Rowspan for tables?

[sancau]

Hello! Thanks to the conributers for a helpfull lib.

Is it possible to declare a rowspan in a dynamic table? Colspan works just fine so I assumed the rowspan tag should exist too but it seems it doesn't. Did a brief search of the source code. Found only the colspan function.

[elapouya]

Not possible yet...

[khanzf]

I figured out how to do this, but its definitely not through editing the file in MS/Libre Office.

1. In short you have to unzip the docx file, then edit word/document.xml file.
2. Find the beginning <w:tr> and ending </w:tr> that contains your row
3. Put the {% for %} and {% endfor %} between around that.

However, when I update/save the file in Libre, it seemed to remove those tags - probably because they break the XML schema, so Libre is repairing them. Wondering if there is some way in OpenXML to maintain those tags between saves? For example, a comment tag in the XML? Maybe with ?

But either way, its a manual process and outside of the normal scope of building a template.

[nikitagashkov]

For anyone wondering, there's built-in way to do this since version 0.4.6.

Just use {% vm %} tag to declare a rowspan.

See following examples for details: vertical_merge_tpl.docx vertical_merge.docx

[tsy19900929]

https://github.com/tsy19900929/docxtpl_dynamic_vertical_merging