CaptureAsLongText

Capture a multi-line address in one field

October 3, 2009 XpressDox Cookbook
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You may not want to have to define 3 or 4 or some maximum number of address line data elements, and have the user capture them one at a time, and still provide conditional formatting logic to suppress any empty data elements. XpressDox document assembly supports this by the concept of long text fields.

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The CaptureAsLongText Command

October 1, 2009 Help

CaptureAsLongText and InsertFormattedText. The data capture interview will provide a multi-line control into which the data for the data element can be captured: <<CaptureAsLongText(PropertyDescription)>> If this long text is included in the document via a simple fillpoint (in the above example: <<PropertyDescription>>), then any line breaks which the user may have typed, say by pressing [...]

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Data capture in XpressDox

September 30, 2009 User Reference
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XpressDox has been designed to fill marked-up templates in two general situations: The first is when data is captured and stored as part of an application; and, the second is to assist users who use the system within Microsoft® Office Word to produce standard documents.

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