Word OpenDoPE plug-in wishlist
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:01 am
These are the things I miss most about the otherwise very usable OpenDoPE Word plug-in (tested on Win XP 32 Bit, Office 2010), in my personal order of decreasing importance.
- The listboxes in the OpenDoPE task pane should scale according to pane size, and/or should be resizable inside the pane.
- Make contents repeat should allow to select an existing xpath expression, like with Make conditional.
- The xpath helper should allow to consolidate duplicate entries into one.
- The dataBinding/@prefixMappings attribute for the xsi namespace should be always added to make all xpath expressions available for all kinds of usages directly after creation.
- When adding a repeat/conditional around a binding, after adding the binding the cursor is inside the innermost SDT starting at the place, not at the beginning of the new SDT, where it should be.
- It should be possible to add a repeat/conditional to a table column. This can be implemented by adding an SDT to each column cell. Ideally, the plug-in would handle this transparently to the user.
- The table layout buttons select/current cell/row/column/table should be duplicated in the OpenDoPE pane.
- It should be possible to manually open the OpenDoPE task pane, as automatic recognition does not always work. Workaround: "Add CustomXML/No/Ok"
- It should be possible to set the data type of a binding SDT to plain text/date/image/list box/combo box.