XpressDox Cookbook

Working with Section Breaks

October 5, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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Section breaks are used in Microsoft Word®  to separate different parts of the same document which typically have different attributes.  Such as different orientation (landscape or portrait) and different headers and/or footers. This becomes an issue for the template author when one or more sections are included (or excluded) from the document according to some [...]

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Working with Page Breaks

October 5, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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Using a page break in a template is fairly straightforward, even when the page break is conditional. In other words, when the page break is to be included or excluded on the basis of an <<If>> command. For example: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. <<If(Type = ‘Long’)>>……………………………Page Break…………………………………………………. <<Else()>>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique [...]

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Configure a Data Source for a Database

October 4, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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Introduction XpressDox supports a number of database formats as “standard” data sources. These include Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel (yes, the spreadsheet is regarded as a database), Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and then any database which has an ODBC driver installed for it. Databases in general have a variety of ways of exposing themselves to the [...]

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Tips and Hints using the Rule Command

October 4, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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The Rule command can be included into many templates, and hard rules can be softened.

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Moving around in XpressDox: The Explorer

September 14, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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“If I were going to Limerick, I wouldn’t be starting here”, an Irishman told a tourist. Yet it can be like that with the Microsoft file and folder explorers, which often enough open far away from where you want to be. The XpressDox Explorer solves this problem for you.

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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 repeated elements – 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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