How to write data to MS Word bookmarks using JScript

darkstar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:34:04 GMT

I really really hope someone can help with this one. I have a form that I'm using to create a Word document using XSL transformations with WordML. Plain and rich text are transformed OK, but no matter what I do tables always seem to screw up. I'm now exploring a hybrid solution, with XSL transforms for text and bookmarks to transfer data in table cells. I have an old form with VBScript code to write to table cells starting from a bookmark in the first cell:

Sub cmdWordDoc_OnClick(eventObj)

Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

objWord.Documents.Open("C:\Templates\Test_Template.dot")

objWord.Visible = True

With objWord.Selection

.GoTo -1,,,"TableCell1_Bookmark"

.TypeText XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:Row1_Column1").Text

.MoveRight 12

.TypeText XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:Row1_Column2").Text

.MoveRight 12

.TypeText XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:Row1_Column3").Text

End With

End Sub

Unfortunately, my current form has code in JScript, and at this point so much work has gone into it that I don't feel it's worth it to convert the whole thing to VBScript. I have the first part working and can open the Word template, but I can't seem to find the JScript equivalents to work with the bookmarks.

On a related note, what would be the proper way to code a For-Each type loop in JScript to transfer data from a repeating table in InfoPath to the Word table described above? The source repeating table in IP and the target table in Word would have the same number of columns but the number of rows would only be known at runtime.

I'm using IP2007 but saving as IP2003 for compatibility.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

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How to write data to MS Word bookmarks using JScript