ChooseFromDataSource

How do I know what the data element name is?

July 7, 2011 XpressDox Cookbook
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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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Working with LinkToDataSource

July 5, 2011 XpressDox Cookbook
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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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Control how the user can change data source data

September 30, 2009 XpressDox Cookbook
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Data from a data base can be inserted into a template. Perhaps this data has changed since it was last updated in the database, and the template-running-user is the one who knows about this change. It should be permissible for the user to change the data and have the change propagated back into the database.

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Getting data from data sources into a template

September 30, 2009 User Reference
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XpressDox Docussembly™ document assembly software makes it easy to perform advanced document assembly functions, like selecting a single instance of a repeated data element, including data from a data source, and using the ‘Refresh’ and ‘Save’ options with templates using data sources.

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