Generate out put without TPL

HI All,

I have a little crazy question. Is it possible to generate output without using the tpl or xsl template i.e No presention template.

I have never experinace this before .has any one done that before ...

Waiting your response...

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Adam Stoller

HI All,

I have a little crazy question. Is it possible to generate output without using the tpl or xsl template i.e No presention template.

I have never experinace this before .has any one done that before ...

Waiting your response...

Well, if you want to reinvent the wheel - sure.
A TPL is, to paraphrase Jon ****, "an arbitrary program that parses arbitrary data and generates arbitrary output" - it happens to be done with Perl but you could do something similar in Java, C#, C++, etc - as long as you write the necessary code to parse the DCR (XML) and generate whatever output you want.

Why you would want to do this is beyond me - TPLs are pretty easy and fairly flexible and powerful; XSL is a standard and, in its own way, pretty powerful (though I wouldn't say "easy")

Aghosh

Hi ,

I totally agree with you but the client is asking it ,That is the reason try to explore this possiability ...

RonaldV

So what would you client like to use in stead? The wizard of oz maybe?

Bhargav Coca

Well if they do not want tpl, (I am assuming that they do not want to click generate button to generate any page as well) In which case you cam always dump everything from the DCR into a DB, and have workflow take care of generating the file using an external java code, which accesses the DB to fetch content and generates your output file.

Thanks

Adam Stoller

Hi ,

I totally agree with you but the client is asking it ,That is the reason try to explore this possiability ...

Are you sure you are understanding what the client is asking for?
Do you understand why the client is asking for it?
Do you believe the client is reasonably intelligent and understands what they're asking for (and why)?

Are you sure they need anything generated on the back-end at all? Perhaps they just want the DCR pushed to the front-end and let some front-end application server process the DCR's XML to render a page?

You need to do a bit more investigating on your end before and relay such information before you can really expect to get a decent response here.

ShashankJain

Client's generally don't want to generate output pages manually or clicking on the generate button.

Same can be done using FormApi Method IWpagegeneration , i dont remeber the exact method, you can check in the standard pdf.

Then , the output page can be generated without manual intervention.

Adam Stoller

Client's generally don't want to generate output pages manually or clicking on the generate button.

Same can be done using FormApi Method IWpagegeneration , i dont remeber the exact method, you can check in the standard pdf.

Then , the output page can be generated without manual intervention.

Absolutely - you can use a callServer script in an onSaveValid handler to initiate the page generation process, and you can even use the viewoptions setting in the templating.cfg to remove the Generate button from the window.

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ShashankJain

Absolutely - you can use a callServer script in an onSaveValid handler to initiate the page generation process, and you can even use the viewoptions setting in the templating.cfg to remove the Generate button from the window.

Ideally it should be used in onSaveDone, as generation should happen after save cycle is complete.

Adam Stoller

Ideally it should be used in onSaveDone, as generation should happen after save cycle is complete.

That's probably better, yes.