WEXP - Word template pbl with OBJECT TEMPLATE

Craig_Cordrey - Fri May 20 04:54:35 EDT 2011
I encountered the same problem when I first started using WEXP. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of the forums at that time, so I quickly gave up searching for a solution and decided to work round this by defining my Object Template as a table with two cells - one for the Object Id and one for the Object Text. This has worked well for me, with the added advantage that the text is all aligned, etc. if you like that kind of thing.

I don't know if there's a real answer to this issue, but the table approach at least offers a workaround.

Peter_Albert - Fri May 20 05:08:33 EDT 2011
Hm, strange. I quickly gave it a try and defined a template in the way you described it. It perfectly works as expected, i.e. no extra return added. If you want, you can post your .dot file and I see if I can reproduce your error with it.

Regards,

Peter

jlnddn - Fri May 20 06:58:13 EDT 2011
OK thanks.
Here is the kind of template I'm using.
If you find out what's wrong that would be great! That's really weird I don't know what's happening.

Peter_Albert - Fri May 20 07:34:50 EDT 2011
Well, with your template I have the opposite problem, i.e. there are not enough returns: the second requiremend ID (in curly brackets) does not appear in a new line; the exported document looks like

...
{foo} this is a requirement.{bar} this is the second requirement.
...

Looking at the bookmarked template, this is exactly what one would expect, as the template does not contain a return neither.

The fact that you do not observe this makes me wonder whether you probably have the extra returns in your "Object Text": could you please check whether your "Object Text" probably has an empty line at the start and at the end? This would perfectly explain your results.

Regards,

Peter