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General Board / Re: custom documents fail to update
« on: December 05, 2023, 09:26:23 pm »
Same here. It is very annoying that apparently, it is even not possible to delete the corrupted section and insert the content again. I was told that "the custom Document issue should be fixed in EA 16 build 1627 or greater." I've tested it and it looks like they implemented some kind of workaround with a few additional automated steps added to the updating process. However, it still does not look to me like a professional solution.

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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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Bugs and Issues / Re: Document generation broken in v16.1
« on: July 05, 2023, 04:57:03 pm »
Please have a look at my earlier post:
https://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,47892.0.html

I think this might be related, as updating dynamic content seems to create extra characters, which are sometimes heading paragraph marks.

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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