Creating templates
To create a template, select the New menu item or the New
Default menu item from the pop-up menu in the Export/Import
Template view.
Creating new base templates
The New menu
item creates a template that is empty except for the XML declaration,
the root element, and the first element of the row data section, referred
to as the Detail Start element. The name of the root element is
the same as the name of the DataWindow object, and the default name for
the Detail Start element is the name of the root element with _row appended.
For example, if the DataWindow object is named d_name,
the default template has this structure:
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<?xml version="1.0"?><br><d_name><br>   <d_name_row><br>   </d_name_row><br></d_name> |
Creating new default templates
The New Default menu item creates a template with the same
contents as the New menu item, as well as a flat structure of child
elements of the Detail Start element. A child element is created
for each DataWindow column name, in the order in which the columns
appear in the SELECT statement, with the exception
of blob and computed columns. The default tag for the element is
the column’s name.
If the names of the column and the control are the same, the
content of the child element displays with a control reference icon.
If there is no control name that matches the column name, the content
of the child element displays using the DataWindow expression icon. For example,
consider a DataWindow object in which the dept_id column
is used as a retrieval argument and does not display:
The SQL syntax is:
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SELECT "employee"."dept_id",<br>         "employee"."emp_lname",<br>         "employee"."emp_fname",<br>         "employee"."salary" <br>   FROM "employee" <br>   WHERE employee.dept_id = :deptnum<br>ORDER BY "employee"."emp_lname" ASC |
In the default template, dept_id uses
the DataWindow expression icon. All the other columns used the column control
reference icon.