Tools

Find/Replace

With the Find/Replace tool, you can search and replace items in your document template. The tool operates on the select attribute in tags only. This tool does not touch text outside of a tag and does not touch attributes other than select.

The Find/Replace tool is available on the Blueprint Manager tab:

After you click Find/Replace, the Find and Replace dialog appears:

Enter the string to find and the string to replace it with into the Find what and Replace with fields. You can click Find Next and Replace to replace strings one at a time. Or, you can click Replace All to replace text throughout the template.

Clean Template

The Clean Template tool is available on the Blueprint Manager tab:

The Clean Template tool creates a new template that scrubs the file, closes your existing template, opens the new scrubbed template, deletes the old file, and renames the new file to the name of the original file.

After you select Clean Template, you are prompted with the following dialog:

Do not select the Template version 9 or earlier option.

This scrubbing includes:

  • All tags are written in the default format.
  • All tag properties are updated to the latest syntax.
  • Selects that have ...'${var}'... are converted to ...${var}... (removing the ' that is no longer needed with setParameter).

Click Clean to clean the template.

Colorize

The Colorize tool creates a copy of your template with every paragraph and cell background set to a random shade of a given color. This is helpful to then run a sample report so that you can see how the forEach and if tags have placed the output.

The Colorize tool is available on the Blueprint Manager tab:

Color values will be set to shades based on the following:

  • Paragraph outside a table:
    • Purple If content is just 1 tag and the paragraph has Keep With Next or Keep Together set.
    • Red If content is just 1 tag and the paragraph does not have either Keep set.
    • Blue If no tags or more than just 1 tag and the paragraph has Keep With Next or Keep Together set.
    • Green If a regular paragraph - no tags or more than just 1 tag and the paragraph does not have either Keep set.
  • Cells inside a table:
    • Red if the row the cell is in is set to header row, Keep With Next, and/or Keep Together.
    • Blue if any paragraph in the cell is set to  Keep With Next and/or Keep Together.
    • Purple if both the row and paragraph have header/Keep values set.
    • Green if none of the above are set.

Hyphenate Text

By default, hyphenation is turned off in Microsoft Office. The Hyphenate Text tool allows you to turn on hyphenated text.

Example

Autotag simplifies the document generation process by allowing

you to design reports in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Becomes

Autotag simplifies the document generation process by allow-

ing you to design reports in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
This feature works in output formats PDF, Printer, and TXT output.Turning this feature on may slow down report generation.

To utilize this feature you must do two things:

  • In the properties/config file, set line.breaks=’internal’ (this is the default for non-Windows systems).
  • In the report call, setHyphenate(true).