Hi,
i have the following table:
I want to write the X dynamically according to some preference in one of the table rows. For example I have an C# dictionary with the mapping c -> X in this document and b -> X in another.
How can I achieve this with Docentric?
Thanks, Jack
Last edited 16 November 2014
Jack, I think I got. What you want to do is rendering an "X" mark in the correct table row/cell according to the actual document type. Document type is the information/data that you know/provide at document generation time. Well, if this is the case, you can easily achieve this with IF elements. Put an IF element in each of the right cells where each of the IF elements would contain "X". As you might already know, the IF element includes or excludes its wrapped content (in this case "X") in regard to its (boolean) value. So, if you want to easily data bind all four IF elements in your template, you will need to create a class with four properties (IsDocumentTypeA, IsDocumentTypeB...), and at document generation time you will need to instantiate/initialize it and pass it as the data source value. If you don't wan't to create a class, you can just name these IF elements and provide values for them in a ElementInitialize event handler on-the-fly.
Let me know if this makes sense.
-- Jure
Hi, Thanks for the response.
I am afraid that I haven't clarified enough. I have the above table hard coded in my template/document. According to the generated document I have to "check" one of the rows, either "a" or "b" or "c" or "d". I.e. in the table above I have "checked" "c" because this is a document of type "c".
During run time, I can determine what type of document I am working with, and the ideal option is to send a string with the value "X" to Docentric (if not possible I will create an object, but it is less desired), so that it can be incorporated in only one of the rows.
I am looking for the best way to achieve this.
Best regards, Jack
Hi Jack,
Docentric Toolkit doesn't have yet the ability to write arbitrary expressions/formulas in templates that you can find in some other reporting toolkits. So you are limited to simple data bindings (binding paths expressions). This means that you need your data sources to have a suitable structure/schema so that you can data bind template elements against the schema.
If I correctly understand you, you managed to render a collection of some objects (in the form of a table), but you can only render "title" for each row and not another value because it is not part of the record/row object/class. You have 2 options here:
Please let me know if this helped you or you need additional explanation.
Best regards, Jurij
Last edited 16 November 2014
