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Placethecursorinthetemplatewhereyouwantthedatatobeinsertedandthendouble-
clickthedatafieldintheDataModelpane.
Note: Thisdoesn'tworkfordatainadetailtable.Dataindetailtablescanbeinsertedina
DynamicTableusingtheDynamicTablewizard(see"DynamicTable"onpage742).
Whathappensisthat:
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Aplaceholderforthevalueofthedatafieldshowsupinthetext.Itlooksasfollows:
@FIELDNAME@.
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AscriptappearsintheScriptspaneatthebottomleft.
Tip: Double-clickthescripttoopentheTextScriptWizardandaddmorefieldstothesame
script.See"UsingtheTextScriptWizard"onthenextpage.
Thescriptreplacestheplaceholdersinthecontentwiththevalueofadatafieldinthecurrentrecord.
SwitchtothePreviewtabatthebottomoftheworkspacetoseethescriptinoperation.Thevalueofthe
correspondingdatafieldinthefirstrecordappearsinsteadoftheplaceholder,everywherewherethe
placeholderisfoundinthetext.Thisvaluewillberefreshedwhenyoubrowsethroughtherecordsin
theDataModelpane.
Whentheoutput(theletter,email,etc.)isgenerated,thetextscriptexecutesforeachrecordinthe
recordset,andeachtimeitreplacestheplaceholderswiththevalueofthefieldinthecurrentrecord.
IntheScriptspaneyoucanseethatthescripthasanameandaselector.Theselectoriswhata
scriptlooksforinthetemplate.
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Thedrag-and-dropmethodautomaticallygeneratesascriptthatisnamedafterthedatafield
(seetheScriptspane).
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Bydefaultthedrag-and-dropmethodwrapstheplaceholdertextinaSpan.(Selecttheplace-
holderandswitchtotheSourcetabtoseetheSpanelement.)TheSpan'sclassisusedas
selector.Notethatanyspacesthatoccurinadatafieldnamewillberemovedfromthescript
selector.
WhenyoudragthesamefieldfromtheDataModeltothecontentagain,asecondplaceholderappears
inthetext,butnonewscriptisadded.Theexistingscriptwillreplaceallplaceholdersthatmatchits
selector.
YoucouldalsodragascriptwithanIDand/orclassselectorfromtheScriptspaneintothetemplateto
insertanadditionalplaceholder.
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