Creating and saving templates

Creating a new default template

To create a new default XHTML export template, select New Default from the pop-up menu in the Export Template view for XHTML.

A new default XHTML export template has the following elements:

Elements	Name defaults to
Root <form>	DataWindow name_dataForm
Header <div>	DataWindow name_band1
Detail <div>	DataWindow name_bandn
Summary <div>	DataWindow name_bandn
Footer <div>	DataWindow name_bandn
Child elements of the Header, Detail, Summary, and Footer elements	Name of each DataWindow control.

Saving the template

To save a new default template, select Save from the pop-up menu in the Export Template view for XHTML, name the template, and provide a comment that identifies its use.

Shows the Save Template dialog box where you can name the new template and add a comment

The template is stored inside the DataWindow object in the PBL. After saving a template with a DataWindow object, you can see its definition in the Source editor for the DataWindow object. For example, this is part of the source for a DataWindow that has two templates. The templates have required elements only:

export.xhtml(usetemplate = "t_phone"
template = (name = "t_address" 
		comment = "Employee Address Book" xhtml = "<…>")
template = (name = "t_phone" 
		comment = "Employee Phone Book" xhtml = "<…>") )

Defining multiple templates You can define multiple templates for a single DataWindow object. One reason you might do this is to vary the edit styles generated for the same DataWindow edit control.