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Table Of Contents

"Content elements" on page465. Elements make up the biggest part of the content of each

design.

"Snippets" on page548. Snippets help share content between contexts, or insert content

conditionally.

"Styling and formatting" on page551. Make your Designer templates look pretty and give them

the same look and feel with style sheets.

"Personalizing Content" on page592. Personalize your customer communications using

variable data.

"Writing your own scripts" on page624. Scripting can take personalization much further. Learn

how to script via this topic.

"Generating output" on page953. Learn the ins and outs of generating output from each of the

contexts.

Templates

The Designer is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) tool to create templates. This topic

gets you started. It explains how to create a template, what is found in a template file, and how

output can be generated.

Creating a template

In the Welcome screen that appears after startup, get off to a flying start choosing Browse

Template Wizards. Scroll down to see all the Template Wizards. After deciding which output

channel – print, email or web – will be prevalent in your template, select a template.

The Template Wizards can also be accessed from the menu: click File, click New, expand the

Template folder, and then expand one of the templates folders.

There are Wizards for the three types of output channels, or contexts as they are called in the