"Print" Fields. Is it possible to create them?

[jallen]

Hi Jason,

I'm hoping maybe you can point me in the right direction. Our client uses an offsite printing service that reads printer codes out of old style "Print" fields. I have to create new print fields as I am building the batched word doc using MergeDocx. I can't see how to create a new print field in docx4j. My main issue is that I can't find any class for instrText. I believe if I had that I could make it work.

Here is an example of the xml:

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<w:p>
  <w:r>
    <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="begin"/>
  </w:r>

  <w:r>
    <w:instrText xml:space="preserve"> print 027"&amp;p14X@@@FORM=BAN000 </w:instrText>
  </w:r>

  <w:r>
    <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="end"/>
  </w:r>
</w:p>

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[jason]

In org.docx4j.wml.ObjectFactory, the method you want to use is:

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    @XmlElementDecl(namespace = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main", name = "instrText", scope = R.class)
    public JAXBElement<Text> createRInstrText(Text value) {
        return new JAXBElement<Text>(_RInstrText_QNAME, Text.class, R.class, value);
    }
 

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or you should be able to unmarshall a string of XML representing the entire paragraph using XmlUtils.unmarshalString (don't forget to add a declaration for xmlns:w to it).

[jallen]

For anyone intersted.

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private void addPrintField(org.docx4j.wml.P par, String printCode) {
      
      try {
      
         org.docx4j.wml.R run;
         FldChar fld;

         // Create Field Begin
         run = objectFactory.createR();
         fld = objectFactory.createFldChar();
         fld.setFldCharType(STFldCharType.BEGIN);
         run.getContent().add(fld);
         par.getContent().add(0,run);   

         // Create Instr Text
         run = objectFactory.createR();
         Text text = objectFactory.createText();
         text.setValue(printCode);
         JAXBElement<Text> instr = objectFactory.createRInstrText(text);
         run.getContent().add(instr);
         par.getContent().add(1,run); 

         // Create Field End
         run = objectFactory.createR();
         fld = objectFactory.createFldChar();
         fld.setFldCharType(STFldCharType.END);
         run.getContent().add(fld);
         par.getContent().add(2,run); 

      } catch (Exception e) {
         log.error("addPrintField", true, e);
      }

   }