The OpenEdge Hive - issues for Word Documents Created from OE

MS WORD ReadOnly Method

errolc — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:32:51 +0000

Hi,
My application creates an invoice in MSWORD and then subsequently email's the document. I want to make the document 'Read Only' before the it gets sent off. Does anybody know the syntax to achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

Errol

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Word Automation "InsertFile" Method fails with Insufficient Memory error

NoblePursuits — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:06:27 +0000

I have a Word Automation issue that I haven't been able to get past. Our client has roughly 4 to 5 pages of rich text stored in our Progress OE 10 database that we haven't been able to insert into a new Word document using the InsertFile method. The text contains no images, tables, etc., just rich text. The process is not new, and the same client has used it hundreds or maybe thousands of times for the same purpose. The text size approaches the largest text size in use, but doesn't appear to be the largest. The most recent change to the data was to add "a few words".

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Windows Background Process w/o Taskbar Entry

NoblePursuits — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:25:30 +0000

Does anyone know a way to launch an OE session in the background on Windows (XP) without having it show on the Windows Taskbar? Looking to create a "silent" process that is run from the Windows Task Scheduler that runs frequently throughout the day, and don't want the "noise" for the user.

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Can't Seem to Set WidowControl

NoblePursuits — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:33:02 +0000

Using the the Word automation object, generally with great results. The problem is that I can't set the ParagraphFormat properties of WidowControl, KeepWithNext, or KeepTogether.

The OE COM Object Viewer shows these as integer values.

(from the viewer ...)
Property Set: :KeepWithNext [ = Integer-Var ].

This is apparently untrue, as usage of an integer will generate a type mismatch error at runtime. Boolean values do not generate the error, but fail to set the properties, also. I have also tried characters "0" and "1", but they generate errors. Any ideas???

ABL(4GL) General Programming Group

Problems with Inserted Images (OE 10.2B/Office 2010)

NoblePursuits — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:25:19 +0000

A new Word issue is surfacing in our application now that we are on 10.2B. We are no longer able to create re-openable Word documents in which we have inserted images. The application has been in production for over 1 year, but since upgrading to 10.2B, this problem has arisen.

We are using the "Word.application" automation object, and insert the images (usually into tables) using:

chShapes = chRange:InlineShapes.
chShapes:AddPicture(opsysfile).

Behavior:

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