ARIS Support - Link to a specific section inside a word document

Tom Einar Nyberg on August 20, 2009

I have the following requirement - can you link to inside a specific section in a Word document when you click on the link in ARIS? Fex- automatically jump to a specific bookmark when its opened.

I have managed to do it outside of ARIS by using a command statement , a macro inside the document and a bookmark. in the command prompt you can f.ex write winword document.doc /mMacro .

But I can not get this functionallity to work in ARIS.

You have a "Parameter1" attribute that belongs to the "Link1" attribute, shouldnt it to be possible to put this type of information there ?

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Uwe Roediger on August 21, 2009 - 11:42

Did you try to use the parameter attribute? This attribute is part of our methodology exactly for this purpose. If it does not work, what happens concretely? Do you get an error message?

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Tom Einar Nyberg Author on August 22, 2009 - 21:40 as Reply to Pierre Pilven

What I would like is to provide the bookmark as a paramater, but that doesnt work. The word documents just opens as normal (page 1)

I have managed to use the paratemer to launch a macro , but the problem is - I then have to set up lots of macros in word and the user gets prompted by the macro-window when word opens.

I know i HTML code you are able to provide #bookmark when you link to word documents to link to specific bookmarks, but I cant get it to work using the paramter attrubte

Do you have any idea - it would be greatly appreciated as I see this as a reocurring problem

Tom

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Uwe Roediger on August 25, 2009 - 12:51

Hi Tom,

we do not have experience with this scenario, but we do not see a reason why it does not work. Could you provide us a sample document including the macro and the working command line syntax? In this case we could reproduce the problem and solve it.

Please send the information directly to me: uwe.roediger@ids-scheer.com

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Uwe

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Juergen Fechner on September 1, 2009 - 09:53

It seems, that MS Word.exe does not have the possibility to read jump parameters in that way that the user can set " Go to page 3 " or " Go to chapter 3"

The jump to a specific bookmark in a MS Word document can be executed by using a MS Word macro:

Example for a macro:

******************************************************

Sub Jump()

Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="BMTEST"

With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks

.DefaultSorting = wdSortByName

.ShowHidden = False

End With

End Sub

******************************************************

MS Word provides a switch that enables you to execute a macro from a command line. This switch is /m<macroname>, e.g. /mJump. This works if you are using this switch from a windows desktop and enter the following string into the command line:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\winword.exe" d:\temp\test.doc /mJump

But if you enter d:\temp\test.doc into the object attribute Link1 and the switch /mJump into the corresponding Parameter it fails. I tried several options with double quotes and the string in the Link attribute, but nothing works.

As a bug of MS it only works, when you write first WINWORD.EXE, only DOC does not work. So you must use: "Winword.exe document.doc /mJump", not "document.doc /mJump"

Juergen

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Richard Jeffrey on August 10, 2011 - 23:16

I have exactly the same requirement. Being able to enter a address in the Link Attribute that includes a Word Bookmark. So if someone finds a bullet proof way of doing this I'd love to hear about it.

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Herman Maris on November 22, 2016 - 11:56

Hello,

is there any progress in this topic. I have the same question: link an activity to a certain bookmark in a word document.

Herman Maris

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