Element | Description | Can contain other elements | Can contain content values and expressions |
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Use to group a section of elements. Adds a carriage return around its child elements in the output. |
Yes |
No |
Use to group a section of elements. Cannot be styled and does not affect the formatting of the output. When
used inside other elements, the child elements available to use within
the container might be limited. For example:
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Yes |
No |
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Put a section of content into an Iteration element to allow the section to be duplicated in other locations in your template. Only available in version 2 templates. |
Yes |
No |
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The content renders with the same, specified formatting. |
No |
Yes |
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A block of text that can have unique formatting on individual words. Use bold, italic, underline, strikeout, or color formatting on a selection of words within the element. The text is static. |
No |
Yes |
Creates a hyperlink in the output. The hyperlink can point to a location inside the document or to an external location. |
No |
Yes |
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Displays a .gif, .png, .jpg, emf, or wmf image in the output. The report designer can specify the image path in the template or the report generator can specify the path at run time. |
No |
Yes |
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Creates comments that are only visible in the template and not in the output. Only available in version 2 templates. |
No |
Yes |
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Creates block of code within the template. Only available in version 2 templates. |
No |
Yes |
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Creates a table in the output. A table can contain rows or container elements. |
Yes |
No |
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Creates a row in the current table. |
Yes |
No |
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Creates a cell in the current row of the current table. |
Yes |
No |
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Creates a bulleted or numeric list in the output. |
Yes |
No |
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Creates a list item in the current list in the output. |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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Includes the specified file in the output as an INCLUDETEXT field.
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No |
Yes |
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Creates a footnote in the current output page. The text of the footnote is the content of the footnote element. Supported for Microsoft Word output only. |
No |
Yes |
Regions are static elements that allow you to alter the output flow by redirecting the content of other elements or groups of elements. If an element has the target region property specified with the name of a region element, its content renders in the specified region instead of in its position in the document. |
No |
No |
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Defines a bookmark in the document. The name of the generated bookmark is the content for the bookmark. When generating the documents, Rational® Publishing Engine generates a unique name for each bookmark. The name is based on the name provided at design time and a unique identifier generated at run time. |
No |
Yes |
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Adds a comment to the output. The form and shape of the output comment is specific to the output format. Supported for Microsoft Word and PDF. |
No |
Yes |
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Only available in version 2 templates. |
No |
Yes |
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Adds a page break to the output. |
No |
No |
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Adds a section break to the output. |
No |
No |
Adds a table of contents to the output. |
No |
No |
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Adds a table of figures to the output. You must add Figure Captions to the document template for this table to have the captions listed above the table. Supported for Microsoft Word output only. You must update all fields in the Microsoft Word document in order to see and be able to update the value of the field. |
No |
No |
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Adds a table of tables to the output. You must add Table Captions in your document template to generate a table of tables in the output. Supported for Microsoft Word output only. You must update all fields in the Microsoft Word document to see and be able to update the value of the field. |
No |
No |
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Adds a generic Microsoft Word field element. You can type any valid Microsoft Word code in the field code property. Supported for Microsoft Word output only. You must update all fields in the Microsoft Word document to see and be able to update the value of the field. |
No |
No |
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Adds a page number in the output. Supported in Microsoft Word and PDF output only. |
No |
No |
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Adds the total number of pages in the output. Supported for Microsoft Word and PDF output only. |
No |
No |
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Adds a table caption. While you cannot specify dynamic content into a table caption, any subsequent text element is concatenated to it. Supported for Microsoft Word and PDF outputs. You must update all fields in the Microsoft Word document to see and be able to update the value of the field. |
No |
Yes |
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Adds a figure caption. While you cannot specify dynamic content in a figure caption, any subsequent text element is concatenated to it. Supported for Microsoft Word and PDF outputs. You must update all fields in the Microsoft Word document to see and be able to update the value of the field. |
No |
Yes |