[Solved] Selecting and Updating a Text Field

[macroman25]

I have a field:
Type: Variable
Name: ClientName
Format: Text

The field is already within the .odt document, with the default value set to "Name"
I would like to update this value to a given client name (string value) "John Smith"

I have already checked out a lot of documentation and having no luck...
I imagined it would be something along these lines:

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	NameField = Doc.getTextFieldMasters().getByName("ClientName")
	NameField.Content = "JohnSmith"

[FJCC]

There may be a better way but this seems to do the job.

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oTextFields = ThisComponent.getTextFields()
Enum = oTextFields.createEnumeration()
While Enum.hasMoreElements()
	oField = Enum.nextElement()
	If oField.TextFieldMaster.Name = "ClientName" Then
		oField.TextFieldMaster.Content = "John Smith"
	End If
Wend

[macroman25]

Thanks FJCC
For some reason I get "Property or method not found: Content."
any ideas?

[FJCC]

We may be using different field types. Can you upload a document with an example of your field? Just a little dummy text and the field will be enough.

[macroman25]

Attached.

[macroman25]

I can probably use a different field type if that's easier...

[FJCC]

The code I originally posted worked for a field inserted with Insert -> Fields -> Other -> Variables Tab -> Type=User field. Try using that. I can't find a way to change the value of the field type you used.

[macroman25]

OK Thanks, will give that a try... annoying that they can be so different...

[macroman25]

Thanks FJCC - works a treat now!

[bkr]

There may be a better way but this seems to do the job.

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oTextFields = ThisComponent.getTextFields()
Enum = oTextFields.createEnumeration()
While Enum.hasMoreElements()
	oField = Enum.nextElement()
	If oField.TextFieldMaster.Name = "ClientName" Then
		oField.TextFieldMaster.Content = "John Smith"
	End If
Wend

There is a better way - you can call each field by name using the TextFieldMasters property of the document as described here: https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/com ... sters.html

the TextFieldMasters property is a collection that implements the XNameAccess interface (which means you can use the

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getByName()

method to retrieve the instance then set the value with a method like the following:

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    def set_field(self, document, name, value):
        field = document.TextFieldMasters.getByName('com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.User.{0}'.format(name))
        field.Content = value

note that the name of the text field needs to include the namespace (hence the string formatting). If you keep getting

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NoSuchElementException

s, you can use the following code to print out the contents of the collection:

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for field_name in document.TextFieldMasters.getElementNames():
    print(field_name)