Help with Scribe

[eddyb2]

Hi

 

I am using the most up to date version of scribe and successfully writing to a word document which is stored as a container.

 

My first query I very much doubt is possible.

I am trying to write to a table in Word. Using the substitute function works fine and replaces words I enter in the template with words from fields in the database.

But, is it possible for Scribe to add/delete rows from a table?

 

You see the problem is I don't know how many rows are going to be sent to Word from the database, so if I could tell FileMaker to create a row enter text, create the next row, enter text etc it would be great, but I doubt this is possible with Scribe is it?

 

The second query I hope there is an answer for.

 

Instead of writing to individual rows I am just writing to one large row in the template

So the template will have...

 

HEADER

 

ENTRY1

ENTRY2

ENTRY3

ENTRY4

 

Scribe replaces that text with entries in the database, again this is working fine, it just means my table is a header row followed by 1 long row with the data in. It's not ideal but it's the only workaround I have for now.

 

My question is, if there is nothing in ENTRY2 in the database I have set it to replace with "" so it removes the ENRTY2 text, but it leaves in it's place a blank line.

 

Is there any way I can tell scribe to replace ENTRY3 with "" but also remove the carriage return?

 

I tried replacing ENTRY3 followed by the carriage return character but then it did not replace anything

 

Many thanks

 

[wbasham]

Scribe does not currently have a feature to create rows in a .docx file.  There is also not a way for a string to be replaced by an empty string causing the carriage return to be removed.