Designer Overview

Designer Overview

This section covers the use of the InterFormNG2 designer. For installation you should refer to Installation and upgrade.

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These sections cover the use of the designer:

  1. Starting the designer.
  2. Create a new template.
  3. Open an existing template in the designer.
  4. Introduction to the designer
  5. Design elements. Here you can find a list of all the design elements.
  6. Save a template.
  7. Alignment options in the designer. This includes tips of how to align design elements.
  8. Fixed and dynamic positions. This explains the two options for positioning elements.
  9. Dynamic Xpath settings for design elements.
  10. Edit an input sample file.
  11. Template examples. A few sample templates to illustrate how you can solve a few design challenges.
  12. The transformation designer. This designer can help you to transform both XML files and version 2 spooled files into transformed XML files.
  13. Edit the sample file. How to edit the sample input file.

This video is a short introduction to the designer:


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