I need a post form to populate a word document

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Last updated by jamesT-5 5 years, 6 months ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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March 12, 2019 at 10:23 am #1213039

jamesT-5

I have a client that requires a form to auto-populate word documents (or any other kind of docs). I would like to use toolset for this but I can't find anything online that says this is possible.

The functionality we are trying to replicate is the same as this website:
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The process flow of this website involves the user:
- Buying the form for £12.99
- Filling out the form online
- This form then (somehow) populates multiple different word docs with the form info
- The employees print off the word docs and send them to the customer in the post

After I looked into this site I've realised that it doesn't have to be word documents exactly, just a doc that is printable.

Can toolset do this?

Thanks in advance

March 12, 2019 at 11:35 am #1213077

Nigel

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Toolset doesn't have any kind of integration to export posts as docs, whether Word docs or any other document file format.

Doing a quick google I found one plugin that uses some 3rd-party API for exporting Word docs, but nearly every result that came up was about the reverse, i.e. publishing WordPress content from docs.

From your description, do you actually need doc files?

"Employees print off the word docs and send them to the customer in the post."

Can't you just create templates for the posts formatted how you want, and then the employees just print the posts from the website?

May 15, 2019 at 3:00 pm #1244099

jamesT-5

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!