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Version 3.11.0 Release

September 27, 2011 New in XpressDox
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2011-09-27 Version 3.11.0 <<ChooseFromFile()>> permits empty “display data element name” (defaults to the first one) when also including a data element name prefix. The XpressDox SDK has been released.  This facilitates embedding XpressDox into another application and permitting display of the XpressDox interview, and application of XpressDox configuration.  The SDK can be used on PCs [...]

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Version 3.9.3 (2011-07-27)

July 27, 2011 New in XpressDox
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2011-07-27 Version 3.9.3 Functionality has been added to enable XpressDox site supervisors to customise the Shared (or Office) Folders settings in the XpressDox Explorer on a per-department or even per-user basis.  This is done by assigning a new property to a data source (only in the Shared Settings configuration) which causes data from that data [...]

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Version 3.9.2 (2011-07-19)

July 19, 2011 New in XpressDox
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2011-07-19 Version 3.9.2 When data is included into the data set, the sequence in which this happens is: Data from Standard Data Items in the configuration; Data from data sources configured as “Use for all templates”; Data from <<IncludeDataSourceData()>> commands. Prior to this release, step c. was performed before the other two. The data source [...]

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Version 3.9.1 (2011-07-07)

July 7, 2011 New in XpressDox
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Version 3.9.1 contains some bug fixes as well as the following enhancements: <<LinkToDataSource()>> can apply to a <<ChooseFromDataSource()>> command in order to permit intuitive handling of highly-normalised databases. Any number of <<LinkToDataSource()>> commands can apply to the same data element. The <<OptimizeParsing(Off)>> command is implicitly issued for multi-language templates.

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Version 3.9.0 (2011-07-06)

July 5, 2011 New in XpressDox
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New features in Version 3.9.0: Filling PDF Forms.  This works with existing PDF Forms which have PDF Form Fields defined in them.  The XpressDox feature assists the template author in mapping the PDF Form Fields to either data elements which are typically captured as part of running an XpressDox template.  The PDF Form is filled [...]

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Version 3.8.1 (2011-06-07)

June 6, 2011 New in XpressDox
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New features released in Version 3.8 are: Integration with Force.com (SalesForce.com).  Template authors can configure a Force.com database as a data source.  The Search interfaces do not work yet (mainly because Force.com does not support the “paging” concept), but the data source can be used via the new syntax for <<ChooseFromDataSource()>> which disallows the search [...]

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Version 3.7.0 (2011-04-18)

April 18, 2011 New in XpressDox
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New features with XpressDox Version 3.7.0 are: <<Script()>> and <<ScriptEnd()>>, if on separate paragraphs, must be the only text on their paragraph.  XpressDox will now issue an error if this is not the case. When XpressDox paints a template, <<Comment()>> commands will be colored a different color to other fields.  The default comment color is [...]

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Version 3.6.0 (2011-03-31)

March 30, 2011 New in XpressDox
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An underscore in the data element name is converted to a space when the data element name is used as a caption in the interview. The Command Editor and the XpressDox My first template document are loaded automatically the first 3 times that XpressDox is loaded. The <<Define()>> command is introduced – enables definition of [...]

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Version 3.5.0 (2011-03-04)

March 4, 2011 New in XpressDox
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Templates coded in some earlier document assembly formats will now run without change (except for conversion to XpressDox template format, i.e. Word 2003 XML), as long as the fillpoints are “simple”.  A “simple” fillpoint is one which has no functions or commands or conditional assembly, e.g %[Name], «PostalCode» .  Also, the fillpoint name (i.e. data [...]

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Version 3.4.1 (2011-01-22)

January 22, 2011 New in XpressDox
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The <<ChooseFromFile()>> command includes a new parameter which is a prefix to be applied to the data element names which are defined in the file.  This enables a template author to use the same file to choose different data elements. <<MergeTemplate()>> will accept a hard-coded file name (in quotes), or a data element name (the [...]

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