An XML control file is used to link the content controls in the Microsoft Word document to the view definitions in SmartPlant Foundation.
As seen in the following example, the XML file has four basic sections, which are described in the table below.
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The <ViewDef> nodes allow you to list all the view definitions that can provide data to the report. For each of these nodes, you will provide the name of one view definition using the syntax in this example, ViewDef Name = "ExternalXmtlReportViewDef".
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Each <Controls> node represents one content control in the Microsoft Word document, not displayed in a table, and links it to a specific view definitions using the following syntax: <Controls source="ViewDefinitionName.ViewDefinitionPropertyName" target="TagName"/> where TagName is the Tag property of the control in the Microsoft Word template file. |
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If the Microsoft Word document includes data to be displayed inside a table, use the <Tables> node to group all table information together inside specific <Table> nodes for each table in the template.
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You can configure one or more view definitions.
If you have added additional parameters in the Document Naming System module, then
you need to manually add them to the Microsoft Word template and also to the XML control
file.