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Creating a Template Fragment
A Template Fragment can return data from either an SQL Query, Model Scripts or Project Browser data. The process of defining the content of a Template Fragment depends on which of these types of data you want your Template Fragment to return, although in all cases the process is very similar to creating a normal document template.
Access Project Browser | Right-click on Package | Documentation | Generate Documentation (F8) > Templates
Create a new Template Fragment
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Click on the New button. The New Document Template dialog displays. |
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In the New Template field, type the name for the Template Fragment.
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In the Template Type field, click on the drop-down arrow and select the Fragments option.
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In the Copy Template field, click on the drop down arrow and select either:
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In the Template Group field either:
The Template Group determines the location of the Template Fragment in the Resources window. |
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Click on the OK button. The Document Template Designer displays in the Diagram View.
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Define the contents of your Template Fragment; the actual steps you follow depend on the data type you want the Template Fragment to return:
Alternatively, if you want to use the Template Fragment to call other Fragments depending on element type, define it as a Template Selector. |
Design Custom Document Templates
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Once you have created the Template Fragment, you incorporate it into a normal template (or into an existing Template Fragment, if you wish). |
Adding Fragments to a Document Template
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Notes
| · | As with normal document templates, Template Fragments can also be created and opened via the Resources window |
| · | Template Fragments in the Resources window are held in a Fragments folder in each of the Document Generation > System Templates and Document Generation > User Templates folders, and are indicated by a T symbol |
| · | If you have an existing template that you want to use as a Template Fragment, copy the template as the base of a new Fragment (as above) |
| · | If you embed a Template Fragment within another Fragment, report generation from the parent template will be slower |
Learn more
Learning Center topics
| · | Alt+F1 | Enterprise Architect | Reporting | RTF Template Fragments | |
| · | Create a SQL based Fragment 1 |
| · | Create a SQL based Fragment 2 |
| · | Create a Script Fragment 1 |
| · | Create a Script Fragment 2 |
| · | Create a Filtered Fragment 1 |
| · | Create a Filtered Fragment 2 |
| · | Combine Filtered Fragments |
