Generate Word Document - applying styles
Hi,
Greetings. Hope you are doing well! I am trying to generate a word document using the smart shape and noticed that i could not generate word with any styles. Is there any way this can be done? Example, i am trying to get a table in word, this looks fine in a UI within Pega but not when it renders on word. I am on Pega 8.6.2/8.7.
Any questions, please do let me know!
Regards,
Bharat
Updated: 17 Feb 2022 9:51 EST
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
@KOMARINA can you clarify how the table does not look right in Word compared to how you are displaying it in Pega? Can you provide a concrete example?
Did this Generate Document smart shape used to work in the past?
Can you tell us what forum posts you have already tried ? (See here, and here ). There are some demos on youtube.
Did you follow the steps documented here?
How are you using the Word Template?
Accenture
GB
@MarijeSchillern Hi, I never used word in a smart shape before so i am not sure if it worked or not, those links were for PDF and i am aware that PDF retains the styles. Please see attached, the section in Pega and in word
Updated: 17 Feb 2022 11:07 EST
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
@KOMARINA in the Video Library link I gave you for Generating a document smart shape (6 minutes in) the author speaks about the use of lists in the smart shape.
You may want to provide more details about how you created the table. How is the Tailored Out? column (missing in your word screenshot) configured in your section table?
See here.
Can you show the screen of the Generate Document workflow step and the corresponding Template Document?
Does it fall in the list of supported styles - ie a static or repeating table?
Accenture
GB
@MarijeSchillern I am using the section in word using the tag <pegaref config={"name":"SectionName","type":"S"}>, they did mention that styling and CSS3 is not supported, i just wanted to check if this is the case and there is no way for styles to be included
i did create a read-only section for the display onto the word
This is the Generate document smart shape
Note: Document generation does not support skin styling and CSS3. As a result, the application might not properly render Pega autogenerated sections.
EIB
PL
@KOMARINA Maybe you could try creating non-autogenerated section for the table grid to be referenced in Word. Then you can add css styles inside that section. It is hard to maintain though, since you need to update that section for every changes in your original auto generated section.