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Example

This scripts sets a background on a Print section using absolute positioning.

var activeSection = merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections['Section

1'];

activeSection.background.source = BackgroundResource.RESOURCE_PDF;

activeSection.background.url = "images/somepage.pdf";

activeSection.background.position = MediaPosition.ABSOLUTE;

activeSection.background.left = "10mm";

activeSection.background.top = "10mm";

You could replace the last three lines of the previous script by the following line to scale the

Print section background to Media size:

activeSection.background.position = MediaPosition.FIT_TO_MEDIA;

Tip

For more examples, see "Control Script: Setting a Print section's background" on

page398.

clone()

This function returns a new set containing a copy of each element in a set; see "Dynamically

adding sections (cloning)" on page400.

To duplicate an existing template element, clone it before calling append(); see "Examples" on

page763.

Examples

This script performs an iteration over the elements in the results (the elements that match the

selector of the script).

var row = query("tbody tr", results).clone();

query("tbody", results).append(row);

The following script clones an existing table row to match the number of rows in a detail table.

Afterwards it iterates over the rows to populate the fields.

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