1.8

Formatting an automatically updating date
The script added to automatically update the date uses the short date format. To change this:
1.
Double-click the date script in the Scripts pane.
2. Delete the first line of the script.
3. On the second line, delete what comes after format and change format to
formatter (see "formatter" on page544).
4.
Now type a dot after formatter, press Ctrl + space and choose one of the functions to
format a date and time; see "Creating a Date object from a string" on page549.
Note
The Locale, set in the Edit > Locale dialog, has an influence on the formatting of a date. The
Locale can be the system's locale, a specific locale, or it can depend on the value of a data field; see
"Locale" on page235.
Hyperlink and mailto link
Links can be added to any template but they only work in electronic output (web pages, email
and PDF files). They can be a regular hyperlink pointing to a web page or a mailto link that will
open the default email client when clicked.
HTML element: a
When you add elements, such as text, images or a table, to the content of a template, you are
actually constructing an HTML file. It is possible to edit the source of the HTML file directly in
the Designer; see "Editing HTML" on page129.
The HTML tag of a hyperlink or mailto-link is <a>. This is sometimes called an anchor tag. For
a list of attributes, see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp.
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