OpenDoPE Word Add-In
Introduction
The OpenDoPE Word Add-In is an Add-In for Microsoft Word 2007 which is designed to help you to:
bind content controls to CustomXML parts - In this respect it is similar to the Content
Control Toolkit, except that it runs from within Word
make the contents of a content control into conditional text
make the contents of a content control repeat a certain number of times
insert another docx at run time in place of a content control
It implements the architecture described in Convention for repeating/conditional content controls
Once you have used the Add-In to instrument your docx, it is ready to be pre-processed to create
instance documents.
You'll need software to do this. Pre-processing implementations
Enviroment
Architecture
Status
Java
server-side
implemented in docx4j v2.6.0
Word macros
client-side
this Add-In includes a macro which it can
inject into your docx
.NET
N/A
not done (could be ported from the Java
quite easily)
Add-In Status
The OpenDoPE Word Add-In is currently available as a pre-alpha quality download.
It can be used to create documents which:
the macro or a web site like fabdocx.com can process interactively
the Java pre-processor can process in non-interactive mode
It is certainly helpful for getting a feel for how the convention works (instrument a docx using the
Add-In, save it, and then unzip the resulting docx and look at it).
Download and Setup
Make sure you have the full .NET 4 framework installed (the .NET 4 CP client profile is not
sufficient), then
download the OpenDoPE Word Add-In from http://dev.plutext.org/opendope/setup.exe
After a successful install, upon opening Word. you will see a new OpenDoPE menu:
