Topic: Trying to use custom paragraph styles as headings included in table of contents

Posted by account33640 · 18-01-2016 - 19:50

I don't know if I am misunderstanding the array $legend component for addTableContents or misusing the createParagraphStyle methods (or whatever else I have wrong). The result is that custom paragraph styles with an orange font intended to be used as headings (and therefore appear in the table of contents) get created at 1/2 the intended font size, and only one of my two headings gets included into the table of contents. My custom styles never show in Word editor. Using trial version & MS Word for Mac 2011. My test script is:

<?php
// Custom Style Headings with Table of Contents
require_once 'classes/CreateDocx.inc';

define ('ORANGE', 'E06E1E');

// new report object
$docx = new CreateDocx();

// 2 Custom Heading Styles and 1 for normal text
$style1 = array('outlineLvl' => 1,
                   'jc' => 'left',
                   'spacingBottom' => 100,
                   'font' => 'Times New Roman',
                   'bold' => true,
                   'sz' => 16,
                   'color' => ORANGE);
$docx->createParagraphStyle('style1', $style1);

$style2 = array('outlineLvl' => 2,
                   'jc' => 'left',
                   'spacingBottom' => 100,
                   'font' => 'Times New Roman',
                   'bold' => true,
                   'sz' => 13,
                   'color' => ORANGE);
$docx->createParagraphStyle('style2', $style2);

$pLeftStyle = array('jc' => 'left', 'spacingBottom' => 100);
$docx->createParagraphStyle('pLeft', $pLeftStyle);

// Table of Contents

$tocOptions = array('autoUpdate' => false, 'displayLevels' => '1-2');
$tocLegend = array('text' => 'Update this Table of Contents using <control> click -> Update Field',
                   'pStyle' => 'pLeft',
                   'font' => 'Times New Roman');

$docx->addText('Table of Contents', array('bold' => true, 'fontSize' => '14'));
$docx->addTableContents($tocOptions, $tocLegend);

// New Headings to include in the Table of Contents - 2 levels
$docx->addBreak(array('type'=>'page'));
$docx->addText('First Heading1', array('pStyle' => 'style1'));
$docx->addText('First Heading2', array('pStyle' => 'style2'));

// Paragraph 1
$text = 'This is the first paragraph.';
$docx->addText($text, $pLeft);

$docx->createDocx('trytoc');

Posted by admin · 19-01-2016 - 09:01

Hello,

We recommend you to use the fontSize option when you add the text or duplicate the value of sz. This is:

$style1 = array('outlineLvl' => 1,
                    'jc' => 'left', 
                    'spacingBottom' => 100, 
                    'font' => 'Times New Roman', 
                    'bold' => true, 
                    'sz' => 32,
                    'color' => ORANGE);

$docx->addText('First Heading1', array('pStyle' => 'style1', 'fontSize' => '16'));

About displayLeves, please use 1-3 to show them:

$tocOptions = array('autoUpdate' => false, 'displayLevels' => '1-3');

Some default Word styles may be showing and they need to be set in this way.

About this chunk of code:

$text =  'This is the first paragraph.';
$docx->addText($text, $pLeft);

the $pLeft variable isn't declared.

Regards.

Posted by account33640 · 19-01-2016 - 15:30

Thanks! These changes did solve my formatting challenge.

I do note that the paragraph styles created above never show in Word when editing the document. I haven't been successful trying to importStyles from a template document with 'replace' specified either. I will presume this has something to do with trial version style defaults that seem to be named 'xx PHPDOCX'.

Posted by admin · 19-01-2016 - 15:38

Hello,

There're options to show and hide custom styles. About importStyles it should work fine.

As the trial version can't be debugged, after you've purchased a license please write to contact[at]phpdocx.com and we'll be able to help you with your template.

Regards.

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