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General Board / Ways to edit "field codes" in document templates
« on: November 22, 2023, 03:38:02 am »
Hello,

the document generation in EA is somewhat "un-sophisticated". I'm having a lot of issues with the standard tools provided, e.g. with inserting sections in a document template. Selecting the sections from the board works, but moving the tags later to a different position seems to be impossible. Therefore, I have the following question:

Is there any possibility to edit the "code" used to generate the sections and other hidden information in the document template (something similar to editing the field codes in MS Word)?

I would very much appreciate any feedback on this point!

Kind regards,
Stefan

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Hello,

in EA v16.0.1604, I am trying to use the "custom document" feature in order to create an architecture description in MS Word format. I'm using fragment templates to insert dynamic content. Inserting seems to work well. However, when I am using the "update dynamic content" function, EA apparently always duplicates the last character of the template, which normally is the end-of-paragraph mark. With every update, there are additional paragraph marks inserted. In other cases, when the fragment template contains a table, apparently the end-of-table mark is duplicated, such that I get a table in a table after updating the dynamic content, so the format is completely destroyed.

Several questions:
  • Is this a known bug?
  • Is there any way to display a kind of field code (as in Word) displaying what is behind the embedded dynamic content?
  • Is there any way to modify the template to avoid the duplication of characters?
This is a very annoying issue, because the model content is still changing frequently, so frequent document updates are needed. After several such updates, the document becomes unreadable and the only workaround seems to be to remove all dynamic content and re-insert it.

Kind regards,
Stefan

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