Difference between revisions of "Custom Data Formatter Standard Option"

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The Custom Data Formatter produces a tree-based text output based on the incoming Data Table. For example, consider the following table of data:

From a glance at the data we can see that although the values for the name field are all unique, the country field is not. It would therefore make sense, when presenting this data, to provide sub-headers for the country field. So, let's suppose we wanted to create an output that looked something like this:

United Kingdom

Matt Pryor

Graham Roberts

Basil Prescott

Richard Knill

United States

Lauris Cadey

Paul Rebane

This situation lends itself to the Custom Data Formatter. To create a new Custom Data Formatter, right click on the task edit view and select "Insert New > Custom Data Formatter". The first thing to do is give the data formatter a name, in case we want to re-use it later:

Type of document to produce

This allows you to select a pre-defined document type. The type of document selected dictates the initial value of the root element and the tags suggested in the suggestion provider.

The available types are:

- Generic Document (no default text or suggestions are provided)

- HTML Document (a basic HTML template is used as the default text, and HTML tags are suggested)

- PDF Document* (a PDF template is provided, and PDF markup tags are suggested)

- WML Document (Wireless Markup Language, in case you are building a WAP site)

- XML Document (For XML documents, less advanced than using the XML Document Writer).

Iteration Tree

See Also

Task Elements > Data Format Nodes > Custom Data Formatter Standard Option