On the Export format properties tab, which is present when you have selected a new or existing export format for a data source in an application in the Application browser, you specify the export format (adapl and/or Word templates) that must be available from within the current data source in Adlib for Windows (custom export formats are not supported in Axiell Collections: for a .csv export, consider applying an adapl-only export format as a Custom Template type output job with pdest to .csv, giving the same result as an export format to csv would). Adlib displays the export format that you specify here, in the Export wizard dialog in an application.

Click here for information on how to edit properties in general. And click here to read about how to manage objects in the tree view in the Application browser. On the current tab you'll find the following settings:

Adapl

If you want to use an adapl to define the layout of this export format, then select the desired ADAPL procedure on your system. You can also type the path and name of the adapl yourself. Do not enter an extension.
If you also want to use a Word template, then this adapl may not contain any PRINT or OUTPUT statements.

Template path

For this property you may select a Word template (a .dot file) on your system to set up as an export format. Also the wildcard * (asterisk) can be used instead of the path to a template. When the user selects such an export format in the Export wizard, the Template window opens. From this window, the user can select any template on the computer or network to export to.

Template type

The Template type indicates the type of template (if you use one): Label is a Word template for making labels and Normal document is for a normal document template.

Stylesheets XML type

If you are using an XSLT stylesheet as an export format (in which case the stylesheet(s) have been specified in the option below), you must indicate here which XML type is expected by the stylesheet(s): Grouped or Unstructured. By default, Adlib (adlwin.exe) generates unstructured XML and any XSLT stylesheet export formats created prior to Adlib 7.1 will always be based on unstructured XML. From Adlib 7.1, the new XML type option will also default to Unstructured for existing output formats; in new output formats though, it will default to Grouped. Only from Adlib 7.1, you can choose whether to base your stylesheet on grouped or unstructured XML. Click here for more information about the differences between the two formats.

Stylesheets Path

This option allows you to set one or more XSLT stylesheets to be used as an export format. XSLT stylesheets are UTF-8 encoded text files with the extension .xsl or .xslt.
All entered stylesheets for an export format are executed in sequence, from top to bottom, when exporting. This allows you to spread complicated transformations over different stylesheets.
XSLT stylesheets cannot be used in combination with an adapl or Word template.

Job title

Enter a name for this export format in one or as many languages as you wish to make available to users. These names will be used in the Export wizard dialog.
In adapls, titles may already have been specified; these have priority over any titles specified on this tab. If no titles have been defined in the export adapl, the titles specified on this properties tab will be used.

Job description

To elucidate this export format you may provide short descriptions. These will not be visible to the user.

See also

Export format access rights