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Christina A. Odom — Developing SharePoint Solutions

Modular Document Generation: A Series

Posted on June 10, 2009 - Filed Under Code Girl

I give an academic exercise:  a simple Form Server application based in MOSS that collects weekly status reports for a project.  (At time of the implementation, the user base did not have Office 2007, InfoPath or Exchange) The owners of this application want a couple of extras based on users’ response:

• Can`t edit offline
• Limited formatting options
• Can`t paste in graphics
• No spell checking
• No ‘draft’ mode

I know what you’re thinking, “why not use code-behind”.  Lets say business-wise, it wasn’t an option at this point.  The user base recently received Office 2007 and now the business owners want to look to upgrade their application to utilize Word 2007 and OpenXML format as well as create a few extra documents to better capture the project’s documentation lifecycle. However, several of these documents have pieces of re-usable information in it.  Oh, and the business owners want to see everything in SharePoint while the users only will accept working within Microsoft Word.




So prepare yourselves for a series of blogposts.

• Converting Rich Text InfoPath forms into Word 2007 documents.
• Displaying Word 2007 documents in SharePoint (with images & objects)
• Custom Xml in Word 2007 documents:  A Primer for Modular Document Generation
• Modular Document Generation:  One Approach

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