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HTML-printing is meant for printing various types of documents.
The distinctive feature of this printing method is an ease of creating report
templates (it requires only a basic knowledge of HTML).
HTML-printing
is based on a principle that each document type can have several corresponding
reports, each represented by a file with the rep extension (report
template written in HTML using keywords, links to field values and table titles).
Let's examine a typical template for Notes - notes.rep file (supplied with GoldenSection Notes,
located in the Reports folder).
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[%%ReportType=Notes%%]
[%%ReportCaption="Notes"%%]
[%%ReportDescription=" "%%]
[%%HEADER%%]
<html>
<head>
<title>%%ReportTitle%%</title>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=%%Charset%%">
</head>
<BODY bgcolor=#FFFFFF leftmargin=5 topmargin=5 rightmargin=5 bottommargin=5>
<FONT size=2 color=#000000 face="Arial">
%%ImgCaption%%<STRONG>%%Caption%%</STRONG>
</FONT>
<hr>
#==============================================================================
[%%ROWTABLE%%]
<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=3 width="100%" cellspacing=0>
<tr bgcolor="%%BGColor%%"> <td>%%IgnoreHtmlTitle%%</td> </tr>
</TABLE>
#==============================================================================
[%%COMMENTS%%]
<TABLE border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%" bgcolor="%%BGColor%%">
<tr><td>%%Comments%%</td></tr>
</TABLE>
#==============================================================================
[%%FOOTER%%]
</body>
</html>
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On the basis of this template, a report of the following appearance is generated on printing tasks:
A template consists of seven obligatory parts called sections. All sections should go in a strictly defined order and have the following appearance:
| [%%ReportType=Notes%%] | | report type |
| [%%ReportCaption="Notes"%%] | report name |
| [%%ReportDescription=" "%%] | report description |
| [%%HEADER%%] | report heading |
| [%%ROWTABLE%%] | data |
| [%%COMMENTS%%] | comments |
| [%%FOOTER%%] | report end |
A report type is entered after the "=" sign in the
[%%ReportType=Notes%%] section.
For Notes this line must be entered as [%%ReportType=Notes%%]
(see the full list of all sections in the Conventions, sections and keywords... section).
The [%%ReportCaption="Notes"%%] section - the name of a report is
entered in quotation marks after the "=" sign. On printing,
this name will appear in the Report template field of the
Report options dialog box.
The [%%ReportDescription=" "%%] section - a short description of
the report is entered in quotation marks after the "=" sign.
On printing, this will appear in the Report description field of
the Report options dialog box.
The [%%HEADER%%] section - description of a report heading. It includes standard HTML tags and keywords required for the creation of a report heading:
Example of the [%%HEADER%%] section:
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[%%HEADER%%]
<html>
<head>
<title>%%ReportTitle%%</title>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=%%Charset%%">
</head>
<BODY bgcolor=#FFFFFF leftmargin=5 topmargin=5 rightmargin=5 bottommargin=5>
<FONT size=2 color=#000000 face="Arial">
%%ImgCaption%% <STRONG>%%Caption%%</STRONG>
</FONT>
<hr>
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On report generation, the %%Charset%% keyword is changed by a codepage
number. An icon of the current document appears instead of %%ImgCaption%%.
Instead of %%Caption%% you get the name of a document.
The [%%ROWTABLE%%] section contains variable table data. For documents of the Notes type, this is an area for the display of note titles.
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[%%ROWTABLE%%]
<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=3 width="100%" cellspacing=0>
<tr bgcolor="%%BGColor%%"> <td>%%IgnoreHtmlTitle%%</td> </tr>
</TABLE>
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where %%IgnoreHtmlTitle%% - keyword substituted on report generation by the value of the Title field - note title.
%%BGColor%% - keyword substituted by the value of the note color.
The [%%COMMENTS%%] section contains a keyword (%%Comments%%) used for outputting document comments.
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<TABLE border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%" bgcolor="%%BGColor%%">
<tr><td>%%Comments%%</td></tr>
</TABLE>
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The [%%FOOTER%%] section describes end tags of an HTML report template.
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[%%FOOTER%%]
</body>
</html>
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