Configure Datasource

Configure a Data Source for a Database

October 4, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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Introduction XpressDox supports a number of database formats as “standard” data sources. These include Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel (yes, the spreadsheet is regarded as a database), Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and then any database which has an ODBC driver installed for it. Databases in general have a variety of ways of exposing themselves to the [...]

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Use a SQL Server Data Source to include Customer information on a template

November 7, 2009 XpressDox Cookbook
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XpressDox can provide data from a large number of source databases. In particular, SQL Server databases can be configured as Data Sources in XpressDox, and this makes it possible to include data form those databases in templates. This Cookbook recipe shows how to configure a SQL Server Customer table, from the Microsoft sample database “AdventureWorks”, as a Data Source, and then goes on to explain how to reference that Data Source in a template.

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Version 2.2.9 (2009-11-02)

November 2, 2009 New in XpressDox
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This version of XpressDox Docussembly™ introduces the Data Source Name Mapping feature. In addition, numerous bug fixes have been applied.

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Managing contact details on letters

September 30, 2009 XpressDox Cookbook
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Ensuring correct contact details on a letterhead can be a huge problem in a large enterprise. XpressDox has a number of features which make it possible to overcome this problem. One of these is the Data Source Configuration feature together with the ChooseFromDataSource command.

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Make data source information available on all templates

September 30, 2009 XpressDox Cookbook
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Global information sometimes needs to be made available to all templates. Either all templates in an organisation, or all templates in a specific application or group of applications. XpressDox Docussembly™ makes this possible via the Configuration of a data source.

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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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Configuring data sources

September 29, 2009 User Reference
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The Data Sources facility provides a way for data captured into some other system to be merged into templates. For example, users may wish to be able to have address and other contact information from Microsoft® Outlook inserted into letters. This would be achieved by defining the Outlook Contacts as a Data Source.

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