Creating word documents from X++

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Does anyone have experience creating word documents from code and inserting relevant DAX data? We are trying to spit out letters through a class as we process info. I am currently looking at the docuAction and extended classes, but seem to be getting held up on the parameters to send.

We do not necessarily need the doc stored on the record, our main goal is the generation and saving of the file.

Any help is appreciated.

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Martin Dráb 237,880 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi,

as you probably know, Document handling allows you to specify a word template and map table fields to bookmarks in the template (Basic > Setup > Document management > Document types > Options).

Docu* classes use that logic and therefore they require DocuRef record. The core is something like this:

DocuRef docuRef = DocuRef::findRecId(5637146847);
DocuAction action = DocuAction::newDocuType(DocuRef.docuType());
Args args = new Args();
;

args.record(docuRef);
args.parmEnumType(enumNum(DocuCode));
args.parmEnum(DocuCode::Add);

action.findDocuTable(docuRef.RefTableId);
action.run(args);

Another possibility is to use COM (example) or .NET classes.

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DaxDev 165 on at

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Martin -

Thanks for you reply. I went with nearly that same aproach and used both Docu classes and the Com classes to create the word document and store it with document handling. Took a bit to get the args right for the docu class since I was doing it through code but it worked.

Your response and time is greatly appreciated.

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Rajdip Das 3,333 on at

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You can also check the following jobs...

static void Raj_ToWord(Args _args)
{
    COM wordApplication;
    COM wordDocuments;
    COM wordDocument;
    COM wordRange;
    ;

    wordApplication = new COM("word.application");
    wordApplication.visible(TRUE);
    wordDocuments = wordApplication.Documents();
    wordDocument = wordDocuments.add();
    wordDocument.saveas("c:\\TestDoc.doc");
    wordDocument.activate();
    wordRange = wordDocument.range(0,0);
    wordRange.insertafter("Rajdip Das");

    wordRange.italic(true);
    wordDocument.save();
//   wordDocument.close();
//   wordApplication.quit();
}

happy daxing :)

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Bradley Burden 10 on at

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We use the standard document handling to create word documens for CRM quotes. there are some significant formatiing limitations because the document handling inserts all records from the quoet line into the SAME row of the word table where the bookmarks are. I want to include a new field similar to the "Hard Return" option but his will be "Tab Option" so I can send a tab on the last field in the row to create a new row in the word table. can Someone point me in the direction to where the "Hard Return" code is executed?

thanks

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Bradley Burden 10 on at

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I found the code in Class DocuActionCOM_word:

boolean insertHardLineBreak()
{
    coMrange.insertAfter(num2char(13));
    coMrange.insertAfter(num2char(9)); //my test here to add tab
    return true;
}

it did not acheive what I wanted, it just added a tab at the end of the data in the cell rather than creating a new row in the tale.

So if anyone knows how to get each record into a new row of the word table it would be much appreciated. At the moment it takes quite a while for the users to manually reformat the document.

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I have only tried to creat Word documents using C#. I think you'd better choose some fine Word processing SDK to help you with your work. It can be easy in the generation and saving of the file. You can google it and check some free trial package first if possible. I hope you success. Good luck.

Best regards,

Arron

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