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Karthik Sankar Displaying the content of the Word Document in a Visualforce Page?
I am having a word document stored in Document object. I need to retrieve only
the content and display it in a VF page.
I have written the query in a controller class to get the body of the document. The body is returning as Blob data type. Then I am converting the Blob to String using ToString() method in Apex.
Code for your reference:
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Document d = [Select body, bodyLength, ContentType, Url from Document where id = :'01580000000n17L'];
Blob b = d.body;
String s = b.toString();
But the output is showing as more encoded characters along with the content. These encoded characters, I suppose, are meta-data for the word document like font properties, alignment, etc. I need only the content of the document.
In the same way, if I use a Notepad file to get the content, it is working fine and I get only the content.
Please tell me a way to get the content only from a Word document without the encoded characters.
I have written the query in a controller class to get the body of the document. The body is returning as Blob data type. Then I am converting the Blob to String using ToString() method in Apex.
Code for your reference:
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Document d = [Select body, bodyLength, ContentType, Url from Document where id = :'01580000000n17L'];
Blob b = d.body;
String s = b.toString();
But the output is showing as more encoded characters along with the content. These encoded characters, I suppose, are meta-data for the word document like font properties, alignment, etc. I need only the content of the document.
In the same way, if I use a Notepad file to get the content, it is working fine and I get only the content.
Please tell me a way to get the content only from a Word document without the encoded characters.
Hmmm.. not sure if this will work but give it a shot any way..
If you output the content using an outputTextArea for example try
<apex:outputTextArea escape="false" value="{!myContent}" ..../>
Cheers,
Wes
Hi,
<apex:outputTextArea> tag is not available in VF component.
Do you have any other suggestion?
Silly me, it should be <apex:outputText ... and then the rest.
Sorry about that.
Wes
Hi,
I am using <apex:outputText> only for display in the VF page.
Blob value of the content is showing as: core.filemanager.FileBlobValue@13baffc
I am converting this blob value to string using myBlob.toString()
The output of the above code is showing as more encoded characters with the content in between them.
The content with encoded characters is too large to show here.
I tried splitting the content only but there is no logic involved in it.
Please let me know if anything comes up in your mind.
Hi Guys,
I have same issue. Any workarround, let me know. Thank you so much, so much, so much
Suzan
hi,
i am not sure if we can read the content of the blob by converting to string but we can download it for sure.
ex:<a href="{!URLFOR($Action.Attachment.Download, attachment.id)}">Download ME</a>
if we can use a javascript to directly process this and get us the document may be we can use some document viewer which is installed in the browser to display that.:manhappy:
Any solution for this, please?
try to remove the line break from the string ( \n , \r , \n\r)