Document Studio is a stand-alone application used for designing
document templates. Document Studio provides various views and wizards
which help you design templates with much ease. You can drag elements
to create template contents without writing it manually.
You can do the following when designing your template:
- Create a new template.
- Create master pages to define a header element, a footer element,
and the page's properties such as page orientation, and page
border.
- Select and insert any number of queries and attributes into the
template.
- Define external variables that receive values at runtime.
- Define internal variables used for calculations.
- Create styles.
- Add data sources schemas to the open template.
- Create new schemas and resources using the Schema Discovery wizard.
- Configure, preview, and generate documents.
When
you launch Document Studio, you will start work with new empty template.
1. Palette view
The palette view displays
all the elements that you use to create and design your document template.
See
Template elements for more details. This view
also has the following object selection tools:
- Select: Allows selecting elements in the editor area. A single
click selects the clicked element. Ctrl + Click adds the clicked element
to the selection.
- Marquee: Allows you to select multiple elements.
By default, a palette element remains selected until you
select a new tool.
2. Schema view
This view displays the data
schemas in the template. Each schema is displayed in its own page.
3. Editor area
This is the core area of
Document Studio. The visual content of the document template and the
content of the master pages are created in this area. The editor area
has one page for the template content and one page for each master
page.
4. Outline view
Displays the content of
the templates in a tree structure.
5. Properties view
Displays the properties
of the selected element and enables you to edit it. However, some
properties such as the query path are read-only. It also displays
the accepted values in a tooltip for some formatting properties.
6. Problems view
Displays the list of errors
and warnings in the template.
7. Zoom editor
The Zoom editor allows you
to focus on a on a particular element or set of elements. This is
useful when designing complex templates with many nested elements.
If your view does not look like the one shown above, you can restore
it using the Window > Restore Default
Perspective menu selection. These views can be hidden,
undocked and moved. If you move your cursor over the borders between
the panes in the editor you will find that they can be expanded or
contracted either vertically or horizontally. You can view detailed
hierarchies within a pane, or shrink a pane to get more space for
designing.