Hello all,
I'm new in this section and my case is to load building blocks from outside when opening word from another application.
how can I pass a list of building blocks when opening word from a dot net project?
thanks in advance.

As far as I know, building blocks need to be stored inside a template and can't be 'loaded' from a SQL database. You could create building blocks from a SQL database though but perhaps that is not a logical thing to do.

Perhaps you need to explain more fully what it is you are trying to do.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

we are working on a system that uses Word as a reporting tool. we need to pass different building blocks each time we will use Word. am I clear now?

Yeah yeah nah.

Perhaps we have a terminology issue. In Word, a 'building block' is a range of content stored inside a template labelled with a type, category and name. It can then be inserted into a document via the GUI (Insert>Quickparts for instance) or via VBA like the following
ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate.BuildingBlockTypes (1).Categories("CategoryName").BuildingBlocks("BBN ame").Insert Where:=Selection.Range, RichText:=True

Are you talking about the same 'Building Block' or are you using the name 'building block' as a term for either unformatted or rich text coming from a database query?

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thanks for your help,
what I mean the dropdown come from insert > quick parts > Autotext
I need to load some saved text differently each time I use Word according to some condition from my side.
thanks,

I don't know if this forum has many .NET specialists, so pretty much all examples here are VBA which you would need to adapt to .NET. My last post above for example shows you how to insert a building block from the attached template in VBA.

I think perhaps you might be interested in mapped Content Controls which probably better aligns with getting field data from SQL and putting it into the right places in the Word document. Mapped CCs can be included in building blocks to allow you to customise document content at multiple levels.

A couple of threads worth exploring are:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...challenge.html
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...-document.html

If you are using mapped CCs to your own embedded xml file, it is relatively simple to replace that xml file from sql database content.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia