How to Create word document with Check box form fields using POI API ?

[Jasmin Ramesh]

Hi

I am able to create a word document supplying a specfic template as in below code.
But the special fields like "Check Box form field" are lost in the generated output.

Note : I have modified the Range.java class of POI Api to include a method "replacewith"

Can anyone help ..?

 
import java.io.*; 
import org.apache.poi.hpsf.CustomProperties; 
import org.apache.poi.hpsf.DocumentSummaryInformation; 
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument; 
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.*; 
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem; 

public class CreateWordDoc { 
public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception { 
// POI apparently can't create a document from scratch, 
// so we need an existing empty dummy document 
POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream("c:\\data\\sample.dot")); 
HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(fs); 

// centered paragraph with large font size 
Range range = doc.getRange(); 
Range r1 = doc.getRange(); 

for ( int i = 0; i < r1.numSections(); ++i ) { 
Section s = r1.getSection(i); 
for (int x = 0; x < s.numParagraphs(); x++) 
{ 
Paragraph p = s.getParagraph(x); 
for (int z = 0; z < p.numCharacterRuns(); z++){ 
//character run 
CharacterRun run = p.getCharacterRun(z); 
//character run text 
String text = run.text(); 
if( text.equalsIgnoreCase("CurrDate")) { 
String theDate = "28-05-2009"; 
if ( theDate != null ){ 
run.replaceWith(theDate); 
} } 
if( text.equalsIgnoreCase("XYZ")) { 
String theapplicantName = "Mr.John"; 
if ( theapplicantName != null ){ 
run.replaceWith(theapplicantName); 
} } } } 
} 

// add a custom document property (needs POI 3.5; POI 3.2 doesn't save custom properties) 
DocumentSummaryInformation dsi = doc.getDocumentSummaryInformation(); 
CustomProperties cp = dsi.getCustomProperties(); 
if (cp == null) 
cp = new CustomProperties(); 
cp.put("myProperty", "foo bar baz"); 
dsi.setCustomProperties(cp); 
doc.write(new FileOutputStream("c:\\data\\new-hwpf-file.doc")); 
} 
} 

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Jasmin,

What version of the POI API are you using? Also what version of Word are you trying to export to?

[Jasmin Ramesh]

Hi

I am using POI 3.0 final and MS word 2003 version

[Martijn Verburg]

Hmm, I'm no expert but a few posts I found Googling hinted that this wasn't possible because checkboxes etc are actually small VB Macros? Hopefully someone with actual knowledge will be able to confirm/deny.

I would also suggest trying with POI 3.2 and 3.5 Beta 5 to see if it's a bug fix/new feature to have this support.

[juan sebastian sanchez]

Jasmin Sakila wrote:Hi

I am able to create a word document supplying a specfic template as in below code.
But the special fields like "Check Box form field" are lost in the generated output.

Note : I have modified the Range.java class of POI Api to include a method "replacewith"

Can anyone help ..?

 
import java.io.*; 
import org.apache.poi.hpsf.CustomProperties; 
import org.apache.poi.hpsf.DocumentSummaryInformation; 
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument; 
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.*; 
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem; 

public class CreateWordDoc { 
public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception { 
// POI apparently can't create a document from scratch, 
// so we need an existing empty dummy document 
POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream("c:\\data\\sample.dot")); 
HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(fs); 

// centered paragraph with large font size 
Range range = doc.getRange(); 
Range r1 = doc.getRange(); 

for ( int i = 0; i < r1.numSections(); ++i ) { 
Section s = r1.getSection(i); 
for (int x = 0; x < s.numParagraphs(); x++) 
{ 
Paragraph p = s.getParagraph(x); 
for (int z = 0; z < p.numCharacterRuns(); z++){ 
//character run 
CharacterRun run = p.getCharacterRun(z); 
//character run text 
String text = run.text(); 
if( text.equalsIgnoreCase("CurrDate")) { 
String theDate = "28-05-2009"; 
if ( theDate != null ){ 
run.replaceWith(theDate); 
} } 
if( text.equalsIgnoreCase("XYZ")) { 
String theapplicantName = "Mr.John"; 
if ( theapplicantName != null ){ 
run.replaceWith(theapplicantName); 
} } } } 
} 

// add a custom document property (needs POI 3.5; POI 3.2 doesn't save custom properties) 
DocumentSummaryInformation dsi = doc.getDocumentSummaryInformation(); 
CustomProperties cp = dsi.getCustomProperties(); 
if (cp == null) 
cp = new CustomProperties(); 
cp.put("myProperty", "foo bar baz"); 
dsi.setCustomProperties(cp); 
doc.write(new FileOutputStream("c:\\data\\new-hwpf-file.doc")); 
} 
} 

Please can you help me with the code of method of replaceWith() that you did plesas