Multiple html output files using one datacapture file

kimbe11

Just wondering if someone can point me to the right direction. I'm trying to automatically create the DCR file along with mutiple html file. I've modified templating.cfg to define the multiple templates for the data type, and I've managed to auto-generate the DCR file, and partially the html file. The partial code is below:

var x = IWPageGeneration.getValidPresentationTemplates();
for (var a=0;a strTemplateName = x.getName();
switch (strTemplateName) {
case 'newsletter.tpl':
IWPageGeneration.setPresentationTemplate(x);
IWPageGeneration.setOutputFile (tplPath, true);
break;
case 'newsletter_header.tpl':
IWPageGeneration.setPresentationTemplate(x);
IWPageGeneration.setOutputFile (tplHeaderPath, true);
break;
default:
break;
}
}

My problem is that only one html file is generated ...(i.e. focus.header.inc.html) the html file for the newsletter_header.tpl presentation template. I expected both html files to be created ... both focus.inc.html and focus.header.inc.html. I've seen previous posts about possibly using iwgen and callServer formAPI command, but I'm wondering if I can use those commands in my javascript used in the datacapture.cfg.

Thanks in advance.

Adam Stoller

Just wondering if someone can point me to the right direction. I'm trying to automatically create the DCR file along with mutiple html file. I've modified templating.cfg to define the multiple templates for the data type, and I've managed to auto-generate the DCR file, and partially the html file. The partial code is below: ... My problem is that only one html file is generated ...(i.e. focus.header.inc.html) the html file for the newsletter_header.tpl presentation template. I expected both html files to be created ... both focus.inc.html and focus.header.inc.html. I've seen previous posts about possibly using iwgen and callServer formAPI command, but I'm wondering if I can use those commands in my javascript used in the datacapture.cfg. Thanks in advance.

I think the FormAPI directives only allow you to create a 1:1 mapping. If you want to generate multiple files every time you generate a page from these DCRs, you should probably handle it within the PT using iw_ostream or an iw_perl block that invokes iwgen or iwpt_compile.ipl for each of the output files you want to generate (other than the default for which the command was issued).