Word templates: Is it possible to have a repeating section control inside another repeating section control?

[Anonymous]

I recently began an investigation project on the Microsoft Word Populate Word Template feature, for this example we used a list of recipes.

On my investigation one of my challenges was to see how dynamic we could make a template. Using the repeating section control we were able to populate tables dynamically which was crucial for the investigation. In a following step we wanted to list items inside a table using a similar method.

For this test we used tried to list ingredients inside a column, inside this column we created a 1x1 table which we also set up as a  repeating section. The final result looked like this:

The end result filled all fields but the Ingredients column correctly:

On the flow itself this is what we are doing in order to fetch the ingredient details:


And after all is fetched for an item I'm appending to the following array:


My overall question is if this approach is feasible. If so, what am I doing wrong?

[v-litu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

It's unfortunate that repeating section control inside another repeating section control is not supported on Populate word template currently.

As a workaround, you could use join() function or action to convert the "Ingredient" array into a string separated by ";"

For Example:

join(["Soda","Rum","whisky"],";")

it will return "Soda; Rum; whisky"

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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[Anonymous]

Yes that was my alternative.

On a similar matter, is it also impossible to place images inside repeating section controls?

[v-litu-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

As far as I know, images are not supported inside repeating section controls.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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