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Getting data from data sources into a template

Now that you have configured a data source, the data can be used on your XpressDox template using commands such as ChooseFromDataSource or IncludeDataSourceData. Learn more about these XpressDox commands here.

Make data source information available on all templates

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.

How to change data or insert new data into a data source

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.

Save the Dataset into a Database Column

There are any number of reasons that you might want to save the dataset for a template into a single column in as database. One of these would be to report on the data set,

Run a “mail merge”

Use one template to generate a letter to each of a set of clients whose contact details are saved in a database.

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