Microsoft Word Document Controls not accepting carriage returns
- by Scott
So, I have a Microsoft Word 2007 Document with several Plain Text Format (I have tried Rich Text Format as well) controls which accept input via XML.
For carriage returns, I had the string being passed through XML containing "\r\n" when I wanted a carriage return, but the word document ignored that and just kept wrapping things on the same line. I also tried replacing the \r\n with System.Environment.NewLine in my C# mapper, but that just put in \r\n anyway, which still didn't work.
Note also that on the control itself I have set it to "Allow Carriage Returns (Multiple Paragrpahs)" in the control properties.
This is the XML for the listMapper
<Field id="32" name="32" fieldType="SimpleText">
<DataSelector path="/Data/DB/DebtProduct">
<InputField fieldType="" path="/Data/DB/Client/strClientFirm" link="" type=""/>
<InputField fieldType="" path="strClientRefDebt" link="" type=""/>
</DataSelector>
<DataMapper formatString="{0} Account Number: {1}" name="SimpleListMapper" type="">
<MapperData>
</MapperData>
</DataMapper>
</Field>
Note that this is the listMapper C# where I actually map the list (notice where I try and append the system.environment.newline)
namespace DocEngine.Core.DataMappers
{
public class CSimpleListMapper:CBaseDataMapper
{
public override void Fill(DocEngine.Core.Interfaces.Document.IControl control, CDataSelector dataSelector)
{
if (control != null && dataSelector != null)
{
ISimpleTextControl textControl = (ISimpleTextControl)control;
IContent content = textControl.CreateContent();
CInputFieldCollection fileds = dataSelector.Read(Context);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
if (fileds != null)
{
foreach (List<string> lst in fileds)
{
if (CanMap(lst) == false) continue;
if (builder.Length > 0 && lst[0].Length > 0)
builder.Append(Environment.NewLine);
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(FormatString))
builder.Append(lst[0]);
else
builder.Append(string.Format(FormatString, lst.ToArray()));
}
content.Value = builder.ToString();
textControl.Content = content;
applyRules(control, null);
}
}
}
}
}
Does anybody have any clue at all how I can get MS Word 2007 (docx) to quit ignoring my newline characters??
