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_band_0
Detail <div>	DataWindow name_detail_0
Summary <div>	DataWindow name_band_n
Footer <div>	DataWindow name_band_n
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.

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 Syntax view for the DataWindow object. Save and close the Form view of the DataWindow object, then select View Syntax from its pop-up menu in the Solution Explorer to see the DataWindow syntax. For example, this is part of the syntax 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.