Editing Rich Text Blocks

A Rich Text Block will be opened in the ITP/Model Development Kit, which is based on Microsoft Word. The Rich Text Block ribbon offers functionality to work with Rich Text Blocks. For Microsoft Word 2007 and up you can find this menu in the ribbon Add-Ins.

Note

You need at least version 3.5.4 of ITP/Server to run models using Rich Text Blocks.

ITP Toolbox

Fields can be added in Rich Text Blocks using the ITP Toolbox. They are represented by Microsoft Word merge fields. Just like ordinary text, these Fields are subject to any form of layout. Only layout that is applied to the content of the merge field will be ignored by ITP.

The ITP Toolbox is adjusted for Rich Text Block because its function differs from the ITP Toolbox that is meant for model development. The ITP Toolbox for model development is described in The ITP/MDK Microsoft Word menu. In the ITP Toolbox for Rich Text Blocks:

• The tab listing the frequently used functions is not present.
• There is only one action to insert a Field.
• Due to technical reasons, drag-and-drop functionality is not available.

Field Validation

The set of fields that can be added to a Rich Text Block is limited. The Field Sets that are available for a Rich Text Block can be configured in the ITP/MDK Repository. Still, the situation may occur in which a Rich Text Block contains a Field that is not part of this set. This may occur due to changes to this configuration or due to direct editing of a Microsoft Word merge field representing a Field. In order to avoid the persistence of this problematic situation, the ITP/Model Development Kit will validate the Fields in the Rich Text Block at two points:

• Whenever a Rich Text Block is opened.
• Whenever a Rich Text Block is saved. This may also occur during closing of the document, which will be cancelled if the validation runs into unknown Fields.

Any unknown Fields, i.e. Fields that are not part of the set of available Fields, will be reported as Microsoft Word comments. These Microsoft Word comments will not be updated until the next time the Field validation is executed.

MDK Help

ITP/Model Development Kit help opens the ITP/Model Development Kit Help.