Data Tags

Data tags are references through to datasets and fields within your Data Definitions. Therefore you can use data tags where ever a component is connected to a Data Definition. You can reference any of the datasets of fields from the Data Definition.

To determine whether tags can be used check the appropriate topic in this guide regarding the component you are configuring.

Data tags use the special opening tag <% and closing tag %>. Between the tags you need to provide the dataset name and field name separated with a full stop using the format

<%datasetname.fieldname%>

Consider the following dataset within a File Definition.

To reference the ORDER_NO field you would use the tag <%ORD_HEAD.ORDER_NO%>

To reference the SUBTOTAL field you would use the tag <%ORD_HEAD.SUBTOTAL%>

The tag will be translated into a string value based on the Display Format specified for the field.