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Replacing your XpressDox Desktop license key From your XpressDox ribbon in Word, click on Settings and then on License (if you are using v12 or earlier) or on the version number (if you are
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Replacing your XpressDox Desktop license key From your XpressDox ribbon in Word, click on Settings and then on License (if you are using v12 or earlier) or on the version number (if you are
With the advent of The OnExitSet and OnEnterSet Commands, it became possible to have the captions (or footing text or heading text) of a data element in the interview change in response to the user
A Data Sheet can be merged for a template, showing just the data elements and their values. The link Data Sheets has a full description of the functionality around data sheet templates. The merging of
Creating packages / suites of documents With the MergeTemplate function, it is possible to create many assembled documents from one interview. One template can use the MergeTemplate function to assemble a new document, or
Overview The HotDocs® (HD) converter released with Version 11 of XpressDox will attempt as far as possible to prepare a set of XpressDox templates which, ideally, the user will be able to run as-is after
Because XpressDox uses XSLT as its document automation engine, the arithmetic features of XSLT are all available to template authors. There is a caveat, though, and that is that XSLT requires that all numbers presented
Min calculates the minimum of two values: The minimum of «Number1» and 100.1 is «Min(Number1,100.1)».
Mod is used to get the remainder when dividing one number by another. It is typically used to divide sets of items into odd and even, or in a Rule. For example: «ForEach(Parent)» «Name» «End()»
Here are some examples to illustrate the concept which enables the results of calculations to be stored for further use in the template, and even for future templates.
XpressDox give the template author the ability to perform calculations and other operations on the values of data elements, and to store those values in variables for later use in the template. One example of this is the ability to calculate totals on repeated data elements.
With effect from Version 7, there are a number of shortcuts for referring to some of the variable-handling functions. They were introduced to take away the amount of typing necessary when many variables are being
XpressDox can perform arithmetic calculations on data element values. This is done in an intuitive way by simply typing in the calculation.
XpressDox supports multi-language XpressDox supports the user-facing interface in the language of the user. In this context, a “user” is the person who runs a template. That means that the XpressDox Explorer, Interview and Ribbon
Existing users of XpressDox: XpressDox has vanished from my Word toolbar (for existing users) If XpressDox was showing in your toolbar previously, but is no longer doing so, Word may have disabled the XpressDox add–in.
This command is the same as DefineSetAllGroup, but was renamed as MultiSelect from v12. Both will work. There is a requirement in some templates for the interview user to be able to check a
Now() inserts the current date and/or time into the document. It can be formatted in the same way as FormatDate. Command structure: «Now(“d MMMM, yyyy”)» Examples of usage: «Now(“d MMMM, yyyy”)» yields “2
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Now The Now function inserts the current date and/or time into the document. It can be formatted in the same way as for FormatDate. «Now(“d MMMM, yyyy”)» yields ‘4 November, 2010’ «Now(“MMMM o yyyy”)» yields
Usually performing calculations with XpressDox is straightforward. There are some issues to be born in mind, and this Cookbook recipe explores these.
When entering dates for a contract, it is important to get them right during the interview. It might be possible to control this via the Rule command, but often it is very useful to reflect
NumberPhrase is used to convert a number to words, in several different languages. Command structure: «NumberPhrase(Area,”,’leave’)» Examples of usage: «NumberPhrase(Area,”en-us”,”ToUpper”)» Suppose a data element with name ‘Area’ has a value 1234:This would yield “ONE THOUSAND
You are the site administrator for a large legal firm, and you have set up a number of XpressDox applications. Each application has its own set of templates which are located in a folder for
Set the value of a data element on your XpressDox template «OnExitSet()» permits the template author to specify that, when a control on the interview (the trigger) loses focus, the value of another or the
During the running of a template, XpressDox creates a number of structures. The most important one is an XSLT Style Sheet, which is used to drive the engine that merges the data into the template
Ordinal is used within a ForEach to output the ordinal value (that is, ‘first’, ‘second’, etc.) of the position in the list of the current item: «ForEach(party)» The «Ordinal(only ,first ,second ,third ,fourth ,fifth ,sixth ,subsequent )»party is «firstnames surname». «End(ForEach party)» This
