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beusedtocreateaTableOfContents(TOC),asexplainedinthetopic:"CreatingaTableOfContents"
onpage411.
See"PostPaginationScripts"onpage410.
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InordertopersonalizethecontentofatemplateintheDesigner,youneedtohaveaDataModelanda
sampleofcustomerdata.AtthedesignstagetheDesignerdoesn'tneedtohaveaccesstoalldata;it
justneedstoknowwhichdatafieldsexistinyourdataanditneedssomedatatobeabletodisplaya
previewoftheoutput.
TogetaccesstoaDataModelanddata,youcanopen:
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Adatafile,see"Addingdatafromadatafile"below.
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Adatabase,see"Addingdatafromadatabase"onpage301.
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JSONsampledata,see"AddingJSONsampledata"onpage306.
Whenyouopenadatafileoradatabase,theDataModelwillbederivedfromit.
Afteropeningadatafileordatabase,theData Modelpaneattherighthandbottomshowsthedata
fieldsthatoccurinthedata.
TheValuecolumndisplaysdatafromthefirstrecordinthedatafile.UsetheFirst,Previous,Nextand
Lastbuttonstobrowsethroughtherecords,orusethePageUp,PageDown,HomeandEndkeys.
Notethatallvaluesarestrings.
Addingdatafromadatafile
1. ClickFile,selectAdd DataandthenclickFrom file data source.Browsetothelocationofthe
fileandselectit.
TheDesignercanopenthefollowingtypesofdatafiles:
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Tabularfiles:CSVfiles(.csv,.txt)andMicrosoftExcelfiles(.xls,.xlsx)
Note: Excelfilessavedin"StrictOpenXML"formatarenotsupportedyet.
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MicrosoftAccessDatabase(.mdb,.accddb)
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JSONfiles(JSON)
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XMLfiles(.XML)
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AFPfiles(optional).
2. Reviewtheoptionspresented,toensurethatthedatawillbeinterpretedcorrectly.Theoptions
availabledependonthetypeofdatafile(seebelow).
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