Document Generation: Table of Contents does not update

[bruceb92825582]

In my testing of the Document Generation service, I have found that a Table of Contents specified in the Word template does not get updated after the JSON data merge and before the PDF is rendered. Is this a limitation of the service or is there a way to get the Table of Contents to update?  

[Raymond Camden]

Can you share an example of your source Word doc and data so I can confirm? If so I can file a bug.

[bruceb92825582]

Thanks for looking into this!

Word doc and sample output are attached.

Data:

{
"customerName": "Kane Miller",
"customerVisits": 100,
"itemsBought": [
{
"name": "Sprays",
"quantity": 50,
"amount": 100
},
{
"name": "Chemicals",
"quantity": 100,
"amount": 200
}
],
"totalAmount": 300,
"previousBalance": 50,
"lastThreeBillings": [
100,
200,
300
],
"photograph": "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mP88h8AAu0B9XNPCQQAAAAASUVORK5CYII="
}

[Raymond Camden]

So, from what I can see, TOCs in Word are *not* automagical. Ie, if you add a new heading in the Word client, it will *not* update the TOC, you have to do it yourself, so I think this is expected.

[bruceb92825582]

Where do we log feature requests as this would be very useful to have? I have used another Word merge API in the past and it had options to update TOC and other Fields (equivalent to Ctrl+A then F9 in Word).    

[Raymond Camden]

Yall can't - I can - and I'm doing so now.

[Steven C. Wong]

any updates on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Raymond Camden]

It has not been added. 

[Abhinandan27670966bxha]

@bruceb92825582  Can you please elaborate on the experience you got with another Word merge APIs. Does it open the word with a pop-up with message -"this document contains fields that may refer to other files. Do you want to update the fields in this document?". 

CC @Raymond Camden 

[bruceb92825582]

No message is popped-up.  See example from Documentation on Aspose site: https://docs.aspose.com/words/net/working-with-table-of-contents/#update-table-of-contents