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Former Member
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Hi,

I know that this thread is already closed here: , but maybe you can give me a hand in this matter. I am having the same problem but I am recently getting involved in this smartform thing so I couldn't understand the whole solution: I have to write the document's footer with some special layout. I cannot show this in this text box, but I will do my best. I have to do something like this (each '\ t' means that the following text should be written in the next tab. Each '\ n' means the end of the line):

Address \ t Telephone \ t Mail \ n

35th First Av. \ t Home: XXX - XXX XXXX \ t username(at)domain.com \ n

Santiago \ t Mobile: YYY - YYY YYYY \ n

Chile \ n

This data is filled dinamically depending on some input data. But for now we can just hard-coded it.

To achieve this I created a new Paragraph in the SmartStyles Tcode. Then I set the Alignment as Left-aligned (Indents and Spacing tab). Then I click on Tabs tab and I set the 3 first elements as (the three of them are defined the same way): Position 10 - Unit CM - Alignment Left-aligned.

The thing is now I don't know how to used this in the footer. Where should I write this data I showed you before in the footer with the layout I set.

Can you help me with that?

In advance, thanks a lot.

In advance, thanks a lot.

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Sandra_Rossi
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Don't you want to use a table (without borders) to align your texts on several lines instead? You'll achieve it with a node of type "template".

Former Member
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thanks for the quick reply,

Yes, it should be something like a table but without the borders, as you said. In each cell the data has break lines. For example, imagine that you have a table with 3 cells and 1 row.

- the first cell will contain:

Address

37th Main St.

Santiago

Chile

- the second cell will contain:

Telephone

Home: XXX - XXX XXXX

Cell (Mobile): YYY - YYY YYYY

- the third cell:

e-mail:

username(at)domain.com

Is it more clear now?

Can you guide me a little bit with this "template" thing? as I said before, I am starting in this matters... how would this development going to be?

once again, thanks.

Sandra_Rossi
Active Contributor
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okay, but can't you just read the documentation, and search the forum, SDN and the web. "template node", isn't it easy to search? in the smart form, right click in the node hierarchy, CREATE TEMPLATE!

Edited by: Sandra Rossi on Feb 19, 2010 9:30 AM

and please, read the forum rules of engagement before posting, what I said is already explained, forum is not intended to help for basic questions

Former Member
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Thanks for your help.

It worked by using the template. then I added a folder for the first line (row) beneath the template and finally I added the 3 text elements for each section I wanted to show.

Once again, thanks.

Sandra_Rossi
Active Contributor
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thank you very much for the feedback

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