Is it possible to reproduce multichoice column as checkboxes in word with DocGen ?

How to display checkboxes in a document generated by Nintex Workflow ?

Context :

Natively Document Generation and Nintex Workflow are unable to fill Microsoft Word checkboxes.

This article will show you how to do it :

Solution :

The tricks to place a Microsoft Word Quick Part into your document template at the tagging step.

This Quick Part will be able to show you checkboxes instead of boolean text value.

1. Create a single line of text variable :
2. Add a conditional branch connected to your boolean column (Yes / No) :
3. Set the workflow variable previously created to 0 or 1 (in function of your boolean column value - 0 for False and 1 for True) :
4. Add your Document Generation action and configure it to get your document template and set your destination :
5. Tag your template by adding a Quick Part instead of using Nintex Document Tagger (Only for checkboxes fields) :
   
6. Select the If condition and add following test : IF <<Variable_myBool>> = 1 "þ" "o" with "þ" and "o" corresponding to the checkboxes special character of the Windings font.
7. Update the font to Windings of the result after click ok on the previous screen, save and publish your workflow.

Sample result :

Thank for reading this article, and hope this can help you.

PS : You can adapt some steps of this article to be able to do the samething with radio buttons or multiple select.

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