Script-based formatting in element report

[Heather Wallace]

So I finally got around to checking what scripting is all about. I particularly like the idea of using it to insert a bulleted list of elements (hyperlinked names). I can see where to do this in the profiles, but is there some reason the script option can’t also be available for formatting an element in the element report?

Heather

[eadocX Support]

If, when you define you Element Report, you choose
“Use defaults for element type”
then eaDocX will use the formatting in the Profile for the element type/stereotype. You can then make that table, inline or Script.
We have seen some really impressive uses of Scripting for eaDocX formatting, where people need/want to reproduce some existing document style exactly. You can add colours, sub-tables, strange fonts, all kinds of stuff. But we only intend for it to be used very occasionally, otherwise you might as well use RTF !

[Heather Wallace]

I saw that option. My point was more that in a single document there might be one “main” treatment of the stereotype, which would deal with lots of stuff and be handled via a normal profile, plus one or more supplementary treatments of the element type e.g. as a simple bullet list of hyperlinked names.

I need to look into this a bit further before I can say anything sensible, as I haven’t yet tried to create my document (the underlying Word template won’t turn up until tomorrow). What I essentially have it a need to display the element twice:

First: Parent element plus description plus bullet list of hyperlinked names of children
Then: each child with its name as heading and desrption plus lots of relationships and pictures (i.e. standard profile)

So I guess the element report wasn’t really the issue in this case, what I really need is the option to present a table of related attributes as a bulleted list, or the option to define an alternative presentation for a related element.

Hmm…

Heather

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