You are not allowed to edit this selection because it is protected

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I am getting the COMException "You are not allowed to edit this
selection because it is protected" when I call InsertXML with the
OpenXML for a drawing object in a cell of a table - sometimes.

Any idea why? And what do I do to work around this?

thanks - dave

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[David Thielen]

I think I figured out what is causing this - but still need help to
fix. Create 3 content controls in a row. Then delete the middle one
and insert a drawing at that location. That causes this error.

When I do this, I take the range from the deleted content control and
create a range where the Start & End is set to the Start of the range
of the content control just deleted. Clearly that is wrong.

How do I get the range of the spot between what is now 2 content
controls to insert a drawing at?

thanks - dave

Hi;

I am getting the COMException "You are not allowed to edit this
selection because it is protected" when I call InsertXML with the
OpenXML for a drawing object in a cell of a table - sometimes.

Any idea why? And what do I do to work around this?

thanks - dave

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

 

[Ji Zhou]

Hello Dave,

I think we can use the first ContentControl.Range.End+1 with the second
ContentControl.Range.Start-1 to construct a range. Then we can do the
InsertXML on that range object.

Does this work for your scenario?


Best regards,
Ji Zhou - MSFT
Microsoft Online Community Support

 

[David Thielen]

That works - need the -1 for fields too. But it does scare me to just
blindly subtract 1.

thanks - dave

Hello Dave,

I think we can use the first ContentControl.Range.End+1 with the second
ContentControl.Range.Start-1 to construct a range. Then we can do the
InsertXML on that range object.

Does this work for your scenario?


Best regards,
Ji Zhou - MSFT
Microsoft Online Community Support

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

 

[Ji Zhou]

It is not blindly to subtract 1. As we discussed in another thread
"ContentControl.Range.ContentControls.Count returns 0", the
ContentControl.Range represents the inner contents of the content control.
So if we want to get a range which contains the content control, we use
Range(ContentControl.Range.Start-1, ContentControl.Range.End+1).

Based on this, it would not be difficult to understand why we use the first
ContentControl.Range.End+1 with the second ContentControl.Range.Start-1 to
construct a range here.


Best regards,
Ji Zhou - MSFT
Microsoft Online Community Support