Map spooled files in the designer

Map spooled files in the designer

You can map spooled file data in the designer, after you have loaded a spooled file.

Mapping is done with the either ng:spoolMap or the ng:spoolMapRel built-in functions.

This section covers this:

  1. How to view the spooled file contents
  2. Spooled file extract functions. A short introduction to the functions, that are able to extract spooled file data.
  3. Map spooled file data from a specific page
  4. Map spooled file data from current page
  5. Change spooled file mappings
  6. Suggestions for a fixed fonts
  7. Reproduce input spooled file as output
  8. How to iterate across detail lines of the input spooled file.
  9. Use the spooled file attributes in the designer.
  10. Change the page breaks of the spooled file.
  11. Use the pagerange of an input spooled file to only output pages within the page range selected in the input spooled file.
  12. Output the spooled file pages in reverse order.
  13. Copy management: Multiple copies of each page with different layout for each copy.
  14. Handling multi-line conditioned sections. How to handle multiple lines in a conditioned section, when scanning spooled file lines.
  15. Switch between different page layouts within a spooled file. This section shows how you can switch between totally different page layouts in InterFormNG2 - similar to overlay selectors in InterForm400.
  16. How to do multi-up also called pages per side i.e. place multiple input spooled file pages on each output page.
  17. How to combine spooled file as input with duplex output.
  18. How to insert dynamic images found in input spooled file.
  19. How to present the multiple results from an SQL lookup in the designer.
  20. How to retrieve a value with the ng:databaseLookup (SQL) function into a variable in designer and workflow.

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