Document per Repeated Item – with Filter

July 15, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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The Document per Repeated Item feature can also be filtered so that only those repeated items fulfilling a particular set of criteria will have a document prepared.

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Working with Repeating Data – Part 2

June 28, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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A common issue with repeating data is the requirement to refer to the items within the list by their ordinal values.

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The CaptureLater Command

June 24, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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When a template is run, XpressDox constructs a data capture interview which is guided by the XpressDox merge fields which are coded in the template. The CaptureLater command is one of the commands which can be used to influence this.

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Adding comments to a template

June 5, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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Comments can be added to a template either within the body of a command, or using the Comment command.

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The Command Editor

May 11, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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The Command Editor empowers the template author by presenting an alphabetic list of all the XpressDox commands, with functionality which provides wizards for completion of the command as well as supplying examples of commands.

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Concatenating strings

April 24, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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There are times when it is necessary to concatenate the values of data elements, variables and/or hard-coded strings together to form a value which is then stored in a variable. The concat function does this.

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Test for Any or All repeated items meeting criteria

March 26, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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It is sometimes necessary to test whether at least one (Any) of a group of repeated items meets a particular set of criteria, and also to test whether All of the group meet those criteria. This article discusses how to construct those tests.

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Trouble shooting missing pictures in documents

March 15, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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Normally pictures, logos, etc., are handled without problems by XpressDox. But sometimes the pictures go missing from the merged document and are replaced by a red X in a box. This recipe discusses why this can happen and gives some advice on how to correct the situation.

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Trouble shooting Conditional Capture

March 5, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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Conditional Capture can sometimes result in unexpected behaviour, where data elements either are unexpectedly removed from the data capture interview, or appear on the interviewwhen they shouldn’t. This recipe gives some tips on how to trouble shoot these situations.

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Trouble shooting Ends and Elses

March 5, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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In complex templates, the balancing of End and Else commands with the matching If or ForEach can become difficult. This recipe explains how to use the Template Painter and the Debug command.

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