Providing document templates

Document templates are supported as OSI templates for creating simple text or HTML files or as document template for generating Open Document documents.

The way of calling document generation from within an application program depends on the document type. Generating Open Document Standard compatible documents provides most flexible way of document generation. Calling HTML generation or any other type of document generation by means of OSI templates or functions simply requires an OSI function call. MS Office document may be created by calling MS Office Word and generating the document from within MS Office e.g. by means of VB Scripts.

In order to pass data from the application to the document template, appropriate option variables may be set or written to an ini-file which will be passed to the external program call.