July 7, 2011
XpressDox Cookbook
In trouble shooting a template, you need to know the data element names. Obviously. But looking at an interview, the data element names are not always obvious, especially if you have used <<Caption>>s. Another situation is with ChooseFromDataSource, and ChooseFromFile (and the Include… variants of those commands), where XpressDox generates a special data element name. [...]
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July 5, 2011
XpressDox Cookbook
Working with LinkToDataSource – example with a highly normalised data base. You need to access a database which has the following structure: Table “Contact” ContactFirstName ContactLastName ContactTitle Address City Region ContactTypeId Table “ContactType” TypeId TypeDescription TypeCode You can see that the actual value of TypeDescription is not kept in the Contact table, but a link [...]
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ChooseFromDataSource,
LinkToDataSource
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