Working with Repeating Data – Part 2

June 28, 2010 XpressDox Cookbook
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A common issue with repeating data is the requirement to refer to the items within the list by their ordinal values.

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ForEach, List, Ordinal: Handling repeating data

October 10, 2009 User Reference
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The central issue with repeating data is that the number of repeated data elements is not known at the time the template is authored, and so XpressDox offers the ForEach, List and Ordinal commands as a way of processing a variable number of repeated data elements.

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Working with repeated elements

October 1, 2009 XpressDox Cookbook
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Repeating data elements presents a challenge to the template author, especially in formulating sentences and descriptions where the number of parties or invoice items or other repeating data is unknown at the time of authoring the template. This recipe in the Cookbook demonstrates how XpressDox meets this challenge.

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Using block commands in XpressDox Docussembly™

September 30, 2009 User Reference
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The ForEach and If commands are called ‘block commands’ because they are terminated with a separate End command. Between the start and end of the block there are other Merge Fields. There is a special behaviour related to block commands to help with eliminating unwanted empty paragraphs when the start and end appear on different paragraphs.

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