Difficulty using merge fields for bullet list.

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I am using Gembox in a .NET project. I want to use bullets point to display a list of numbers I have. So I use merge fields for this bullet “PhoneNumberList”. But when I execute merge fields, the result is still only 1 bullet as before. Please see the picture. Please let me know if my usage is correct and how to fix it. Thank you very much.

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Please help me. Everyone

[mario.gembox]

Hi,

List items are paragraph elements, so you will need to generate multiple paragraphs to achieve the desired result.

For example, you could have a “PhoneNumberList” merge range:

Then you could use the following data source:

var document = DocumentModel.Load("input.docx");

var source = new
{
    PhoneNumberList = new[]
    {
        new { Value = "01117282282" },
        new { Value = "09991812723" },
        new { Value = "09897226511" }
    }
};

document.MailMerge.Execute(source);

document.Save("output.docx");

And the result would be:

---

Or if you want to use your current approach:

You’ll need to customize the mail merge process.
For example, try something like this:

var document = DocumentModel.Load("input.docx");

document.MailMerge.FieldMerging += (sender, e) =>
{
    if (!e.IsValueFound || e.Value is null)
        return;

    var allInlines = e.Inlines.ToArray();
    e.Inlines.Clear();

    var currentInlines = e.Inlines;
    var paragraph = e.Field.Parent as Paragraph;

    for (int i = 0; i < allInlines.Length; i++)
    {
        var specialCharacter = allInlines[i] as SpecialCharacter;
        if (specialCharacter is null || specialCharacter.CharacterType != SpecialCharacterType.LineBreak)
        {
            currentInlines.Add(allInlines[i]);
        }
        else
        {
            var clonedParagraph = paragraph.Clone(false);
            paragraph.ParentCollection.Insert(paragraph.ParentCollection.IndexOf(paragraph) + 1, clonedParagraph);
            currentInlines = clonedParagraph.Inlines;
            paragraph = clonedParagraph;
        }
    }
};

var source = new
{
    PhoneNumberList =
@"01117282282
09991812723
09897226511"
};

document.MailMerge.Execute(source);

document.Save("output.docx");

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Mario