Wednesday 6 July 2016

Adding Dynamic Images from a web Service

ok this gave me quite the headache.

i had a task of adding a dynamic 2d barcode to one of my RTF templates using a web service , where i could read a URL in my XML. call the web service and get back a nicely formatted barcode.

I found lots of examples using word 2007 but ofc we were using word 2010 and the methods described didnt work . so after a lot of head scratching , crying and chicken bothering I found the following

in typical Microsoft fashion they have made it a bit more aqward in word 2010 (just to annoy us developers I think).

instead of adding a dummy image to resolve this I needed to 
1. click on the developer tab
2.go to legacy tools and select image Active x control
3. right click on the image and select the alternate text tab
4. enter url:{} and inside the {} enter the absolute path to the tag that holds the URL to where the image was generated from the web service  .

trust Microsoft to make things ten times more difficult :) 

Friday 17 June 2016

Hey BIP People  Please Say a Massive HI to our newest Band1to the fantastic Chandran who is joining us to help share the BIP goodness welcome to  BIP Band1tos Chandran and thank you for your contributions and support