Assembling documents
Using Alpha5 v11 web
I have a number of Microsoft Word documents (about 50) that are highly structured i.e., all paragraphs are using bespoke styles and are numbered using legal numbering 1.1, 1.2.1 etc. I need the user to be able to pick any or all of them in any order to assemble into a single document. I have tried saving this as rtf files and Microsoft Word allows them to be assembled into a single document and adjusts the paragraph numbering accordingly.
I�ve tried adding the files as blobs to a SQL table and as rtf objects to a SQL table and they look ok but reports treats each record as an individual object with no links to the previous record so the paragraph numbering does not update.
I�ve tried using xbasic function from an Ajax call back to fire up Microsoft Word on the server and assemble the document successfully saving and writing a record through VBA to the SQL server. But the problem with this is I can�t seem to pass data from Alpha5 to Word by writing a txt file to a folder (would seem to be a good idea to use the users session folder) but how can, when starting Word tell it the name of the session folder.
I may be going about this all wrong and I�m running out of ideas of how to approach this. Can anyone point me in another direction?
Regards Jon
I have a number of Microsoft Word documents (about 50) that are highly structured i.e., all paragraphs are using bespoke styles and are numbered using legal numbering 1.1, 1.2.1 etc. I need the user to be able to pick any or all of them in any order to assemble into a single document. I have tried saving this as rtf files and Microsoft Word allows them to be assembled into a single document and adjusts the paragraph numbering accordingly.
I�ve tried adding the files as blobs to a SQL table and as rtf objects to a SQL table and they look ok but reports treats each record as an individual object with no links to the previous record so the paragraph numbering does not update.
I�ve tried using xbasic function from an Ajax call back to fire up Microsoft Word on the server and assemble the document successfully saving and writing a record through VBA to the SQL server. But the problem with this is I can�t seem to pass data from Alpha5 to Word by writing a txt file to a folder (would seem to be a good idea to use the users session folder) but how can, when starting Word tell it the name of the session folder.
I may be going about this all wrong and I�m running out of ideas of how to approach this. Can anyone point me in another direction?
Regards Jon