The Capture Tool can be used to capture Word output fields, which provide a handle for text sections, containers, images, and lists that you would like to control in your configurator output. These output fields can then be controlled by Snap rules to determine what content is placed into the document during a build. You can control text, images, tables, lists, and turn sections on or off.
To Add an Output Field
First, begin capturing a word output. To add an output field, click on the button that corresponds to the type of output field at the top of the capture tool. This will add an output field to the list below the buttons.
To insert the output field into the document at a specific location, set your cursor to the desired location in the document, then select the output field in the list of the capture tool and click 'add to doc'. All word output fields end up being some kind of content control in the document.
The different output field types are briefly covered below. For more detailed information on the word output fields, see the Word Output help.
| Field Type | Description |
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| Text | Text fields can contain any rich text set by the output rules. For example, you might include a description that the output rules dynamically build into your word document. |
| Container | Container fields contain any word content (including other output fields). They are useful for when you want to include or not include an entire section of your document based on what selections were made in a configurator. |
| Image | Image fields can be set to show any image, even dynamic renderings of the 3D scene the user was viewing while using the configurator. |
| List |
Whenever you have an unknown number of items that you want to show in a table or list, then this is the output field to use. What you place in the container of the list field in the document turns into an item template that gets repeated for each item in the source list. Learn more about word lists. To use a word list with a table, where you get one row for each item in the source array:
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For more information
- Click your way through a step-by-step process of creating a word document in this how-to document.