DISPLAY DOCUMENT
This action displays the specified document on the screen. The action has two variations:
DISPLAY DOCUMENTAttributeIdentifier()[USINGStringLiteral()] [MERGE INTO ONE][AS HTML][AS XLS][IN ZOHO][IN OO][NEW WINDOW][MERGE WITHAttributeIdentifier()]
The action written in this format displays the contents of the attribute of the specified business object, provided that this attribute is of the Document type. Whatever document is stored in the attribute will be displayed – no document processing is performed. For example,
DISPLAY DOCUMENT Statement.StatementDocument
DISPLAY DOCUMENT(Id() | StringLiteral()) [AS MESSAGE][USINGStringLiteral()] [MERGE INTO ONE] [NEW WINDOW][MERGE WITHAttributeIdentifier()][DELETE AFTERINTEGER_LITERAL]
where Id() or StringLiteral() is the name of the document template to be displayed. Before the document template is displayed the action calculates and fills in attribute values used inside tags in the template (see also the “Document Generation” section).
Consider the following rules:
FIND Person WHERE Person.Name='John Smith' DISPLAY DOCUMENT AccountOpeningLetter
where AccountOpeningLetter is the name of the document template. If this template has the following line:
Dear <<Person.Name>>,
it will be replaced with the line
Dear John Smith
when the template is displayed.
AS MESSAGE keyword is specified the text of the document will be displayed in a pop-up message box. This option is only suitable for text or HTML document templates.
USING keyword. AwareIM will use the query as the data source for the document. AwareIM will produce as many documents as there are instances returned by the query. If MERGE INTO ONE keyword is not used AwareIM will display all instances on screen (the user will have to click on an icon next to each entry to see the document). If MERGE INTO ONE keyword is specified AwareIM will automatically merge all documents into one document and show it to the user immediately.
AS HTML keyword can be used to display reports in the HTML format rather than the default PDF format
AS XLS keyword can be used to display reports in the XLS format rather than the default PDF format
NEW WINDOW keyword can be used to display documents in a separate browser window
MERGE WITH keyword can be used to merge the displayed document with any other document stored in some object in an attribute of the DOCUMENT type (at the moment this is only supported for PDF documents), for example
DISPLAY DOCUMENT AccountOpeningLetter MERGE WITH SystemSettings.TermsAndConditionsDoc
DELETE AFTER keyword can be used to specify a number of seconds after which the generated document will be deleted on the server for security reasons. If not specified, the document will be deleted when the user logs out. For example to delete the document after 15 seconds use the following:
DISPLAY DOCUMENT AccountOpeningLetter DELETE AFTER 15