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Touseonlypartofadatafield,ortosplitthedata,youwillhavetowriteascript.
Foranexample,seethisHow-to:Howtosplitastringintoelements.
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Areyoucurioustoseetheactualcodeofthescript?
Double-clickthescripttoopentheScriptWizard,andthenclicktheExpandbuttontosee
thecode.
Caution: Whenyouchangeanexpandedtextscriptandsaveit,itbecomes
impossibletoeditthescriptusingtheScriptWizardagain.
Formatting variable data
Thewayvariabledataaredisplayedinatemplatedependsontwothings.Firstly,thelocaleinfluences
thewaydates,times,numbersandcurrenciesareformatted;see"Locale"onpage295.Secondly,
therearefunctionstodisplayatextinuppercase,applythousandsseparatorstonumbers,etc.
TheText Helper Wizard(see"UsingtheHelperWizard"onpage310)andtheText Script Wizard
(see"UsingtheTextScriptWizard"onpage314)letyouselectaformatorenteraformatmaskfor
eachfieldthatthescriptaddstothetemplate.Thistopicdescribestheoptionsthatthewizardsoffer,
dependingonthetypeoffield.
ReopentheHelperorscriptbydouble-clickingitintheScriptspane.
Inanexpression,e.g.{{LastName}}(see"Variabledataintext:expressions"onpage307),youcan
typethedesiredformatfunctionbeforethefieldname,e.g.{{uppperCase LastName}}.Functionsinan
expressionarecalled"Helpers".ForanoverviewoftheavailableFormatHelperssee"FormatHelpers"
onpage334.
Formattingcanbeappliedtovalues in a Dynamic Tableviathedata-formatattribute.See:For-
mattingvaluesinaDynamicTable.
Youcouldalsoformatdatainascriptusingtheformatter;see"StandardScriptAPI"onpage715.
Date
Datescanonlybeformattedviaascript.AlldataintheDataModelarestrings;theyhavetobecon-
vertedtoDateobjectsbeforeapplyingaparticulardateformat.Seealso:"CreatingaDateobjectfroma
string"onpage724.
Fontstyle
Textoriginatingfromvariabledatacanbedisplayedinuppercase,lowercaseorpropercase.
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Uppercase transformsallcharacterstouppercase.
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Lowercase displaystransformsallcharacterstolowercase.
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