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February 13, 2017

SetWebCustomButton – XpressDox

As its name implies, this command is used to create a custom button on the Web interview. The template author can use this, and then, when the template is integrated into a client system, the button can be used by the web designer to implement custom behaviour in the web

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SecondsBetween – XpressDox

The fillpoint «SecondsBetween(Later,Earlier)» will return the number of seconds between the value in data element Later, and that in Earlier. For example: The race started at «ChooseUsingTimePicker(StartTime)»«FormatTime(StartTime,’hh mm tt’)» and ended at «ChooseUsingTimePicker(EndTime)»«FormatTime(EndTime,’hh mm tt’)». The elapsed time was «SecondsBetween(EndTime,StartTime)» seconds, which was not a new record.

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CultureName – XpressDox

This function can be used to take different action depending on the “culture” active at the time. All possible cultures are defined in Table of Language Culture Names, Codes, and ISO Values. The function has two possible arguments, viz. “Input” (or just “In”) and “Output” (or “Out”) «CultureName(‘Input’)» will return

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AlignErrorMessages – XpressDox

This command allows the template author for Web interviews to specify where the error messages for data elements in the interview should appear.   Command structure: «AlignErrorMessages(Top)» Examples of usage: «AlignErrorMessages(Top)» will cause any error messages to be displayed above the relevant data element in the Web interview, and the

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The Log Functions – XpressDox

There are three similar functions which can be used to debug a template. Log This takes one argument and would look something like: «Log(Reached the paragraph after A)» This creates a log message in a file called LogXpressDox.txt which will be written to the My Documents folder of the user

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InsertHyperlink – XpressDox

XpressDox will insert a Word hyperlink into the assembled document. «InsertHyperlink(‘Our Company Web Site’,’www.abccompany.com’)» will put the text ‘Our Company Web Site’ into the document, underlined and coloured to look similar to a hyperlink inserted manually, and, when the user selects to open the link, will open the web page

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ForbidThousandsSeparators – XpressDox

Particularly in a situation where users of a template might want to use numeric values input according to different regions, this command can be used by the template author to make sure that template runners may not use the thousands separator when capturing numeric data in the interview.

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ExpectXSLTFormatNumbers – XpressDox

This is the command that is fundamental to ensuring that XpressDox arithmetic features apply regardless of the format of numbers specified in the Windows Control Panel or chosen by the user. A full explanation of this and related commands will be found in the Cookbook article Arithmetic in XpressDox.

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