help needed for TPL file

Hi,

We are having a requirement that we need to generate footer html in more than one language.We are using a single template with replicant block.
Each block:
1.Contains a dropdown of languages code
2.two textboxes

I am using a prsentation template to generate more than one html.
The tpl reads the langcode and genertes the footer_langcode.html say footer_en.html.

for the time being i am hardcoding footer string so that every html that is generate is named starts with footer like footer_fr.html, footer_en.html etc.

instaed of this hard coding I want that when user wants to generate footer html, he has to specify an output file say abc.If he gives abc as output file
I want to generate abc_en.html,abc_fr.html etc.
how can I get the name of the file that user has entered in my tpl file.

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Mr_Cruise

There are many ways of tackling this problem and the solution depends on your ability. A simple solution is to use the iw_ostream tag in the tpl. So a user would choose to generate foot.html but the tpl would iterate over the languages and generate a html file for each langauge. You will need to use the tpl perl command iwpt_get_ofile_name(); to obtain the original output file and manipulate this to create the lanuage specific output file.

One important thing to remember is that a user will have to attach all the html files to the workflow for approval. However, this can be automated with anough effort.

If you need another solution then please reply.

kaalraa

As per your requirement, certain things to be cleared first. Also please provide environment info as well.

1. What steps you are following to get the multiple output files. External file or GUI Generate?

2. As far as your query is concerned, on the top of my head.... just look out more for iwpt_output command.

Hi,

We are having a requirement that we need to generate footer html in more than one language.We are using a single template with replicant block.
Each block:
1.Contains a dropdown of languages code
2.two textboxes

I am using a prsentation template to generate more than one html.
The tpl reads the langcode and genertes the footer_langcode.html say footer_en.html.

for the time being i am hardcoding footer string so that every html that is generate is named starts with footer like footer_fr.html, footer_en.html etc.

instaed of this hard coding I want that when user wants to generate footer html, he has to specify an output file say abc.If he gives abc as output file
I want to generate abc_en.html,abc_fr.html etc.
how can I get the name of the file that user has entered in my tpl file.

Adam Stoller

There are many ways of tackling this problem and the solution depends on your ability. A simple solution is to use the iw_ostream tag in the tpl. So a user would choose to generate foot.html but the tpl would iterate over the languages and generate a html file for each langauge. You will need to use the tpl perl command iwpt_get_ofile_name(); to obtain the original output file and manipulate this to create the lanuage specific output file.

One important thing to remember is that a user will have to attach all the html files to the workflow for approval. However, this can be automated with anough effort.

If you need another solution then please reply.

Another thing to remember is that all files other than the one specified on the original command line will not have the TeamSite Templating (FormsPublisher) EA's associated with them by default - you need to do that too.

garima

Thanks a lot.
I m using teamsite 6.5.
I m using iw_ostream to generate multiple htmls from the tempalte.
Thanks Cruise for telling me abt iwpt_get_ofile_name().
it works