Letterheads in XpressDox The DocumentBody command is used in conjunction with a BaseTemplate command and is used to fill the contents of the document after inserting the letterhead. The BaseTemplate / DocumentBody construct is fine to use when you have a very simple header /footer in your letterhead, but when...

XpressDox offers various ways of connecting templates in some way; IncludeTemplate, IncludeCodeTemplate, InsertTemplate as well as MergeTemplate and RunTemplate. But what is the difference between all these commands and functions?   Below is a summary of each of the commands. Each of them can of course be used conditionally, and...

Embed a spreadsheet into an assembled document   Using the IncludeSpreadsheet command, you can embed a spreadsheet into the assembled document.  This uses Microsoft’s OLE technology, which means that when you view the assembled document and double click on the spreadsheet, that spreadsheet will open in Excel. It can then...

An entire template file can be inserted into the document using the «IncludeTemplate» command. The included template can contain Fillpoint definitions and even issue further IncludeTemplate commands.  It is treated thereafter exactly as if the contents of that included template had been typed directly into the including template. Example: The description of...

The original article regarding inserting documents with variable names was written way back in 2009.  Since then, as a result of further maturing of XpressDox, some really useful innovations have been added.  In particular, if there are data elements whose values are set very early in the process (in fact...

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 multiple MergeTemplate functions to assemble multiple new documents. It can even be used in a...

When including part (or all) of one document into another, which is the basis of the BaseTemplate, IncludeTemplate and InsertDocument commands, there is always an issue about what formatting (styles, fonts, etc.) should be applied in the resulting document. XpressDox provides three options for this.