

If you find yourself making the same settings changes, drawing certain things, creating shortcuts, etc., repeatedly, in (almost) all of your wysiwyg files and before you even start to draw the plot, you can easily save all this in a template file. Wysiwyg templates work in the same manner as those used in other programs: once created, they can be used as a base or starting point for new files. In this month’s tip, you will learn how useful templates can be and how easy they are to create and use.

Stay tuned for more details and upcoming online demos.The ability to use templates is one of wysiwyg’s most powerful features, and yet they are often overlooked by many users. Get more information and screenshots in our HTML Roadmap. You can simply integrate the editor into your ASP.NET Web application. In order to deploy this editor, no browser settings must be changed, no client-side security settings must be adjusted. The new cross-browser HTML5-based Web editor and template designer runs in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer. This editor doesn't require any client-side browser plug-ins, but pure HTML5 and Javascript.

In the next version X11, which is targeted for Q3 2014, an HTML5-based, cross-browser template designer will be part of the ASP.NET server version of TX Text Control. HTML5-based, WYSIWYG Web Template Designer This way, you can fulfill your customer requirements with one technology. Text Control Reporting provides the same template designer functionality for Windows Forms, WPF or the Web - one concept, all platforms. Resulting documents can be exported to Adobe PDF or all other supported formats, printed and displayed in a browser. The following illustration gives an overview of the typical process: Templates are created in Windows or Web applications, stored and merged on a server using the Text Control Reporting engine DocumentServer.MailMerge. This concept allows developers to deploy a reporting system where end-users are able to create and modify MS Word compatible templates across all platforms, devices and browsers. Last week, we announced a new technology to create and modify templates in all typical browsers.

Conventional banded report designers are complex - Text Control reporting is easy to understand and thanks to WYSIWYG, the template is rendered exactly the same like on paper or in an Adobe PDF.
