Text file Input to Designer

OL Connect Professional DataMapper
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Hi,

I have a Text file input.
This is a invoice with some markup like spaces and line feeds.
The text is nicely visible in the Datamapper.

I would like to use this text in the desiger, without having to re markup the text in the desinger
(Like it is posisble to use a PDF input as a background.)
The reason for this, is that the customer may change the mark up the text input (and preferabel would not like to touch the designer).

I was wondering how to proceed with this.
Do you have any sugestions?

Thank you,
Bob

2

Not sure what you mean by markup like spaces and line feeds, but if you want it to show as in the Datamapper, here is how you do it:

In the Datamapper:

  • Select the whole first line to its maximum width
  • Right-click and choose Add Repeat
  • Right-click again on your data selection and choose Add Extraction
  • On the Step Properties tab, in the Post function: edit box, add this: replace(/ /g, “ ”);

You now have all your lines in a nested table.

In your Template:

  • Add a Detail table and select the field containing your lines
  • Go on the Source tab of the Canvas and look at the classes added to your <td>, by default you should have <td class=“data Field1”>.
  • In the context_print_style.css, add a style as follow:
    .Field1{
    font-family: courier;
    }

That should do it.

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I will implement it like you suggested.
Thank you

4

I have implemented it and it works like a charm.
Thank you.