Template Refreshes After Document Generation

[punyakrishna]

Description: After generating a document, the template refreshes unexpectedly. This behavior occurs without any API failures.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Use the MS Office API to generate a document based on the template.
2. Delete the existing table after generating the new table.
3. Observe the behavior after the document is generated.

Expected Behavior: The template should remain unchanged after the document is generated.

Actual Behavior: The template refreshes unexpectedly after the document is generated. If the line that deletes the existing table is commented out, the document contains both the generated and created tables, and the template does not refresh.

Additional Information:

• No APIs are failing during this process.
• This issue is inconsistent and does not occur every time.

Environment:

• Operating System: Windows

Notes:

• The issue might be related to deleting the existing table after the new table is generated. When this deletion line is commented out, the template does not refresh, but the document contains both tables.

Code:

  await Word.run(async (context: Word.RequestContext) => {
    const documentTables: Word.TableCollection = context.document.body.tables.load();
    await context.sync();
    for (let index = 0; index < tableData.length; index++) {
      const existingTable: Word.Table = documentTables.items[index];
      const updatedTable: string[][] = tableData[index];

      if (updatedTable.length > 1 && updatedTable[0].length < updatedTable[1].length) {
        for (let k = updatedTable[0].length; k < updatedTable[1].length; k++) {
          updatedTable[0].push("");
        }
      }

      // Load the table rows
      existingTable.load("rows/items");
      await context.sync();

      const insertedTable = existingTable.insertTable(
        updatedTable.length,
        updatedTable[0].length,
        Word.InsertLocation.after,
        updatedTable
      );

      insertedTable.styleBuiltIn = Word.BuiltInStyleName.gridTable4;
      insertedTable.alignment = "Left";

      await context.sync();

      if (documentTables.items.length > index && existingTable) {
        existingTable.delete();
        await context.sync();
      }
    }
  });

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[shanshanzheng-dev]

Hi @punyakrishna Thanks for reporting this issue. In order to repro your problem better, could you provide the whole code if possible? Thanks.