mind updating the package? :)

I made a mistake building the Content and created a Table with zero rows.

The error thrown was

Message: System.ArgumentNullException : Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: source

Result StackTrace:	
at System.Linq.Enumerable.SelectMany[TSource,TResult](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 selector)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Container.<>c__DisplayClass26_0.<get_FieldNames>b__3(TableContent t)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.SelectManySingleSelectorIterator`2.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ConcatIterator`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ConcatIterator`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.SelectManySingleSelectorIterator`2.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Set`1.UnionWith(IEnumerable`1 other)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.DistinctIterator`1.FillSet()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.DistinctIterator`1.ToList()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.RepeatContent.get_FieldNames()
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.RepeatProcessor.FillContent(XElement contentControl, IContentItem item)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.RepeatProcessor.FillContent(XElement contentControl, IEnumerable`1 items)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.ContentProcessor.FillContent(XElement content, IEnumerable`1 data)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.Processors.ContentProcessor.FillContent(XElement content, Content data)
   at TemplateEngine.Docx.TemplateProcessor.FillContent(Content content)
   at Slingshot.Templates.WordTemplate.WordTemplateProcessor.FillContent(Content valuesToFill)
   at Slingshot.Templates.WordTemplate.WordTemplateProcessor.FillContentFromModel(Object model)
   at Slingshot.PropostaDeServico.PropostaDeServicoTemplate.GerarDocumento(IArchive archive, PropostaDeServicoModel model)
   at Slingshot.PipelineAtm.PipelineAtmFull.GerarAtmFull(Stream sementeStream, Stream outputStream)
   at Slingshot.PipelineAtm.Tests.PipelineAtmFullTests.CreateOutput()
Result Message:	
System.ArgumentNullException : Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: source

I traced it to an attempt by a RepeatContent to enumerate all its children, on class Container, at FieldNames:

var repeatsFieldNames = Repeats == null
   ? new List<string>()
   : Repeats.Select(t => t.Name).Concat(Repeats.SelectMany(t => t.Items.SelectMany(r => r.FieldNames)));

I'm not sure if TableContents must have rows, but I recommend a better error message to save us the time diagnosing this situation.

Greetings! This library is excellent and I've been happily using it on Windows for a while. However, I would like to have it compiled and used on a Linux environment, but the license (MS-LPL) doesn't allow that freedom. If it makes no difference to you, can you change the license to a very similar, but more permissive one such as MS-PL?