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Custom Controls in comments?
I have an XML file that contains keywords that are mapped to custom controls
in a Word 2007 template. Each of the XML data fields has attributes that can not be displayed directly in the document. There are four attributes for every keyword and there could be thousands of keywords. It would make the document very cumbersome and difficult to read. I need to have the users update these attributes. So, to make things simpler, I would like to only display the attributes for one of the keywords at a time. I tried updating the RibbonX to display the attribute info. But apparently you cannot update the Ribbon values from a Template. To do so it would require an Add-In. (Which has its own bag of issues I would rather not deal with at the moment) The optimal solution would be one in which I can map a custom control to the attributes and only display them when the keyword is selected. Would something like that work with comments/notes? Any other ideas? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Al |
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Hi ?B?QWw=?=,
What do you mean by "custom control"? Do you mean a content control? It looks like Word will let you place a content control in a comment, although it appears it needs to contain some text (not just placeholder text) in order for it to be accessible to the user. An alternate approach might be to use SmartTags. Possibly a VSTO document-level customization with document-specific SmartTags. I have an XML file that contains keywords that are mapped to custom controls in a Word 2007 template. Each of the XML data fields has attributes that can not be displayed directly in the document. There are four attributes for every keyword and there could be thousands of keywords. It would make the document very cumbersome and difficult to read. I need to have the users update these attributes. So, to make things simpler, I would like to only display the attributes for one of the keywords at a time. I tried updating the RibbonX to display the attribute info. But apparently you cannot update the Ribbon values from a Template. To do so it would require an Add-In. (Which has its own bag of issues I would rather not deal with at the moment) The optimal solution would be one in which I can map a custom control to the attributes and only display them when the keyword is selected. Would something like that work with comments/notes? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Cindy,
Thanks for answering my question! Yes, I meant content controls. I was just sleepy and used the wrong word... I'll give it a try and report back. Al "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?QWw=?=, What do you mean by "custom control"? Do you mean a content control? It looks like Word will let you place a content control in a comment, although it appears it needs to contain some text (not just placeholder text) in order for it to be accessible to the user. An alternate approach might be to use SmartTags. Possibly a VSTO document-level customization with document-specific SmartTags. I have an XML file that contains keywords that are mapped to custom controls in a Word 2007 template. Each of the XML data fields has attributes that can not be displayed directly in the document. There are four attributes for every keyword and there could be thousands of keywords. It would make the document very cumbersome and difficult to read. I need to have the users update these attributes. So, to make things simpler, I would like to only display the attributes for one of the keywords at a time. I tried updating the RibbonX to display the attribute info. But apparently you cannot update the Ribbon values from a Template. To do so it would require an Add-In. (Which has its own bag of issues I would rather not deal with at the moment) The optimal solution would be one in which I can map a custom control to the attributes and only display them when the keyword is selected. Would something like that work with comments/notes? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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