Commands / Functions in XpressDox Document Automation software. Here is a list containing every command / function available in the XpressDox Command Assistant, listed alphabetically, along with a short explanation of what it does. Click on the command name for more information and examples of usage.   Command or Function...

Present repeating data to the user in a grid format –  a bit like a spreadsheet.   Command structure: «CaptureInGrid(Party,Yes)»   Examples of usage: «ForEach(Party)» Full Name: «FullNames» Type: «ChooseFromList(Type,,Individual,Entity)»«Type» Contact number: «ContactNumber» «End()» «CaptureInGrid(Party,Yes)» The original mechanism for capturing repeated data in the classic / pre-v14 interview was for...

The central issue with repeating data is that the number of repeated data elements is not known at the time the template is authored, and so XpressDox offers the ForEach, List and Ordinal commands as a way of processing a variable number of repeated data elements.

Repeating data elements presents a challenge to the template author, especially in formulating sentences and descriptions where the number of parties or invoice items or other repeating data is unknown at the time of authoring the template. This recipe in the Cookbook demonstrates how XpressDox meets this challenge.

A common issue with repeating data is the requirement to refer to the items within the list by their ordinal values.

Problem Statement Suppose you have an application which requires that one or more parties sign a suretyship document, with the requirement that each party signs their own document, not that they all sign the same document. The first thing to do is set up the suretyship template, with the relevant...

The Document per Repeated Item feature can also be filtered so that only those repeated items fulfilling a particular set of criteria will have a document prepared.

It is sometimes necessary to test whether at least one (Any) of a group of repeated items meets a particular set of criteria, and also to test whether All of the group meet those criteria. This article discusses how to construct those tests.