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Version 3.9.0 (2011-07-06)

July 5, 2011 New in XpressDox

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

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

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

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

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

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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Version 3.3.2 (2011/01/06)

January 6, 2011 New in XpressDox

A bug which caused a conflict between <<Script()>> commands and <<BaseTemplate()>> has been fixed. At the same time, nesting of <<UseScript()>> within a <<Script()>> … <<ScriptEnd()>> is now supported The sample collections process demonstration templates have been updated, and can be downloaded.

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Version 3.3.1

December 24, 2010 New in XpressDox

Some new commands have been added: SetSavedDocumentNameVersioning can be used to inhibit the default merged document name versioning feature. In other words, by default if a merged document is saved and there is another document in the same folder with the same start to the name, then a tie-break digit is appended to the file [...]

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Version 3.2.0

November 30, 2010 New in XpressDox

Bi-(or multi-)lingualism can be accommodated in that a template producing a document in one language can have its Interview constructed for use by users of other languages.

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Version 3.1.2

October 21, 2010 New in XpressDox

Version 3.1.2 was released on Monday 25th October 2010. A considerable number of new commands and features have been added: <<CurrencySymbol()>> will insert the currency symbol as it defined in the Regional and Language Options in the Windows Control Panel. The <<Script()>>feature has been added: it enables the template author to define any chunk of [...]

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