Technical

Registry settings to override default behavior in XpressDox Desktop

If you want to override some of the default behavior in XpressDox Desktop, there are a few options available to you:   Show / Hide the XpressDox Ribbon Registry setting: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\XpressDox\DesktopSettings\XpressDox.DocumentAssembly.Word.XpressDoxInWordSettings\IsRibbonToBeHidden Value: Behavior: True Hide the XpressDox ribbon False / does not exist Show the XpressDox ribbon     Show...

Why can't I browse my Documents folder in my cloud account

Too many files in a folder Unless otherwise specified, assembled documents are auto saved to a default location and given a name. The location is a folder called Documents inside the same folder that the template is run from, and the name of the assembled document is the same as...

Integrate XpressDox interviews into your Application

XpressDox interviews can be launched from external applications using URL’s built in the following way.   Embed XpressDox into a 3rd party application, either launching into a new browser tab or in an iFrame https://<theXpressDoxInstance>.xpressdox.com/IFrameHandler/Start?type=microsoft&domainHint=<yourDomain>&iframeView=true&treeview=false     Launch a specific interview Using the above URL launches the entire Explorer. However,...

How to achieve a silent install - XpressDox

A silent XpressDox install can be achieved using PowerShell or SCCM Download the XpressDox exe file from our Downloads page.   How to install: To perform a silent installation, download the xpressdox.exe from the Downloads page Create a silent.bat as follows: cd <path to xpressdox exe> xpressdox.exe /Hide /[TROUBLESHOOTER]=N /[FIRSTTIMEWEBSITELAUNCH]=N...

Understanding XpressDox Artefacts

XpressDox Artefacts When a template runs, XpressDox creates a number of internal structures.  The most important of these is an XSLT Stylesheet.  The stylesheet contains the definition of how the data from an XML data set are to be inserted into the Word template in order to generate the merged...

The Processing Phases of XpressDox

When running a template in XpressDox (i.e. in the Word add-in), you are interacting with five phases of processing. These are:   1. Template normalisation. This process consists of merging the templates referred to in «BaseTemplate()» and «IncludeTemplate()» commands, and also «UseScript()» commands, into one comprehensive template.  All of the...

Using XSLT functions - XpressDox

XpressDox uses XSLT technology to insert data elements into Merge Fields. This means that a vast amount of functionality is available to the experienced user, especially the XSLT functions, which are used to format data. XpressDox functions and XSLT functions can be mixed in one Merge Field

XML and Data Sets

The core process of XpressDox is the merging of data into a template to produce a final merged document. The XpressDox merging engine thus needs two things: a set of data to merge, and a template into which to merge the data. The data which XpressDox merges into a template...
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