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1. Some services depend on other services system drivers or load order groups If a system component is stopped or is not running propery dependent services can be affected InterFormNG Document Processing Service This service depends on the following system components E ActiveMQ H k Print Spooler Now starting the InterFormNG service will also start ActiveMQ and stopping ActiveMQ will also stop the InterFormNG service 168 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Sending data to message queue Using a message queue with InterFormNG is standard JMS It doesn t matter if you use plain Java or a framework like Spring or Camel For simplicity I ll use Camel InterFormNG will use the queue interform xmlProcessingRequestQueue and the JMS message type javax jms BytesMessage For InterFormNG an XML file coming via a message queue is no different form an XML coming from the filesystem If workflow is disabled the default template will be used System Configurations General System Settings If workflow is enabled the first rule where the conditions matches will be used Workflow Configurations Template Selections The simplest possible scenarie is to send the XML data only But you can add headers to control the processing All InterFormNG metadata is prefixed with the string x interform metadata and to make Camel unescape the I ve added jmsKeyFormatStrategry passthroug
2. Field Type Null Key Default Extra c persist id int 11 NO PRI NULL auto increment c was processed int 11 YES NULL c created date time datetime YES NULL c xml blob NO NULL insert into job c xml c was processed values lt xml gt 0 select from job c persist id c was processed c created date time c xml DRAK ee Ne ee ee E cx E D A EA N PONE a MON FECE aes ae a 1 1 NULL sem Po Depending on what you InterForm NG template does you might get an error Let s add some more information fields to the database On the tab Hibernate Configuration add the following before the line lt class gt lt property name referenceld column C_JOB_REFERENCE property name serviceLockldentifier column C_JOB_ID gt lt property name statusCode column C_STATUS CODE gt property name severityCode columnz C SEVERITY LEVEL gt property name statusMessage column z C STATUS MESSAGE type name com interform400 xml plugin db hibernate TruncatingStringUserT ype gt lt param name maxLength gt 1024 lt param gt lt type gt lt property gt lt property name processedDate
3. describe metadata Field Type Null Key Default Extra id int 11 NO PRI NULL c metadata value varchar 255 YES NULL c metadata key varchar 255 NO PRI NULL p p p p p Try creating a new record This time we also get some metadata back insert into job c xml c was processed values xml 0 select from metadata 1d c metadata value c metadata key ane ia eet oa Se ne re ND SEAS S LOO ieee Fp Ee Pe EE APNE LARES CINE AR CPOE ERE Sc 3 HP Color LaserJet 4700 documentType 3 media interform destination printer mediaSize 3 portrait interform destination printer orientation 3 archive mediaType This data will of course depend on what you do in your template InterForm A S 151 Example Transferring meta data values from a Database into NG This is an example showing how you can transfer Meta data information from your database into InterFormNG Let s say that you want to implement the following ER diagram JOB PK ID lt PRO
4. 26 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Now you can change the port number in the URL above You might get an error message after the change when clicking OK Problem with Shortcut A Cannot apply changes to this Internet Shortcut Even though itis not clear the problem is most likely that you do not have authority to change the file You can give yourself write authority in this manner On the Properties for the webadm file you click the Security tab select your user and click the Edit icon This will open the window on the right Here you activate Allow for Write and click OK 9 webadm Properties Permissions for webadm Object name CAProgram Files InterFormNG webadm url Object name C Program Files interFormNG webadm url Group or user names Group or user names A SYSTEM 82 Administrators sei Administrators Administrators kse i Administrators R Users ksei Users amp i Users ksed Users To change permissions click Edit Permissions for Users Allow Deny Full control Modify Read amp execute Read Write Leam about access control and permissions For special permissions or advanced settings Advanced pr click Advanced Leam about access control and permissions After the change you can click the Web Document tab and change the port number InterForm A S 27 System Configuration General Systems Settings Setting the default
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7. Classification Primary Named Document name ContactID The first XML file Invoice XML is the primary file but in this case we want to refer to a list of the employees of the company to include the name of our contact person in the final output That information is not found in the invoice only an employee number The Contactlnformation xml file looks like this InterForm A S 47 lt xml version 1 0 encoding utf 8 gt lt Root gt lt contact gt lt ID gt 1 lt ID gt lt Name gt Anders Andersen Name e contact lt contact gt lt ID gt 2 lt ID gt lt Name gt Berge Brandmand Name lt contact gt lt contact gt lt ID gt 3 lt ID gt lt Name gt Christian Christiansen lt Name gt lt contact gt lt contact gt lt ID gt 4 lt ID gt lt Name gt Daniel Dane lt Name gt z contact lt contact gt lt ID gt 5 lt ID gt Name Erik the Great Name gt lt contact gt z Root Inside the invoice XML file we have a reference to the ID above as ContactlD in the bottom Meta information gt XML Encoding utf 8 6 XML Version 1 0 amp XML Standalone false Ei Root 6 type invoice 6 output archive 6 language EN Document 576 Company Herring Marine Research Contact person Martin Merman bs Date 20 09 2011 6 DocumentNo 1004 e 6 ContactiD 4 Now we can define an XML cursor to point to the named XML fi
8. On the next screen you can decide which servers to install and if they should be started Below have chosen to start the services after install As default they will not be started InterForm A S 15 E Setup InterFormNG Services Which services should be available and started on this computer Existing services will keep current settings induding user settings New services will be associated with Local System account IMPORTANT Depending on local and network printer access rights it may be necessary to configure alternative user settings manually after install procedure is complete V Processing service Web configuration service Start selected services automatically after install The next screen specifies where InterFormNG is placed in the Start menu folder Alternatively you can chose not to create a Start Menu folder E Setup InterFormNG Select Start Menu Folder Where should Setup place the program s shortcuts Setup will create the program s shortcuts in the following Start Menu folder To continue dick Next If you would like to select a different folder click Browse nterFormNG Don t create a Start Menu folder This screen asks if you want to create a desktop icon and a quick launch icon E Setup InterFormNG Select Additional Tasks Which additional tasks should be performed Select the additional tasks you would like Setup to perform while installing InterFo
9. to simply cut the text element at the specified width On the Origin tab of the text style you see this Properties Unset Top Center Baseline gt Bottom Text Unset Auto Left Center Right Numeric Unset Standard Decimal point Vertical origin W hat reference point to use when positioning the text Top means that the top of the text will be placed on the vertical position stated and that the text will grow downwards if you later increase the size ext gy Center The middle of the text is used Bottom The very bottom of the text is the reference origin Text jgy Baseline The baseline of the text is used as reference as shown below Tex You should avoid using Bottom unless necessary as this is not supported for rotation 90 180 and 270 for ZPL output InterForm A S 59 Horizontal origin How to place the text relative to the position stated Here you can e g make the text right adjusted or centred Auto W orks like left origin Left Default Use the left of the text as origin reference Text Center Centers the text around the origin Text Right Use the right of the text as the origin Text Numeric origin The numeric origin setting is used for texts that have been set to be numeric It sets the horizontal alignment for those The possible values are Standard Default Use whatever is setup for nor
10. 130 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 lt documenttype name Letter gt ean lt value gt true lt value gt lt print gt lt printer gt lt value gt printer2 lt value gt Gordie gt lt interactive gt lt value gt false lt value gt lt interactive gt lt attributes gt attribute name j Chromaticity gt lt value gt color lt value gt lt attribute gt lt attribute name Finishings gt lt value gt staple lt value gt lt attribute gt lt attributes gt lt documenttype gt lt documentTypes gt You can define several document types to cover the possible printing preferences there might be Within each document type you can set these basic settings as shown above print If true the PDF file will be printed If false nothing will be printed printer W hat printer to use Refer to the printer ID as defined above under Printers interactive Should an interactive dialog be opened to ask for printing preferences Set this to true or false Below is the list of printing attributes and examples of possible values Remember that document types should only select attributes and values that are supported by the used printer as listed in the printer type Some printers might offer support for more or fewer values check the specific printer with the printconfig command as described above InterForm A S 131 Attribute Description Examples of values Copies An integer v
11. 6 Settings 8 rg Import a l Elements e Group all LA ll Il Now the design elements on the left are shown x E an D a la a F AY FEAD i If you place the mouse over an icon a pop up text will describe the icon If you place the mouse over the rightmost icons additional elements simular to the first one is also shown like thiS m demoiitpl InterFormNG Designer 17 0 5N File Edit Setup Display Help jw e ji 5S In the case above you can see that the current icon is a text element The icon to the right of it is the text style element marked with a blue S in the bottom right corner The style elements has an effect on the subsequent design elements in the template This means e g that the top text style element with the icon looking like this A Can set the font type e g arial the size and if the texts inserted 56 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 now should be bold italic or underlined All styles takes effect until another style of the same type overwrites the settings It is a good idea to start your template by setting styles for most of the element types especially the Text style the icon above before adding a page element This makes it easier to find the styles if you later would want to change them The text style must also be set before the page element to avoid an error For the physical elements like e g the text element you should first selec
12. Description From Top 0 10 Left 12 80 Use offset variable To Top 0 40 Left 13 40 Use offset variable Design resource Reference MyLocalFile The positions above specifies an area in which this will be inserted The clip will fit the size of this area y As the Design resource you can refer to a file which you have previously imported refer to page 53 This will be used for previews in the designer instead of the real resource referred to later With the Display name tab you can set a text to be displayed when the mouse pointer is just above this link concat Data sheet for Product Cursor name Target Current node Context nodes Selection result Normalize Decode The result is shown on the previous page as the yellow frame on the right In this example we are using Xpath to state a dynamic text where the fixed text Data sheet for is followed by a value found in the XML file Product Alternatively you can also select a constant variable function or even a value from a translation table InterForm A S 83 The Resource location tab is for selecting the file to be embedded Resource locaton Selection input Xpath Text Selection input Xpath Select from document concat file C Temp Product Cursor name Target Current node Context nodes Selection result Mormalize Decode In the case above the complete X
13. Error printing xxx document already printing If you see the error message Error processing print job Error printing xxx document already printing in the service log file while no print result can be found then someone probably accessed the windows machine via Remote Desktop The user under which the InterFormNG processor service is running should not be used for signing on when accessing the machine on which InterFormNG is running If it is necessary to do that then you need to make sure that no printers are shared on the client machine that is accessing via remote desktop or make sure that there is not printer named the same as a shared printer on the client The web service stops to work Take care if you clean up the C windows temp diretory as InterFormNG has some work files here InterFormNG creates a subdirectory inside this If you delete this then the web service will stop working with this error message in the log file File login jsp not found In the future the temp directory will be moved elsewhere To solve the issue you should just restart the web service 24 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Configuring InterFormNG When InterFormNG is to convert new XML files into PDF files e mails with an attached PDF file or a printed result you will need to configure InterFormNG and the necessary plugins Below it is described how to setup InterFormNG to enable each of these outputs and other options The se
14. In the stylesheet you can then refer to the value of this parameter as detail We will use this parameter to insert the detail branch when building up the structure of the new XML files For the example above the stylesheet could be this lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt xsl stylesheet xmlns xsl http www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform version 1 0 gt xsl param name detail lt xsl template match gt lt order gt lt xsl copy of select orders header gt lt xsl copy of select orders footer gt lt xsl copy of select Sdetail parent customernumber gt lt xsl copy of select Sdetail gt lt order gt lt xsl template gt lt xsl stylesheet gt The first two lines defines the stylesheet and the 3 line defines the parameter detail Lines 4 11 retrieves the header footer and customer number from the input XML file and stores them in the new xml file s Next the new XML file is defined by copying the complete branches and inserting them in the structure as we want Before you use xslt you make yourself familiar with the format e g via online introductions like http www w3schools com xsl We save the xslt as the file split example xslt in the transform folder within the resource folder We will use the xslt for advanced transforming below Advanced transforming On page 115 we defined a simple split of the example xml file This resulted in 3 files which contained the data from t
15. KSE admin true tue Password CELIT user false true m as is Is Administrator W Is Enabled Ed InterForm A S 29 Input Configuration In the web interface you can setup the different input options by selecting Input Configurations InterForm New Gen pe Home s System Configurations Input Configurations a2 Processing l File System Configuration l Txt to XML Configuration 4 Database Configuration X Network Configuration Enterprise Integration Configuration amp Scheduled Trigger Configuration Socket Trigger Configuration Each option is described below File System Configuration This is where you setup which directory to monitor for new XML files This is setup by selecting Input Configuration and then File System Configuration General Settings Active Yes Source Folder S amp TINTERFORMN G HOME xml inbox Split active Mo Stylesheet S INTERFORMMNG_HOME resources stylesheet split xslt XPath jroot detail Processing Priority Mormal These are the configuration parameters Active Select Yes to activate this plugin Source Folder Here you can active the monitoring of new incoming XML files and state the directory to monitor for new files INTERFORMNG HOME refers to the home directory which is stored in the systems environment variable Instead of using this you can also specify the complete path When used new subdirectories in the monitored directory will
16. Make sure InterFormNG can find the JDBC driver One way to do that is to copy the JDBC driver to Java s lib ext directory On Fedora Linux with OpenJDK that would be something like cp usr share Java mysql connector java jar user lib vm jre 1 7 0 openjdk x86 64 lib ext You can download the JDBC driver from MySQL s homepage 148 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Configure InterFormNG s Database plugin Open a browser and go to http localhost 8080 webapp springmvc Select Input Configurations Database Configuration On the first tab General Settings enter the following Driver Name com mysql jdbc Driver Password interformPassword Database URL jdbc mysagl localhost 3306 interform Database Username interformUser Active Yes Processing Priority Normal If you are using another database server driver database user etc you ll have to change it On the second tab Hibernate Settings enter the following Hibernate Dialect org hibernate dialect MySQL5InnoDB Dialect DDL Strategy update Show SQL No If you are using an existing database and table s the Hibernate Dialect might not be needed But if you want InterFormNG to create the database and table s it is needed BE VERY CAREFULL WITH THE DDL STRATEGY On a running system it should ALWAYS be empty But you can use it to make InterFormNG create or update the database and table s For more information google hibernate hbm2ddl auto or see any book about Hibe
17. Multiple file extensions are separated with a comma like txt TXT csv CSV Files with extensions not listed are ignored File encoding The encoding of the input text file use e g utf 8 Utf 16 iso 8859 1 etc Separation Regex The character used as separator between each field node Trim Whitespace State if any leading and trailing blanks whitespaces should be removed when converting into XML Line number attribute If activated each line in the text file will be numbered in the output XML file If activated it is possible to select a specific line from the node name Token index attribute If activated each field token node on each lines will be numered If not activated all fields nodes will be named the same Copy enabled Normally the resulting XML files goes directly into the engine of InterFormNG but if this is set the XML files will also be copied to the directory set below 154 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Copy Target Folder The path of the directory where the XML files are copied to if the Copy enabled option above is activated InterForm A S 155 Appendix G The PDF Security Module If you want encrypt and password protect or digitally sign the PDF files created by InterFormNG then you need to purchase the NG PDF Security Module No additional installation is needed as the objects are included in the InterFormNG core You create the PDF files in the normal manner and set some meta data keys
18. Templates Selection AddRule RemoveRule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Actions Name Add Condition Cheques Condition Type Specification Operator Value Default print out XPATH Root type EQUALS cheque Notice that the first rule is checking for cheques before the default one Under Action each rule selects different printers The default print out rule use a condition which is always true Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Actions Name Add Condition Remove Condition Cheques Condition Type Specification Operator Value Default print out XPATH Ir LIKE E The cheques XML files might also be identified by a special file name e g Cheques followed by a date like Cheques 2013 12 12 xml A test only valid for such file names and contents above could be Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Actions Name Add Condition Remove Condition Cheques Condition Type Specification Operator Value Default print out XPATH Root type EQUALS cheques AND FILENAME LIKE Chegue You can even use a meta data value as a part of the condition The meta data value could come from a database plugin or when using the workflow output configuration it could also have been set in the template In the template you could e g do some comparisons calculations to find out what kind of paper that should be used and signal that back to the workflow as an extra
19. Transform Actions Add Action Remove Action Template Output Type default You also need to make sure that you tell InterFormNG to process any transformed files via Input Configurations and File System Configuration and set Process transformed xmls to Yes g Home General Settings J System Configurations Input Configurations a Processir File System Configuration mm Yes ll Txt to XML Configuration Source Folder S INTERFC 4 Database Configuration Process transformed xmls fj Yes x Network Configuration Processing Priority Normal r Breed were adaware amp Scheduled Trigger Configuration amp Socket Trigger Configuration You do not need to set the output folder for the transformed files Here we have defined that only invoice 101 should be converted into a PDF file Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Mame 1 lonly Condition XPATH jinvoice invoicenumber EQUALS 101 Transform Split XPath Expression Transformation stylesheet Folder Action Type archive template example L1 itpl interform plugin archiver folderName 101 Conditions Transform Actions Add Condition Remove Condition Creating xml files in specific folders Please notice the folder option of the transform Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Name 101only default Condition Type Specification Operator XPATH finvoice invoicenumber E
20. Upper right Lower left Lower right Box fill Unset w Stroke The width of the lines used This is measured in whatever measurement you have chosen so usually this will not be a whole number but rather e g 0 05 or simular Box corner rounding circle radius The radius of the circle for which a circle arc is used as a corner Specify 0 for a sharp corner or the radius of the circle for a round corner Notice Round corners are not supported for ZPL output Any rounded corners are in ZPL printed as sharp Box fill Set this to On if you want to fill out the inside of the boxes inserted after the style Barcode style lle The barcode style determines what kind of barcode you insert the coming times a barcode element is executed The properties of the barcode style are these Properties Alignment Vertical Unset A Top Baseline Bottom Horizontal Unset Left Right Barcodes styles Type rov SE RN Height Module width 1 1000 Display text Unset Off On Checksum Unset T Module ratio Alignment How the barcode will be positioned relative to reference point You should avoid using Bottom unless necessary as this is not supported for rotation 90 180 and 270 for ZPL output Type The type of barcode e g Code39 Code128 etc The displayed selection of the remaining options will depend on what you select here If you have upgraded to a 2014 version or newer
21. to select between plain paper and preprinted paper The best way to select the drawer is to set the paper type of each drawer on the printer and then insert a PCL command to select the same paper type Here is a list of the available paper types Paper type Command Plain EC6W dPlain Bond EC5W dBond Color EC6W dColor Labels EC7WadLabels Recycled EC9W dRecycled Letterhead EC11WdLetterhead Cardstock EC10W dCard Stock Prepunched EC11W dPrepunched Preprinted EC11WdPreprinted Transperancy EC13WdTransparency Please notice that the PCL commands must be written exactly as above They are case sensitive and the space between d and S in EC10WdCard Stock must be included InterForm A S 107 Notice that even though the printer menu might show each of these printer types in your local language you should still use the english command shown above If the printer does not support selection of the drawer via the paper type you can use an alternative command EC amp l H where the is a PCL drawer number So if you e g want to select PCL drawer 5 the command is EC amp I5H Please notice that the PCL drawer number can range from 1 to 255 and is NOT the same number as the physical drawer on the printer and that the number depends on the exact printer model used For some printer you even need to select drawer numbers in the range 250 255 If you want to insert mu
22. with one or more staples wire stitches along the middle fold edge stitch Bind the document s with one or more staples wire stitches along one edge staple top left Bind the document s with one or more staples in the top left corner staple bottom left Bind the document s with one or more staples in the bottom left corner staple top right Bind the document s with one or more staples in the top right corner staple bottom right Bind the document s with one or more staples in the bottom right corner Continues on next page Attribute Description Examples of values InterForm A S 133 Finishings edge stitch left continued Bind the document s with one or more staples wire stitches along the left edge edge stitch top Bind the document s with one or more staples wire stitches along the top edge edge stitch right Bind the document s with one or more staples wire stitches along the right edge edge stitch bottom Bind the document s with one or more staples wire stitches along the bottom edge staple dual left Bind the document s with two staples wire stitches along the left edge assuming a portrait document staple dual top Bind the document s with two staples wire stitches along the top edge assuming a portrait document staple dual right Bind the document s with two staples wire stitches along the right edge assuming a portrait document staple dual bottom Bind the doc
23. 6 2 substring date 9 2 su bstring date 1 4 concat substring date 3 2 substring date 9 2 su bstring date 6 2 concat substring date 6 2 substring Q date 9 2 su bstring date 3 2 concat substring date 7 4 substring Q dat e 1 2 substri ng date 4 2 concat substring Q date 7 4 substring dat e 4 2 substri ng date 1 2 No action needed concat substring date 4 2 substring dat e 1 2 substri ng date 7 4 concat substring Q date 9 2 substring dat e 1 2 substri ng date 4 2 concat substring date 4 2 substring dat e 1 2 substri ng date 9 2 concat 20 s ubstring date 7 2 substring date 4 2 substring date 1 2 concat 20 s ubstring date 7 2 substring date 1 2 substring date 4 2 concat substr ing Q date 4 2 subst ring date 1 2 20 Substring date 7 2 concat substr ing Q date 1 2 subst ring date 4 2 20 substring date 7 2 2014 31 08 08 31 2014 31 08 14 31 8 14 concat 20 substring after s ubstring after date substring 0 1 2 string length substring before
24. An advantage with this function is that you can then later reposition elements by changing the value of such an offset pr TL Offset H E Statics fl I Fixed Area Name FlowTop Offset FlowTop 5cm Protected E pe e Top cmn ye 6 amp Offset update FlowTop 1cm Top 5 Left 1 Use offset variable 7 T Use offset variable J Offset name FlowTop Offset applies to Both cordinates Left C Top On the right you see an example of how the Offset can be combined with a flow area to have different sized headers on page 1 and subsequent pages in the output The offset has one value when entering the flow area to be used for page 1 and is immediately change to the size of the subsequent pages InterForm A S 87 Offset update d With this element you can change the value of an existing offset already defined Mame FlowTop Positi Top 1 Left 1 Use offset variable Refer to the Offset element above for an example of how to use this Variable Element With this element you declare create a new variable element The variable name and value is set like shown below where the variable Test is assigned the value This is the value of my variable Properties ID Variable Properties Variable Name Test Mame filename Protected Selection input Selection input Xpath Substitute variables 7 Constant Text Substitute variables 7 S
25. Encoding utf 8 6 XML Version 1 0 6 XML Standalone false Root 6 type invoice 6 output archive fC Group all 6 language DE Document 76 Company Herring Marine Research 6 Contact person Martin Merman l ps Date 20 09 2011 DocumentNo 1004 Adress Seaweed Street 14 i pa 6 Adress 9000 Battleaxe A Hello World example Here we will go through a simple Hello World example We want to create an output with the simple text Hello World on a page and then also include a text from an XML file Before you start the designer you need to copy some fonts to the resources fonts directory as mentioned on page 46 If you have an XML file you can also copy that to the resources document directory in the InterFormNG data directory or you can use one of the demo XML files which are included in resources document Intro Now start the designer The designer starts up with a new template form or overlay You can now import your XML file by selecting this icon E NEW TEMPLATE InterFormNG Designer File Edit Setup View Help 42 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Then select your XML file Settings amp 3 Import E l XML documents L H E Temp H Resources al ow oe Open resource repository browser Before proceeding you should now save close and reopen the template That will make it possible to see the XML contents in the De
26. HAVA HONE binjawa Djavaz gol transform Tr ansformerFactory Org apac he Be aapalliamnce 1 0 jar lib service asm asm 3 3 interform4at xml common z0l3 eo Jar lib service com interform4DD xml i xtens T EJ Sn Pn PA ES lib service com interform400 2ol plugin plugin ci 13 B525 jar lil service com interform4 0 xml psendoformat z 1s Ab2 5 jar workf low interface 2013 8525 jar lit servicecom interforw400 20 ml Above the path to InterFormNG is ng 2013 R525 8 Now we want to install service aix sh and service web aix sh as daemons with these commands mkitab interform 2 respawn interformng service aix sh mkitab interformWeb 2 respawn interformng service web aix sh 9 Fix preview in designer You need to do the equivalent to this dependent on the operating system vi user profiles default client properties previewCommand usr bin open absoluteFileName OSX previewCommand usr bin evince absoluteFileName Linux InterForm A S 147 Appendix E Processing a Database It is possible to let InterFormNG use database entries as input The XML file is here to be inserted into a field Below this possibility is described when implemented with MySQL and Linux InterFormNG uses JDBC and Hibernate to connect to the database In this example we will use MySQL running on the same server as InterFormNG But any database server should work as long as there is a suitable JDBC driver Using Hib
27. If you are running JRE 6 you can currently download Java Cryptography Extension JCE via this link http www oracle com technetwork java javasebusiness downloads java archive downloads ja va plat 419418 html jce_policy 6 oth JPR Signing a PDF file If you have fixed the prerequisites you can now start to digitally sign PDF files This is simply done by assigning values to these meta data keys Meta data key Description pdfCertificate fileName The certificate file Should contain the absolute path or the path relative to INTERFORMNG_HOME resources certificates pdfCertificate alias A pkcs 12 is able to contain multiple certificates So you need to state the alias of the one to use pdfCertificate password The password needed to open certificate file Here is an example of how this can be setup r amp Settings H Import E Elements G Top sg E Metadata C pdfCertificate fileName C Kim pw password v2 pfx gt Metadata C pdfCertificate alias C le 7e788873 11e0 4384 9f8b 38ac1ced5d1b mm B Metadata C pdfCertificate password C password 6 Page style Ps Text style Source Sans Pro 12 0 l Page Above the certificate file is placed in INTERFORMNG_HOME resources certificates has an alias that is le 7e788873 11e0 4384 9f8b 38ac1ced5d1b and the password for the file is simply password The signed PDF file may now look something like this F IFNGPreview 2938668051655205948 pd
28. If you want to create PDF files you need to enable this option in the web interface and set the meta data mediaType to archive The path to state where the PDF files will be created is combined of 2 parts 1 The root directory within all PDF files will be created This is setup in the server via the web interface 2 The directory above will be combined or concatenated with the path stated in the meta data key interform plugin archiver folderName which you should assign in the used template The output file name will be the default name setup in the web configuration unless you have specified the file name via the meta data key interform plugin archiver fileName in the template The setup of the pdf attributes for the server is setup as shown on page 36 Setting up e mailing E mailing from InterFormNG require that you setup the emailing refer to a mail server in the web config e g as shown on page 37 Here you can also state default subject and the default contents defined in an rtf or html file Both of these can however be overridden by assigning values to these meta data keys email subject and email templateName Notice also that the email template rtf or html can refer to meta data set in the template You can also refer to an email local via the 3 meta data keys for email locale as shown below They should be added to the email template name in the same sequence as listed below email template lang
29. InterFormNG When you design your template layout you can use the many styles to tell InterFormNG how to format the output In this section each style is described Any property that is set to the value Unset simply is unchanged so it will have whatever value it had before this style element or the default value if it was never set Text style Ts This is a text style Insert this style to tell InterFormNG what font and font attributes you want to use for the subsequent text elements The style element has these properties Font Family Source Sans Pro Size 11 0 Bold Unset Off 7 On Italic Unset A Off 7 On Underline Unset Off A On Width adjustment Unset Left Center Right Bounding control Bounds control Unset Logical Physical Bounds overflow Unset 0 Ignore Break Cut Family The type of font to use The possible fonts are limited to the fonts that you have imported as described on page 46 You can also specify Unset for this field if you want to keep a font family previously set Size The size of the font measured by the height in dots Bold Italic Underline Chose if the font should be Bold italic or underlined Width adjustment If you have set the text element to a fixed width like described on page 73 then you can use this to horizontally position the text inside the reserved area Left Positions the text on the left Default Center Centers t
30. InterFormNG it is recommended to do test print outs to verify that the barcodes has been converted OK If you have any concerns about this conversion Please contact your local InterForm support Feel free to contact Us also prior to the upgrade if you want a free analysis of what changes you may expect if when upgrading Conversion tool When you do an upgrade from a pre 2014 version to a 2014 version or newer then all templates need to be converted The most efficient way to do that is to use the conversion tool which you asked to start as the last step of the upgrade InterForm A S 165 You can also chose to only convert some of your templates at a time and run the conversion tool by selecting Start Programs InterFormNG and TemplateConverter You can also find the Conversion tool here C Program Files InterFormNG TemplateConverter exe InterFormNG on the Web InterFormNG web admin Z TemplateConverter i Uninstall InterFormNG imet It is recommended to convert the templates If you do not then the templates will be converted each time the template is opened in either the designer or the processor service causing a slower performance Saving an open template from the designer will save it as a converted template but not any referenced templates When you start the conversion tool you will see this Template Converter File INTERFORMNG HOME C nterFormHG
31. Pens 86 Define Cursor Element 20052 0 eee eee 87 select Cursor Element 2 002 eee eee 87 i e os oes geese et oe SUE RSEN ES UM eee eee 87 Offset updalg uiu ism dq S REQUE REIR SP EEG RE OPE hs 88 Variable Element 22 aba Soc enden ego E VE Eo Rohr ee 88 Variable Update Element 0200000005 88 Metadata Element em cse et bebceoeededenceescs 89 Combining Styles and groupS n s aaa aaa 90 Other important icons and design settingS a na aaa aa 92 Design examples and UpSvs aura zm ee ee ee ee ee ee p t e cit 93 Keuse OUPS spe sdeon bees 6 es O48 eee es teen ens eee Bede dix 93 Create Fixed areas when possible lille 93 TAGPO zi PITT 95 The Page Statie grOUD ai645225 6548455 64555 5506 4243933329322 35 96 Solution to Element unreachable 000000 ee 97 There are errors in the template llle 98 Setting up InterFormNG for automatic conversions es 99 Installing Uninstalling the Services llle 99 Configuring the Services aaa 99 Starting and stopping the Services 0 000000 ee eee 100 Using the Document Processor Service 00 000 eee eee 101 Setting up automatic printing aaa aaaea 101 Setting up automatic PDF creation 0 000000 eee ee 102 Selling UP e malllhg ss 6k ritira s Enpa E EENET 3243 5x5 102 Selecting the output via metadata aaa ee 103 Genera
32. Receiver ReceiverLine sequence 1 This will retrieve the value Dr Ing H c F Porsche AG in the label above by selecting the ReceiverLine element where the attribute sequence equals 1 InterForm A S 123 You can also retrieve an attribute If you e g consider this addition to the type element above Meta information i XML Encoding is0 3359 1 6 XML Version 1 0 XML Standalone false c Data is xmins xsi http veveve vu3 org 2001 XMI Schema instance EB x Header ci Type VDA4902 Do 49 MITES demo With this XPath specification you will retrieve the value of the attribute mytype of the Type element Data Header Type Q mytype So use the sign to refer to attributes If you only specify the Xpath to a level with subelements then all subelements are also included in the result If you e g state the XPath Data Header you will get this result VDA4902 A5 PORSCHE STANDARD wernert 1 001 1 DEFAULT DEFAULT If you want to concatenate constants with data from the XML file you can use the concat function e g like this concat ABCD Data Header Type EFGH This inserts the XML data right in between the constants ABCDVDA4902 EFGH You may notice that there above is a blank between the XML data and the trailing constant You can remove that by removing leading and trailing blanks of the XML data like so concat ABCD normalize space Data Header Type EFGH You can also subs
33. XML file into a field in a database while even setting one or more meta data keys with the database plugin General Settings Hibernate Settings Hibemate Configuration Driver Name com mysql jdbc Driver Password T ae Database URL jdbc mysql l ocalhast interformDatabase Username interformUser Active Yes Processing Priority Normal General Settings Hibemate Settings Hibemate Configuration Hibernate Dialect org hibernate dialect MySQL5InnoDBDialect DDL Strategy update Show SQL No The database should be accessed via a JDBC driver An example using a MYSQL database is included in Appendix D on page 148 Network configuration The network configuration sets some of the network properties for the Socket option which is described later General Settings Active No Port Number 9091 Processing Priority Normal i Immediate Normal Batch Here you enable the network processing and set the port number and priority used for socket requests As seen the possible priorities are Immediate Normal and Batch Enterprise Integration Configuration With this you are using a message queue for telling InterFormNG when a new XML file is available General Settings Broker URL tcp localhost 61616 Reply Timeout 60000 Password Port Number 5672 Server Name localhost User Name guest Active Yes Processing Priority Normal Scheduled Trigger Configuration Use this option to activate the
34. and then Services or e g type Services here or select Start and type in Services here Services x 100 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 3 Now you can chose to stop start or restart both InterFormNG services File Action View Help e e 0 E abl H m m n mp C4 Services Local LA Services Local InterFormNG Document Processing Name Description Status Startup Type SA Interactive Services Detection Enables use Manual 1 InterFormNG Document Processing Service Started Automatic Stop the service n Restart the service Se InterFormNG Web Configuration Service Started Automatic Using the Document Processor Service You can envoke the Document Processor service in a few ways 1 You can make the processor monitor a directory for new XML files and make it react whenever a new XML file arrives here 2 You can include the XML file as a field in a database and use a JDBC driver to make the processor react to that Refer to page 148 for details 3 You can use the workflow in combination with both options above to configure how the XML files should be processed The workflow setup is described on page 109 4 Instead of the workflow you can also let the default template of the processor branch out to the relevant template and itself set all necessary meta data to specify the output that you want 5 You can also call the processor via a socket call e g for p
35. columnz C PRINTED DATE TIME gt property name processingPriority gt column namez C PRIORITY default 1 gt lt property gt lt map table METADATA name metaData lazy false gt lt key column id gt index column C_METADATA_KEY type string gt element column C_METADATA_VALUE type string gt lt map gt Save and restart service linux sh In the mysql session you ll notice that there are now 2 tables 150 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 show tables Tables in interformDatabase ERE EE A E i job metadata describe job Field Type Null Key Default Extra c persist id int 11 NO PRI NULL auto increment c was processed int 11 YES NULL c created date time datetime YES NULL e e blob NO NULL c job reference varchar 255 YES NULL c job id varchar 255 YES NULL c status code varchar 255 YES NULL c severity level int 11 YES NULL c status message varchar 255 YES NULL c printed date time datetime YES NULL c priority int 11 YES 1
36. combined introduction and demo of the designer The leftmost window displays the list of design elements the middle contains a demo xml file and the rightmost window displays the result For a first time user it is recommended to read gt InterForm A S 39 the all the pages in the result view to get a fast introduction You can click through the pages with the arrow icon on the top right 40 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 the resources for this intro template are stored in subdirectories called intro Disabling the Intro template The intro template is shown each time you open the designer unless you select Setup and Demo options and remove the flag for Open Demo template on startup You can create a new template either by selecting File and New overlay in the upper menu or by clicking on this icon on the upper left at Changing the settings for a new template The new template is born with predefined elements to help you to get starting The basis for the new template is a template called default itpl so if you want new templates to open with other elements or different settings then you can simply save it to a template called default itpl You can use this if you e g want to change the default page size in the page style into the letter size as used in e g US If you want to open an existing template you select File and Open or click this 2 icon on the upper
37. conversion can also be run after the upgrade as described on page 165 New Module JD Edwards EnterpriseOne connector e Creates XML files from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne which can be used as input in InterFormNG Based on UBE Universal Batch Engine and handles standard and customized reports The module is listed on page 21 License code is now required e In older versions you could use InterFormNG without a license code This caused a TRIAL EDITION text to be added to the output Now a license code is required for the processor service and the designer You can request a 7 days test license during installation upgrade and via the web interface This is described on page 14 and 18 InterForm A S 11 Getting Started The idea of the following procedure is to give you a safe and easy start with the InterFormNG system No knowledge on InterFormNG is required and only minor Windows knowledge is needed Knowledge of Xpath can be useful but a short introduction is included in an appendix The main features of InterFormNG is that it is able to transform XML files into PDF files or a printed result The product is java based so it is a platform independent application During the transformation a design including graphics fonts frames lines etc is added Here the installation and use is mainly shown when used with Microsoft Windows Prerequisites e Java Runtime Environment 1 6 or newer must be installed It is recommended a
38. font size for some texts then this element will increase the line height ColumnBreak Element Works like the NewLine element except that this element force a column break i e force the flow area to continue on a new column if more than 1 column is defined If the current column is the last on the page a new page is issued PageBreak Element al Works like the NewLine and ColumnBreak elements The PageBreak element will force a page break if used inside a flow area Link Element With the link element you can embed a file in the PDF files that you create You can embed any file format This can e g be used for adding a descriptive document for each detail line in the main document like below or e g for adding the general terms and conditions into invoices 82 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Product Model l Group License code Swiftview 50 44B4011 DO 44 A9 FF InterExcel400 44A3531 F4 5F 13 31 InterForm400 4449079 F2 E7 20 AA i InterForm400 44B2031 AA BB 01 23 InterForm400 44D3971 1A BC DE 44 InterForm400 44A1460 79 10 22 F1 InterForm400 44A3773 4E FF 01 33 InterForm400 44A1597 DO 99 70 07 You open the embedded file by clicking this icon i You can also specify a display name which is shown when your mouse pointer is set to this position This is shown above on the right The links embedded files above have been setup inside a ForEach loop like below Properties Display name Resource location
39. for either encrypting or digitally signing the PDF files The settings are done by assigning values to meta data keys Assigning meta data keys can be done in 3 ways 1 In a template as described on page 89 2 In the workflow as shown on page 112 3 By transferring values with the XML file in a database refer to page 152 Encryption and password protection In order to encrypt and password protect the PDF files you need to assign values to these meta data keys Meta data Key Value pdfProtection ownerPassword Password pdfProtection userPassword Password pdfProtection restrictions COpy edit print The first two sets the password for the owner and the user When you open the PDF file you will be prompted for a password If you type in the owner password the PDF file will be opened with full rights pdfProtection restrictions can be assigned to these values Case sensitive lt Blank gt The user password gives full access copy Copy of text in the PDF is not allowed edit Edit changes of the PDF is not allowed print Print of the PDF is not allowed You can combine multiple restrictions with a comma like shown above i6 WARNING amp If you do not assign a value to the user password or if the user password is blank then the Adding a digital signature With the module it is possible to add a digital signature You can use the digital signature to prove who created the PDF file in order to make it a legal
40. gt foxtrot lt orderline gt lt orderline gt golf lt orderline gt orderline hotel orderline lt order lLine gt india lt orderline gt lt invoice gt lt customer gt lt orders gt This functionality will be described while working on this xml file The XML file contains elements that are in common which might be included in each of the resulting XML files and it contains multiple nodes Invoices which is the basis of the split so that each Invoice branch will result in a new XML file If you do not want to include any common nodes in the new xml files then you can skip the XSLT description below and just define the path for the node that should be the used as basis for the split Activating the transform function The transform function is activated only via the workflow via the web interface so in order to use this you first need to activate the workflow refer to page 109 for details Under Workflow and Template Selections you can setup the transform InterForm New Generation ea Home s System Configurations Input Configurations EU Processing Output Configurations i i _i n oa Template Selections Templates Selection z uh Tuc cc n k AddRule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Transform Actions O tPut Configurations The next thing is to add a rule to be triggered for the xml file s that should be transformed You should refer to t
41. i platform the InterXML iFormNG400 product is recommended which includes the InterFormNG product Installing Java Runtime Environment Before installing InterFormNG you need to install Java Runtime Environment version 1 6 or 1 7 You should use a newer version if possible Currently you can download Java Runtime Environment JRE version 1 7 from here http www oracle com technetwork java javase downloads java se jre 7 download 432155 html Installing Java on windows require you to run the actual installer not copying the JRE directory to the machine Installing Java Runtime Environment on Windows If you are already using the InterForm400 graphical designer then JRE is already installed If you already have installed a 32bit JRE on a 64 bit machine then you need also to install a 12 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 64bit JRE and make sure that InterFormNG is using the 64 bit JRE That can be ensured by adding an enviroment variable called INTERFORM NG JAVA HOME The value for this should be the path to the Java library e g C Program Files Java jre 7 You can add change an environment variable via Control Panel System and Advanced System settings on the left Now click Environment variables in the bottom of the next window and then click New under System variables System Properties INTERFORM_NG_JAVA_HOME C Program Files Java jre7 x j ewe J Variable Value configsetroot C Wind
42. interform metadata interform plugin integration folderNam e C ProgramData InterFormNG temp2 where to store temporary files be byte result byte producer requestBodyAndHeaders endpoint body getBytes headers the generated artifact is returned File pdfFile File createTempFile MQDemo pdf change extension to match MIME type of the returned artifact OutputStream os new FileOutputStream pdfFile os write result os close Runtime getRuntime exec new String rundll132 url dll FileProtocolHandler pdfFile getAbsolutePath System exit 0 170 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Index Archiving Create index xml file 65225525 74 Background image 00e eae 22 Configuration USES 24d dR bd ee ed eee eee ee eS 29 Conversion of templates 2 5 2 02sehe eee rn 165 Current po 72 Ij Pep 2 Data types BOGGA y ar Ug e EER ERRANEN E T3 br tem T3 bie PC se ou 13 Date FOMA T 61 Design elements ADDENG 2252456206848 805 dici B 508 OR Ad OS 88 Barcodes zo inte da oe thee E ee ons 76 zo P A 76 ColumnBreak essel 82 Define GCUESOF 224 6cevasevea Rr Re sh 87 Fixed area ee eee ewe eee ees T9 FOW adu nu bette 5285460505 80560552 81 mico CMM E 86 Co P 19 ee ee ee eee eee eee 84 nire ee ee ee ee ese ee es eee TT lere lt EE
43. into logical sections making it easier to maintain your template You group elements by placing them in the same group element This makes it very easy if you want to change the position for them all or change another style attribute You also need to group all elements in the template if you want it all be executed when included e g from the main template used for the processor service Layout Template settings Properties Export Mame Set name fo alow extemal use of element Flow control Block cope control Keepstyles Scope control Keep styles you can make InterFormNG remembering the styles after exiting the subtree This is the same as for the Label element above Include Element The Include element includes a section element from this or another template e In order to do this you will first need to 1 State an export name in the section element in the other template 2 Import the other template in this template Template i Element a Scope control Keep styles Simply refer to the template and element above If you want to include an element from the current template then you just leave the template field blank Note that you can even do recursive includes __ Fixed Area e InterForm A S 79 Use the element to group elements physically together Then you can move all elements inside by moving the complete area This can also be used inside a flow are
44. left of the screen n Opening an XML file for designing When you want to design create a template you should use it to redesign an XML file By selecting the yellow Import folder and then the subfolder XML documents and the Top inside you can refer to an XML file by clicking this icon on the left XML E NEW TEMPLATE InterFormNG Design d File Edit Setup View Help Ta is ux 6 Settings AiL i 3 ow Elf Import Bi Et XML documents ie Le When you click the icon you add a reference to an XML document You refer to the document by clicking this icon in the bottom of the screen F Right here File Cy Document classification Primary Meta Named Please notice The XML file MUST be in the right directory in order to be shown in the designer The correct directory is Resources document in the InterFormNG data directory as specified during installation It might be necessary to save the template and close and open the template again to be able to view the XML file in the designer in the XML Documents window InterForm A S 41 ie Training Training_IF400_invoice itp kse 25 11 2011 17 16 34 Revision 1 0 8 InterFormNG Designer 2011 5 0 SNAPSHOT Repository File Edit Setup View Help gos A a fe iy INES s s 55e oO Bb sS to Qa T i erg XML documents ja e Elements IF400 Demo Spooled File invoice archive DE xml e Ei Meta information 6 XML
45. on page 119 If you add any actions under the Actions tab then these will be executed for all the new transformed XML files Before we run the transformation it is a good idea to check out if the transformed splitted XML files are used as input in the workflow You can set that via Input Configurations and File System Configuration InterForm New Gegi Yes Source Folder S INTERFORMNG HOME xml_inbox Home System Configurations Input Configurations Proces Process transformed xmls No G Sein l File System Configuration Processing Priority Mormal The Process transformed xmls setting defines if you want to run the transformed xml files through the normal processing This could be relevant if you want to handle each new xml file in a different manner i e some should emailed and others should be printed For first time testing you could set this to No If you set this to Yes and you set the output folder of the transform to the XML inbox directory then the transformed If you run the example xml file as shown on page 115 through the transform definition above then the output will be these 3 files in INTERFORMNG HOMEYtransform box lt xml versionz 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt invoice gt lt invoicenum ber gt 101 lt invoicenum ber gt lt orderline gt alpha lt orderline gt lt orderline gt bravo lt orderline gt lt invoice gt lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt invoic
46. plugin archiver folderName 101 W e could have added new rules to handle the other 2 xml files so that they could be sent as email and or print but that should be trivial Splitting the intro demo xml file For the Intro demo xml file which is included in InterFormNG inside INTERFORMNG_HOME resources documents Intro you can also split up this for each Document node This is done with this path InterForm A S 121 Conditions Transform Actions Split XPath Expression Root Document Transformation stylesheet split intro xslt M Folder Using this xslt creates one xml file for each document including the information from the parent node lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt xsl stylesheet xmlns xsl http www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform version 1 0 gt xsl param name detail lt xsl template match gt lt Root gt lt xsl copy of select detail parent CompanyInfo gt lt xsl copy of select Sdetail parent Greeting gt xsl copy of select detail parent Barcode gt lt xsl copy of select Sdetail gt lt Root gt lt xsl template gt lt xsl stylesheet gt 122 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Appendix A Using XPath with InterFormNG in short In InterFormNG you use the language XPath hen referencing to data from the XML file There are many sources of information if you want to Know more about XPath but you can also simply read the few examples below to hav
47. result for PDF and ZPL cannot be guaranteed For this to work you need to design a portrait design where the width is smaller than the length of the media You need to respect the non printable margin in PCL which is around 6 mm This multiup feature makes it possible to reuse the exact same template for 2 different sizes of output If you set this option to true the output will place 2 pages on one page in the final output and the output size will be the double of what you have defined in the template The template must be designed in portrait and the height of the page must be equal to or larger than the width You can set the meta data key in either the template or in the workflow The option will move to a new output page if there is a change of paper size between an odd page to the following even page Examples If you set do not change this or set it to false your output will be like defined if you e g are creating 4 pages of A4 pages in your template A4 A4 A4 A4 Pagel Page2 Page3 a Page4 If you now set multiup to true then the output will change gt B VAY L A yased ased VA pe CU 0a D WEN gu CU aje D N A3 Page 1 A3 Page 2 You now get only 2 pages of output where the original pages are rotated and inserted in the output page which is now twice as large as the original Here A3 instead of the original A4 If we consider a setup where the page size change the
48. same template will be prompted for a description and version number 22 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 InterFormNG Designer Revision control User kse number bet Designer version 2011 5 3 5SMAPSHOT Revision 1 0 1 added by kse on 07 08 2012 12 11 57 using version 2011 5 3 SNAPSHOT Added a Hello World text in the top Revision 1 0 0 added by kse on 07 08 2012 12 11 14 using version 2011 5 3 SNAPSHOT This is my first revision of this template le Edit Setup View Help Bj H E Import E S il Elements 6 Top 1 Text style ag Page V AX lt gt InterForm A S 23 Problem solving If you are unable to start the designer or the services stop with an error then you could consult the list below Unable to start the designer corrupted license If you get this error you could try to right click the link for the designer and chose Run as administrator Alternatively you can chose to open up the authority of the InterFormNG directories or chose to use another directory for the resources On page 27 it is described how to change the authority to directories and files on windows Unable to start the services If you are unable to start one or both of the services or if they are complaining of a corrupt license then you can consider to open up authority to the used directories as described above or chose to run the services under a specific user profile as shown on page 99
49. select a different printer for those situations The output configurations are working independently of the template selections above so you can here insert general overriding rules for the printed output You select the output configuration for the workflow from the web interface via Workflow Configurations and Output Configurations InterForm New Generation Home System Configurations 7 Input Configurations a5 Processing Output Configurations 7 a f Actions sm Template Selections a Output Configurations AddRule RemoveRule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Meta Values Piers Name Add Condition Remove Condition d MyFile til HP4700 Condition Type Specification Operator Value FILENAME EQUALS Myfile xml You add new Output configution rules via the Add Rule on the left The rules works as for the Template Selections A rule is a selection of XML files When a new XML file arrives in the XML_inbox directory as defined in the configuration then the Workflow if activated will compare the attributes and contents of the XML file with each of the rules listed until a condition for a rule is validated as true Only the first true rule is executed so the sequence of the rules is quite important You can rearrange the rules simply by dragging a rule up or down in the list The selection of the output configurations works independently of the template configurations We are select
50. support nnana aana aaa 107 POP SECUN DC 156 PDF Security Module 21 Printing On Zebra printers 137 DEl e sad aa edb a a a 127 Reduce the output Size 2 2 ee loose 69 REVISION lOQ 2244522 cnen eee seas se P PEE ETE 22 Setting up the system 05 39 Splitting XML files aana 115 Styles Barcode S yl sasceacageeeeavegace ee 64 oiu cre cy eaa eet aee see dees 67 EITOPSUVIB 1 5 asia totacaos dee esas eas TO Geometry style 000 00 eaee 64 Label style on dese Euro ada i pes eda bake 68 Locale Style cc cc osse s 68 Offset style 42 2 hn Edel e Eme Rea 87 Page siyle source aru eh D do ce dal edd 67 TATIUS EVI s da op ded de ke eRe Ree CRS 69 Text style me dads 58 Support information 2 m rmn hens 2 Template CONVGISION oec ius deve ea un e ose ead 165 TO sexos cos ee i a a ate LIB Go 154 Time stamp m 72 Total number of pages 0 72 Transform XML files 2 2 nn 115 Translation tables 000 54 life ee cious eae A Pans a Seen Bees 109 Mi MPO MPO PPP 30 Xpath e e le e o rmm 123 Aene anea na E E et i E a E nena 120 Zebra support nnana anaana 137 InterForm A S 171
51. template and the polling interval is done on the screen below which you find by clicking System Configurations and General Systems Settings General Settings Keep Service Log days 30 lt gt lt gt Keep Designer Log days 30 Default Template Training Main Entry itpl Enable Polling Yes Ml Polling Interval 5 Enable Trigger No 28 Trigger Port 9999 S Language English Md Jetty Port 8080 Keep Web Log days 30 Enable Workflow Yes zm 4 Auto refresh Workflow Yes Keep Log days InterFormNG creates log files for designer the web server and the processing service inside INTERFORMNG HOMEYprofiles default logs Here you set for how long they should be kept Default Template This is where you setup the template to use for all merges in the server Normally this template should then include another other template depending on the contents of the XML file This is not used if you are using the workflow which is normally recommended Enable Polling Select if you want the server to monitor an input directory via polling Polling Interval The number of seconds between each time that the server will check for any new XML file in the monitored input directory Enable Trigger If you want InterFormNG to run more efficient and react faster then you should not use polling but use a trigger instead You enable the use of a trigger via this option Trigger Port If you enable the trigger as descr
52. the second command we check if a PDF file has been generated if not you should check the service log file The third command should created a printed output in the systems default output queue cp user resources document Intro Intro demo xml user xml inbox ls user pdf outbox Cp user resources document Intro lstro demo prrint xml user xml inbox 7 The sh scripts should be updated to set the right path for InterFormNG and the right path for Java e g like below We use the vi editor to change the contents vi designer aix sh Now change the begining of the file to this interformng should be replaced with the path to where you have placed InterFormNG The third line could also refer to the Java home environment variable cd interformng export INTERFORMNG HOME user usr java6 jre bin java 146 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 vi service aix sh interformng should be replaced with the path to where you have placed InterFormNG The third line could also refer to the Java_home environment variable Gob inter ornn export INTERFORMNG HOME user usr java6 jre bin java vi service web aix sh interformng should be replaced with the path to where you have placed InterFormNG The third line could also refer to the Java home environment variable Gd ames ror ning export INTERFORMNG HOME user usr java6 jre bin java Here is an example of the changed contents Bi zh are TNTERFORING HOME gt user
53. with nothing commas are removed A A M translate G in You can also convert from lower case to upper case in this way translate 80in abcde ABCDE If substring before and substring after is not able to find the text then an empty string is returned Numeric operations You can also do normal calculations as adding subtracting multiplicating dividing in XPath This can e g also be stated as an XPath expression substring Data Header Type 4 3 5 div 6 you need blanks around div With the value VDA4902 as mentioned above for Data Header Type this will be calculated as 490 multiplied with 5 equal 2450 divided by 6 making the result 408 3333333333333 S0 as you can see divide is stated as div and modulo is mod A numeric result is converted to a string when returning the value so you can e g combine substring functions to the result so we can even limit the number above to 2 decimals in this manner concat substring before substring Data Header Type 4 3 5 div 6 Substring substring after substring Data Header Type 4 3 5 div 6 1 2 Numbers must be written with a dot as decimal point without any thousand separator To convert a decimal comma into a dot and to remove any dots used as 1000 delimiter you can use the translate function like this translate string Assuming you are using a dotas a decimal point and a comma as thousand se
54. you Please specify your name and the company for whom you work then dick Next You need to register with some information about your PC in order to get a file with a license code When you press Enter a contact is made to a licence server which will provide you with a free 7 day trial license If this does not work you can later order a test code via the web interface as shown on page 18 14 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Now state the place where InterFormNG should be installed The path below is suggested E Setup InterFormNG Select Destination Location Where should InterFormNG be installed Seton ull a a bovis ec a feles To continue dick Next If you would like to select a different folder dick Browse At least 438 0 MB of free disk space is required The next screen asks for the path for where data files and configuration files should be placed E Setup InterFormNG Select home directory by Where should data files and configurations be installed S Select the folder in which Setup should install data files and configurations then click Next ProgramData InterFormNG The default path is C Program Data InterFormNG Please check correct the exact path in your installation Please make Sure if this path is OK and change it if needed You will need to use this path whenever InterFormNG is exchanging files e g XML files so a more simple path may be a good idea
55. 0 WeDINGIACG 2635525546654 2 08 sb45485 4 bb 5 546 84555404 So Hb a5 a8 Be 10 Conversion of Designs Templates 0 0000 eee 11 New Module JD Edwards EnterpriseOne connector 11 License code IS NOW TOQUIlE e occu Jie be od Seb P br hE eS s dog eee box 11 CIC us RET pete ten ee pee ee a ee Eee ee ene eee ees 12 Pree OMisNeS 2es4 eect cues tapes eres eet eee sess ESSO EPIS 92 E T2 incicu e P 12 Important upgrade Information naaa aa 12 Installing Java Runtime Environment 12 Installing Java Runtime Environment on Windows 12 Installing InterFormNG 0 00000 eee eee 13 The license COOC P 18 The Trail Licence 2434422 28445454 ERR eremi 2844546446 18 Opalia liCeNse 22655 2464305454 9 99933 0990093234 9395 18 Alternative way to retrieve technical information 19 Install a licence PD 19 Installed plugins a xx dui x ERE xERRrERE 4 EAS da EA Rd ERE 4 EN bank ER EE 20 Modules for InterFormNG lllllllee ee 21 The PDF Security Module 2 200020 eee 21 The TxtToXML Module 000000 ee 21 The JD Edwards Connector Module 21 Configuring InterFormNG 0 0 0 ees 21 Set the language 0 0 eee 21 Set the measure unit llle ee 21 Background image 0 0 cee ee 22 PROVISION IOS v1 ose ce one UE RUPES Copa IUBE HUE Bee
56. 00 xml plugin db model gt lt class name Job table JOB gt id name id column ID gt lt generator class native gt lt id gt lt property name processingStatus column PROCESSED gt lt property name createdDate column CREATED gt lt property name xmlData column XML not null true type com interform400 xml plugin db hibernate ClobUserType update false gt map table METADATA name metaData lazy false gt lt key column JOB ID gt index column MD KEY type String gt lt element column MD VALUE type string gt lt map gt 152 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 lt class gt query name Job findUnprocessedJobs CDATA from Job job where job processingStatus 0 order by createdDate id gt lt query gt lt hibernate mapping gt Note that you ll have to do the mapping for METADATA inside the mapping for JOB As we don t want InterFormNG Hibernate to mess around with the tables we created we set hibernate hbm2ddl auto in hibernate properties so that the hibernate properties file looks like this hibernate dialect org hibernate dialect SQLServerDialect hibernate show sql false hibernate hbm2ddl auto Start InterFormNG Document Processing Service Create a new record in the database begin transaction INSERT INTO JOB XML PROCESSED VALUES lt xml gt lt greeting gt Hello lt greeting gt lt xml gt 0 INSERT INTO METADATA JOB ID
57. 14R09 Importing a Resource If you are going to create PDF files with embedded files you might want to refer local files instead of dynamically retrieving the files for each preview e g to save time or perhaps these files are not even available in the environment you are currently using Such local files must first be imported and this is what you can do by selecting Import Resources click Top and then the icon on the left a Training Training_IF400_invoice_Contact_Information itpl kse 11 File Edit Setup View Help ts x y m Gal 5 50 v amp 6 Settings Import 3 XML documents Templates 3 q2 Resources Image p Ww R esource gg Properties Size Description ws File InterForm Logo jpg C Resource name logo Now you can select any file to be embedded that are placed in resources Design These imported files can now be referenced for the Link element Refer to page 82 for details InterForm A S 53 Importing a translation table Translation tables can be used for maintaining texts in various languages With InterFormNG you can then e g let information found in the XML file determine which translation table to use which e g could determine the language of all fixed text elements in the resulting PDF file The translation tables are built up of a list of key values and translated values The test properties file contains this NORWAY Norway DENMARK De
58. 2014R09 lt print gt lt value gt true lt value gt lt print gt lt attributes gt lt attributes gt lt documentT ype gt documentTypes In the example above a document type named YourLabelDocumentType is configured to be sent to the printer with the logical id zebra01 Any document which has a document type of YourLabelDocumentType will automatically be rendered as ZPL and sent to the zebra01 printer Installing the ZPL rendering plugin InterformNG allows your design templates and the associated XML input data to be rendered to different formats It is similar to the PDF rendering plugin in that it implements the RendererPlugin API interface but it produces ZPL rather than PDF The ZPL rendering plugin should be installed by default by the product installer To verify that it is correctly installed examine the profile plugin directory for a folder called zpl renderer On Windows you may find it here C Users Default Application Data Interform InterformNG profiles default plugins Verify that the zpl renderer subfolder exists and that it contains a lib folder with several jar files inside ZPL rendering plugin configuration Like other plugins the ZPL rendering plugin reads configuration information from a file called plugin properties stored in the conf folder C Users Default Application Data Interform InterformN G profiles default plugins zpl renderer conf plugin properties The following configuration option i
59. 8h 38aclcedb5dib Aug 3H 2613 PrivateKeyEntr Certificate fingerprint MDS 51 FG D5 33 H H4 B4 C2 AG 27 F5 85 975 HE FEE The alias is what is preceding the first comma In this example the alias is le 7e788873 11e0 4384 9f8b 38ac1ced5d1b You need to save your alias as this is needed when you want to digitally sign a PDF file Install Java Cryptography Extension JCE Additional software is needed to do the strong encryption which is used You will need to download and install this into the existing java installation The complete name of the software is called Java Cryptography Extension JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files The software to download depends on which version of JRE you are running If you are running JRE 7 then you can currently use this link http www oracle com technetwork java javase downloads index htm Where it is found in the bottom After downloading you should read the README file for instruction of how to install but it is actually just a question of copying two jar files into the llib security directory where java is installed This could be here C Program Files Java jre 7 lib security 160 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Inside the security directory you may find two existing files named the same as the files you want to copy If you want to be sure you can e g rename the existing files then you can always come back if something should go wrong
60. A lt customernumber gt invoice lt invoicenumber gt 102 lt invoicenumber gt lt orderline gt charlie lt orderline gt lt orderline gt delta lt orderline gt lt orderline gt echo lt orderline gt invoice order lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt order gt lt header gt InterFormNG Transform Demo lt header gt lt footer gt Copyright C 2013 footerf lt customernumber gt B lt customernumber gt invoice lt invoicenumber gt 103 lt invoicenumber gt lt orderline gt foxtrot lt orderline gt lt orderline gt golf lt orderline gt lt orderline gt hotel lt orderline gt lt Grderline gt india lt orderline gt lt invoice gt lt order gt These XML files are now being handled by the workflow again as we told it to but only the first XML file fits the condition in the workflow Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Transform Actions Name Add Condition Remove Condition 101only Condition Type Specification Operator Value default XPATH forder invoice finvoicenumber EQUALS 101 We have told it to create a pdf file in the 101 directory inside the default pdf outbox directory Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Transform Actions Name Add Acton Remove Action i101 only Template Output Type H default example 1 itpl archive Add Meta Value Remove Meta Value Key Value interform
61. CESSED CREATED XML METADATA ID PK JOB ID FK MD KEY MD VALUE p On the SQL Server you could create the tables with the following commands SET ANSI NULLS ON SET QUOTED IDENTIFIER ON SET ANSI PADDING ON CREATE TABLE dbo JOB ID int IDENTITY 1 1 NOT NULL PROCESSED int NULL CREATED datetime NULL XML text NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ID ASC WITH PAD INDEX OFF STATISTICS NORECOMPUTE OFF IGNORE DUP KEY Eg ALLOW ROW LOCKS ON ALLOW PAGE LOCKS ON ON PRIMARY ON PRIMARY TEXTIMAGE ON PRIMARY CREATE TABLE dbo METADATA ID int IDENTITY 1 1 NOT NULL JOB_ID int NOT NULL MD_KEY varchar 255 NOT NULL MD_VALUE varchar 255 NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ID ASC WITH EAD INDEX OFF STATISTICS NORECOMPUTE OFF IGNORE DUP KEY OFF ALLOW ROW LOCKS ON ALLOW PAGE LOCKS ON ON PRIMARY ON PRIMARY SET ANSI PADDING OFF ALTER TABLE dbo METADATA WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT FK JOB ID FOREIGN KEY JOB_ID REFERENCES dbo JOB ID ALTER TABLE dbo METADATA CHECK CONSTRAINT FK JOB ID The Hibenate mapping job hbm xml could look like lt xml version 1 0 gt lt DOCTYPE hibernate mapping PUBLIC Hibernate Hibernate Mapping DTD 3 0 EN http hibernate sourceforge net hibernate mapping 3 0 dtd lt hibernate mapping package com interform4
62. F 6 Page style P 4 HA 2 Page a Place windows horizontally H Statics x ee l R an xmi Maximize XML window ig Properties Advanced settings Description Maximize result window This divides the right of the screen in two The upper part is the input XML file and the lower part is the result If you now select the previous text element in the element list and now insert a new text element you can now refer to the contents of the XML file Top 7 6 Textstyle a XML documents IF400 Demo Spooled File invoice archive EM xml 6 Page style S i Page _ Sl Meta information H Statics a 0 6 XML Encoding utf 8 6 XML Version 1 0 i 6 XML Standalone false B El Root 6 type invoice 6 output archive 6 language EN H 9 Document EE B ompany UM Marine Resear 6 Date 20 09 201 4 6 DocumentNo 1004 e 6 Adress1 Seaweed Street 14 6 Adress2 9000 Battleaxe Document Contact person Hello World Cursor name Target Current node Context nodes Martin Merman 44 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Type the position of this text element and change the selection input into Xpath Now you can select contents from the XML file simply by first marking the field in the XML file and clicking the Select from document icon and then the path is copied into the Xpath expression You can also enter this manu
63. First you must include a description of the printer type as shown below printerT ypes gt lt printerT ype gt lt id gt ZebraPrinter lt id gt lt supportedAttributes gt lt supportedAttributes gt lt printerT ype gt lt printerT ypes gt In this example a printer type called ZebraPrinter is defined The list of known attributes may be retrieved using the command line tool as described on page 129 and is usually limited for Zebra printers Please also note that there is currently no support in InterformNG for Zebra specific printer attributes Next add a printer that references the type lt printers gt printer type ZebraPrinter gt lt id gt zebra01 lt id gt lt name gt zm400 lt name gt lt inputFormat gt lt mimeT ype gt x application zpl lt mime Type gt lt inputFormat gt lt printer gt lt printers gt The fragment above tells InterFormNG that a printer of type ZebraPrinter with the logical id zebra01 is available with the system name zm400 It further includes a new lt inputFormat gt configuration which marks this printer as being capable of printing ZPL Next you must configure which document types render as ZPL rather than postscript Once again edit the print configuration XML file as shown below lt documentT ypes gt lt documentT ype name YourLabelDocumentT ype gt lt printer gt lt value gt zebra01 lt value gt lt printer gt 138 Manual for InterFormNG Version
64. G As default the reference point of an image is the lower left corner A nterForm With the Image style you can change the reference point Properties Alignment Vertical Unset A Top Center Bottom Horizontal Unset Left Center Right This has effect on the next image elements inserted Refer to page 77 for details of the image element Version 2014R09 Color style m amp Page Style Ls Set the color of the following elements and the color to be used when filling out boxes Properties ID Colors Pen Black v Fil TEM v Instead of selecting one of values from the drop down list you can also enter the 2 digit hexadecimal values for the Red Green and Blue combination of the color you want Here are a few examples Red FF0000 Green OOFFOO Blue 0000FF The color on the right 7198BF Hue 140 Red 113 Sat 91 Green 152 ColoriSelid Lym 143 Blue 191 The page style sets the page size e g A4 Letter etc and orientation portrait or landscape You can also select Custom size to select a specific output size you are then asked for the height and width of the output As with most styles both can also be set to Unset indicating that this property should not be changed and the previous set value is to be used Properties Flow settings Description O Flow settings Size Page flow margins 5 Unset Q Standa
65. Inter FormNG Manual InterFormNG eForms amp Intelligent Document Management www interform400 com InterForm A S Hyldalvej 11 DK 9541 Suldrup Denmark tel 45 98 37 80 17 fax 45 98 37 87 99 e mail support interform400 com sales interform400 com web www interform400 com 2 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Document NGE 2014 User Manual for InterFormNG version 2014 R37 Printed in Denmark 2015 No part of this guide may be photocopied or reproduced in any way except where noted without the written consent of Interform A S All the names in this manual are fictional and any resemblance to existing people or firms is purely coincidental Copyright Interform A S 2015 All rights reserved AS 400 iSeries i5 and System i are registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation HP PCL is a trademark of Hewlett Packard All other trademarks mentioned in this document are registered trademarks of their respective owners InterForm A S 3 Table of Contents Table OF CONCCWNS vo2 5 2 058 EE Soh ee ee es ok ee ee lk Se E a i 4 What is new in the 2014 Versions eee Bn kie 9 DOSE rcc d ESnal ollis es2v95 9 97299999929 9959 2992 2 E 9 POF OUIDUL 6 ines ooo ee Em ee EEE eee eee Behe bee eee 10 PDF Security Module 0 22 ee 10 PCL OUIDUL iv408 Seed 5455542 2045S She be ehh ee bowed baw ete ded E ee 10 WV OMMIOW is uoo S pe oes Beg ee eee oe SU Bags vd NUN UM eae eee 1
66. MD KEY MD VALUE VALUES SELECT MAX ID FROM JOB someKey someValue commit Examples of relevant meta data keys could e g be the actual printer onto which the output should be printed or e g the pdf file name and or path when creating PDF output or even the email receiver when sending out emails InterForm A S 153 Appendix F The TxtToXML Module InterFormNG offers various ways of merging transforming XML input but with the TxtToXML module you can even also use text files directly as input Currently text files can only be used as input via a monitored folder like described below You can configure the module via the web interface Here you select Input Configurations and Txt to XML Configuration r Home System Configurations i Processing Active Yes Processing Priority Normal Source Folder S INTERFORMNG_HOME txt_inbox File extensions txt File encoding utf 8 Separation Regex F Trim Whitespace Yes Line number attribute Yes Token index attribute Yes Copy enabled Yes Copy Target Folder S INTERFORMNG_HOME txt_inbox xml copy Each parameter is explained below Active Select Yes to activate this module Processing Priority The relative priority of this plugin Select between immediate normal and batch Source folder The folder directory to monitor for new text files File extensions The file extensions handled by this module Please notice that this is case sensitive
67. Microsoft Serialized Certificate Store SST Learn more about certificate file formats To maintain security you must protect the private key by using a password Type and confirm a password Password Type and confirm password mandatory InterForm A S 159 Finally we specify the path and file name Certificate Export Wizard File to Export Specify the name of the file you want to export File name C temp myfile pfix lt Back j next gt Came You can place the certificate file anywhere and later refer to the complete path or you can place it is INTERFORMNG HOME Vresources certificates and then you only need to refer to the file name and subdirectories if used Retrieve the alias from the certificate file You can find the alias from a certificate file by opening a DOS session and running this command keytool list keystore C temp myfile pfx storetype pkcs12 storepass password Inside the after keystore you write the file including the path that contains the certificate Above the file is C temp myfile pfx and the final word is the password used for locking down the certificate file above it is password The command returns this G Msers kse2keutoonl list keystore G temp Kim pu mypu pfx storetype pkcsi2 storepass mypu Keystore type PKCS1i2 Keystore provider SunJ amp SsSE Your keystore contains 1 entry le 7e7888 73 11eH 4384 f
68. QUALS Conditions Transform Actions Split XPath Expression orders customer invoice Transformation stylesheet Folder C temp Value 101 If you make sure that the output folder for the transform is blank then you can be sure that your setup cannot loop where rule where the transformed files will be transformed again and so on This is a hidden safety feature in InterFormNG If the folder is blank then the transformed files cannot trigger a rule using a transform definition However if you specify an output folder then you can e g create the xml files in a folder handled by another application or place them in the inbox directory and let the workflow decide what to do With set setup you can transform already transformed files but now it is your responsibility to avoid a logical loop in the setup with an infinite loop which will just keep on creating new xml files as the safety feature above is disabled when you specify a folder InterForm A S 119 Introducing XSLT You can define the transformation split via an XSLT The stylesheet is called once for each detail branch the exact path of the branch was defined earlier and a detail branch Split Xpath expression In short the detail branch is the trigger for the split each branch will trigger a new XML file The branch is transferred as a parameter with the name detail so you need to define this parameter in the stylesheet xsl param name detail gt
69. a ee 128 Structure of printConfig xml lille 128 SCHOUNG cee 30ee ene SX EE sence gnc SO EUN ERS use ee dee RUE 136 Access to meta data Lake Xs em Rr PERS basieeed 137 Printing labels on Zebra printers 0 00000 137 Requirements accs rarose Eres POE ea niria hee 137 Connecting and installing the Zebra printer 138 Updating the Print Configuration 138 Installing the ZPL rendering plugin less 139 ZPL rendering plugin configuration liess 139 Appendix C Socket based XML processing eee 140 Inpitformat c c RR SRS Ed oe OS x EE E ER 140 eager Keys ipu oirre S ENdURQE IU PESE he S525 mE URP US 140 ROESUINTOMNGL essees tpar EE eenn REEERE 140 Initiating a connection A Java example 141 Plugin configuration 2 2 0 0 ee 141 A Groovy web server example 0000 e ees 142 Appendix D Installing on other platforms llle 145 stell OU n iali h s dea eeSs ober eens eee dese S eee eens ESSO eee S PEU 145 MSING ON AIA ss one Sean beet teed bone bbe eee kos See Boas eek 146 Appendix E Processing a Database lll 148 THe DalaDaS CC rrv re 148 JDBC DIVEN P 148 Configure InterFormNG s Database plugin 0 00000 eee 149 JES a e geeueeetehee eee eres sees eee ee See ee eer ee ee eee eea ees 149 Ex
70. a when you want to create columns for all the detail lines Refer to the flow area below for the settings available 80 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Flow Area ttt You can make InterFormNG position each element relative to each other with this feature This makes it possible e g to place elements especially text relatively both horizontally and vertically as well as insert either line or page breaks when necessary Use NewLine element with this style to position elements relatively below each other Properties Columns styles Descripion Properties Columns Top 0 38 Left 0 99 Use offset variable Columns Width 10 00 Scope control Keep styles Number of Columns Space between columns Properties Columns Styles Break settings Protect area from automatic page column break Paint borders Padding Left Right Protect area from automatic line break Line settings Line height Top Bottom 0 100 Spacing Vertical Horizontal Vertical lines 7 Horizontal lines F Top Left Start position of the flow area The flow are will position the element relative to this position and move from left to right relative to the last text element inserted with the flow area Use Offset variable If you enable this then the flow area is positioned via the value of an Offset variable instead of a fixed point as specified above T
71. able Function which is described above you set the data type of this element This can be set to Text Boolean Number or Date The data type will have an effect on how the data is 72 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 printed out but you can also use numeric Xpath functions if you set the data type to numeric It is very important that the text really is the correct type when defining it as boolean number or date The requirements are these Boolean Values 0 and 1 or a boolean xpath expression are allowed Invalid values are currently not shown and no error message is issued Number Numeric values using a dot as a decimal point without any thousand separator are allowed Invalid data are currently not shown and no error message is issued Date Only dates in the format YYYY MM DD is supported Invalid dates strings may result in a strange date to be shown In the text style under format you can then even tell InterFormNG how to present this specific data type Refer to page 58 for details Advanced settings Properties Advanced settings Url settings Description Bourse Layout settings Rotation Mone Width settings Frame width Fixed Maximum Selection input Constant Number Selection input constant 200 Selection result Decode Index settings Index Label DocumentMo The options are placed under the advanced setting
72. able of the currently supported response codes 140 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Response key Description x interform response A response code similar to a HTTP response code is always returned Positive response codes are in the 2xx range whereas error response codes are in the 5xx range If an error code in the 5xx range is returned a stack trace is typically returned in the response body x interform response A textual message describing the operation result If a job ended in error message the message will indicate the cause of the error x interform result url If a PDF was produced as a result of the processing this header will return an URL pointing to the actual file Note that depending on the value of the mediaType meta value a PDF may not necessarily be available as a result of processing the XML In this case no result url header will be returned Initiating a connection A Java example The following is a small snippet of Java code that shows how to connect to the service and provide some XML data for processing Note that for the sake of simplicity a lot of the typical error handling and other scaffolding has been left out Establish connection System out println Sending request Socket socket new 5ocket 127 0 0 1 9091 Send XML request PrintWriter pw new PrintWriter socket getOutputStream pw println x interform metadata documentType invoice pw println x interfo
73. added and there is no more room on the page Alternatively you can here set a number of columns to add for each page Space between Columns If you set a number larger than 1 for the Number of Columns above then you can here set the distance that you want between each column Under the Styles tab these last options are found Paint borders Enable this and you will get lines around the borders of the flow area This can e g be used for creating tables or if you temporarily want to see the actual borders Padding A distance between the leftmost rightmost top lowest element within the flow area and actual borders of the flow area If you enable the border to be painted above then this padding is clearly shown Spacing If you want additional spacing between each element in the flow area then you can state it here both in the vertical and horizonal direction Enabling horizontal or vertical lines will insert a line between each element These lines can be used for building up a table within the flow area Refer to page 95 for a couple of examples of how to use the flow area New line Element lt The element NewLine works with the flow area Refer to page 81 for examples and sets the position of the following elements to be just below the elements that have just been placed It will adapt the line distance to the size of the elements unless you have specified a specific line height in the flow area If you e g change the
74. ally or alter this to include various Xpath functions Now you can verify the final result in PDF by clicking this icon on the upper right T If you get an error regarding a missing print setup you can set the output to be PDF by adding a meta data element Click on this element on the left v I pet Now state the meta data key mediaType case sensitive and archive case sensitive as the value as below mediaType archive Now you should be able to preview If not you should verify that the server has been setup correctly and the necessary plugins has been activated Now you can continue to build in additional functions your first template If you e g insert a Flow area and inside of this insert a ForEach then you can loop through all nodes with a simular path and print each node with the Text element remember to insert a NewLine element to force a line break 6 Settings H Import Elements bs Top 6 Text style 6 Page style Ei 2l Page Hello World H Statics 6 Top z Martin Merman ForEach 6 Text 6 Newline Jnterword400 PDF security Swiftview 50 InterExcel400 InterForm400 z InterForm400 cul lt InterForm400 Break settings InterForm400 Protect area from automatic page column break InterForm400 Protect area from automatic line break InterForm400 InterWord400 Line settings d InterFax InterForm A S 45 Import external resources When creating your design yo
75. alue below EQUALS The expression selected in type and specification must be exactly what is specified in the Value field Value Here you can specify either a fixed string if you are using EQUALS as the Operator or a compare expression if you are using LIKE For the LIKE option you can use these features Signifies any string which is has a length of 0 or more The backslash character abc a b or c simple class Aabc Any character except a b or c negation a zA Z a through z or A through Z inclusive range a d m p a through d or m through p a dm p union a z amp amp def d e or f intersection a z amp amp bc a through z except for b and c ad z Subtraction a z amp amp m p a through z and not m through p a Iq z subtraction l Any character may or may not match line terminators d A digit 0 9 D A non digit 0 9 s A whitespace character t n xOB f r S A non whitespace character s w A word character a zA Z_ 0 9 W A non word character w Other valid expressions can be found via this link http docs oracle com javase 1 5 0 docs api java util regex Pattern html sum The expression in the screen above is a dummy condition which is always true so if you only want one rule then you could start out with this If you later want to select special XML files you should insert new rules prior the one using the dummy condition as only one rul
76. alued that specifies the number of copies to be printed On many printers the supported number of collated copies will be limited by the number of physical output bins on the device and may be different from the number of uncollated copies which can be supported Sides duplex An alias for two sided long edge one sided Imposes each consecutive print stream page upon the same side of consecutive media sheets tumble An alias for two sided short edge two sided long edge Imposes each consecutive pair of print stream pages upon front and back sides of consecutive media sheets such that the orientation of each pair of print stream pages on the medium would be correct for the reader as if for binding on the long edge two sided short edge Imposes each consecutive pair of print stream pages upon front and back sides of consecutive media sheets such that the orientation of each pair of print stream pages on the medium would be correct for the reader as if for binding on the short edge 132 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Finishings Supported values include none Perform no binding staple Bind the document s with one or more staples cover This value is specified when it is desired to select a non printed or pre printed cover for the document bind This value indicates that a binding is to be applied to the document the type and placement of the binding is site defined saddle stitch Bind the document s
77. ample Transferring meta data values from a Database intoNG 152 Appendix F The TxtToXML Module 0 0 0 0000 154 Appendix G The PDF Security Module 00000 es 156 Encryption and password protection 0 ae ee ee 156 Adding a digital Signature 0 eee 156 miri c KT 156 Getting a digital certificate file llis 157 Retrieve the alias from the certificate file 160 Install Java Cryptography Extension JCE 160 Signing a PDF file llle 161 Trusting signatures aaa aa 162 Verifying Digital Signatures 0 0 00 eee eee 164 Appendix H Conversion of pre 2014 Templates 165 Testing templates when upgrading to a 2014 Version or newer 165 CONVCISIONMM10Ols 2 454645456264 ease puso S dre urbc eg P did neu s 165 Problem when opening templates in pre 2014 Versions 167 InterForm A S 7 168 Enabling message queue in InterFormNG 2 0 0 cee ee eee External message queue ee es 168 Sending data to message queue 1 ee 169 171 8 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 What is new in the 2014 Versions This manual describes the functionality of the InterFormNG 2014 versions Below are the additions changes since the last official InterFormNG 2013 version Designer e Details settings of text ele
78. an however be stated before the first page element The Page Element has these attributes Labels Use labels Label grid Repeat horizontally 2 Repeat vertically 3 Fill direction Horizontal Vertical InterForm A S 77 Keep styles If you activate this then any styles defined in this page tree will stick and also be used after this page Otherwise the styles defined in the tree will not have any effect outside the page Labels If you activate Use labels you are telling InterFormNG that there could be labels on this page You will then be asked for how many labels there should be in both the horizontal and vertical direction Also the sequence in which the labels are filled out is also defined here If there is more labels defined than can be fitted into a single page an automatic page break is issued When you insert the page element a subgroup called Static will also be inserted as below Top Statics Ge Pre 6 Text style E i Group Header Ed Post El Group Total The Statics group has 2 other subgroups Pre and Post The Pre subgroup will be executed before the other elements of the page will be inserted so this will normally be used for the header elements as indicated above If you use flow you can place the detail lines directly after the header elements The Post subgroup is executed as the last thing before a page break This can e g be used for printing a t
79. and activate disable installed printers Only activated printers can be used in InterFormNG The main settings are these Printers Documents General Settings Show Selected Filter T Name Valid Type Description aa ZDesigner T402 Yes Sides Copies Media Size i e 9e s v ZDesigner S4M 300dpi ZPL Yes x application zpl S P T p Send To OneNote 2010 Yes j Tw t4 Schenker Yes Media Tray Chromaticity Orientation Finishings 54M ZPL 300dpi to file Yes n N RICOH Aficio AP400N PCL 5e Yes Ol gt Microsoft XPS Document Writer Yes Fonts Output Format KONICA MINOLTA 220 PCL Yes HP LaserJet TEST 4250 PCL 5 i Suldrup Yes HP Laserjet Pro 400 HP Universal Print Yes Mime Type pd td HP LaserJet 5N Yes HP LaserJet 4 Yes Resolution 600 b HP LaserJet 2200 Series PCL 5 Yes Description J HP 4700 Universal Printing PCL 5 v5 Yes application vnd hp PCL AS400 Properties des Output Queue CutePDF Writer Yes i Output Queue Lib v default No Cancel Save The default printer refers to the default printer on the machine If you deselect deactivate this printer then it will disappear Name The name of the printer As default this will be the same as the windows printer Mime Type The print data type that will be sent to the printer Choose between pcl postscript and zpl For normal laser printers pcl is recommended Resolution The printers resolution in dots per inch This is normally 600 for laser printers and eithe
80. anguage If you want to change the language of InterFormNG you select this via Setup and Language as below 5 NEW OVERLAY InterForm400 XML Desig Fie Edit Ez Display Help LJ Measure Background image French z German H E Docur JI IE ec Temp Spanish n m 3 Image Danish x Iw E 3 Trans Portuguese A change of language will be active after restarting the designer Currently only english is available Set the measure unit The measure unit when inserting layout elements can be set to either of these xpath demo itpl InterForm400 XML De File Edit Eze Display Help wees Measure p Inches Pels a b Inches Language Ld AT Background image 0M Inches and pels All measurements are typed in as inches as pels Inches are entered before the comma or decimal point and pels are entered after 240 pels equals 1 inch so e g the value 1 120 equals one and a half inch InterForm A S 21 Inches All measurements are entered in inches with a normal comma or decimal point This means e g that the value 1 500 here equals one and a half inch CM All measurements are in centimeters with a comma or decimal point This means e g that the value 3 81 equals one and a half inch Background image It is possible to scan an image of a preprinted form and use this as a background to create a template with the same contents To do this you select the image bmp jpg pgn via Setup an
81. arning Issue a warning in the log but continue processing the file Fatal Stop processing and issue a fatal error 70 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 The Design Elements For all elements and styles you can state a short description is 43 l3 y internal q Fired Area Mapping 6 Top 6 Text style null 18 0 B e Iu y remark Cnlar ctila m Properties Advanced settings Url settings Description Short description This is my remark Description This is a long description for internal use You can e g search for this text By clicking the Description tab This will be shown in the list of the elements like shown above If you do not add a short description the properties of some elements texts and text styles will be shown in the list instead You can also add a longer description which will not be shown unless you click the Description tab You can search for this and other settings and contents via the search field in the top of the screen The design elements of InterFormNG which can be found on the left in the designer are listed below from the top and down Most of them are inserted by first clicking the element type on the left and then the position in the result window Text Element T The Text element simply inserts a text in the output The font used will be the one specified in the last text style element The origin of the text is set in the propertie
82. at the current signature still is valid You can verify the signature in at least two manners 1 Verify during open You can e g setup Acrobat Reader to verify digital signatures when opening a PDF file by selecting Edit Preferences and Security Here you will see an option Verify signatures when the document is opened If you activate this option Acrobat will check the signatures when opening the PDF file The downside is that opening takes a bit longer 2 Verify the signature manually Find the signature of the PDF document and right click on the Signed by XXXX Then select Validate Signature 164 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Appendix H Conversion of pre 2014 Templates When upgrading from a pre 2014 version to a 2014 version or newer the templates will be converted into a new format This has only importance if you are using barcode styles If you are not using barcode styles you will not see any difference in the output and you can also open a template in any version of the designer no matter what version that created the template If you are using barcode styles you cannot directly open a converted template ina pre 2014 version as the barcode styles are stored in a different manner The changes to the barcode style are in short The barcode style MUST have a specific barcode type where you could previously use the Unset value as well to set a general value for whatever barcode type you u
83. ate 20 09 2011 2 6 DocumentNo 1004 Mappin Adress1 Seaweed Street 14 Me eL data with a design template requires you to position XML tags in desired locations O Adress2 9000 Battleaxe 2 in the design template Weuse Xpath to link tags and positions e Country DK Denmark a This text has been mapped fromthe XML file to the left Reference PMK 6 Intro This text has been mapped from the XML file to the left 2 a During thedesign processwe are working with styles A style is a global setting that will work EY A pens through the whole of your design We have styles for Text Image Barcode Colour and so on i eader 6 Regarding Re Your new InterForm400 modules 6 Line Congratulations with your new InterForm400 modu Note Have you installed a PDF reader Tip Click the preview icon if you get a PDF everything is ok Import of resources Working with styles Alliconson the left sideofthedesigner are marked with S indicating a style element a 6 Line You are now able to fully exploit the benifits of com Page style 6 Line InterForm400 with one or more of the powerful mo g Before starting a design you must define the canvas size and orientation Line your customers and ease the workflow in your org o FW OF CNSIONMBO YOW OWN 6 Line z i e line 2 T E NEYT DACE ANN CET A NECICN TIDE gt gt gt gt gt 4 D ni j V Show errors 0 V Show warnings 0 Show debug 312 This is a
84. be created when needed Processing The XML files that are currently being processed Processed The XML files that has successfully been processed Errors XML files that could not be processed an error occurred during processing Look to the service log file to find out what went wrong It is possible to monitor multiple directories If you want to do that you simply separate each path with a comma like this INTERFORMNG HOMEYxml inbox Z xml inbox 192 168 250 250 apf3812home xml inbox Please notice that we are here monitoring a directory on a different server which is also possible Split active If you want to split up an XML file then you should activate it via this option 30 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Stylesheet The path to the XSLT which is used for the split An XSLT file makes it possible to define a transformation from one XML file into one or more output XML files Refer to page 115 for an in dept description and examples of how this can be defined Xpath This also refers to the split You should define a path here If InterFormNG finds that there are multiple branches with this path e g multiple detail nodes in the root in the example above then InterFormNG will consider this to be an unsplitted XML file and use the XSLT to create new XML files Please make sure to double check and test your split setup as you potentially can setup a loop which will constantly create new XML files Process
85. body of arbitrary length Header values are expected to be sent using a simple format resembling that of typical property files keyl value 1 cr lf key2 value 2 cr lf er 1f The list of key value headers is terminated by an empty line After this you may send the actual XML to be processed Header keys Header keys are expected to follow a naming convention in order to be recognized as InterFormNG meta values For example x interform metadata documentType invoice Notice the naming convention where a special prefix name is used to indicate that the value should be attached as meta data to the new job Any key that begins with X interform metadata is automatically set as meta data on the resulting job The key will be everything following the prefix and the value will be everything following the colon In the example above the meta data key will be documentType and the value invoice Result format The result of a processing request is a sequence of key value headers containing status information In some cases a body containing additional information may follow the headers For example x interform response 200 cr 1f x interform response message Operation completed normally cr 1f x interform result url filesytmp InterPormnNG servioe A127 0 0 1 011095436959059647700 pdf er Lt ers d body optional only used for extended error information at the moment Each key begins with x interform Below is a t
86. build PDF Element unreachable Text unreachable Error code com interform400 xmlLengine ErrorCode cS5d dab Then you have inserted a design element outside a page element e g like below 6 Settings a Import El Elements amp Top 6 Page style 6 Text style Source Sans Pro 11 0 E Page ET ext C This is outside the page Show errors 1 Show warnings 0 C 01007 Element unreachable Text unreachable Properties Layout settings Top 4 234 Left 1 051 Use offset variable This is outside the page The error message indicates that at least one design element is placed outside a page element like above The text element should have been placed within the scope of a page element You can verify if it is outside by minimizing the Page folder Clicking on the next to Page If the text element is not shown then it really is inside the Page element Normally you will get this error because you have misplaced the design element but in some situations you might want to do this if you e g want to build up one or more groups to be reused in the design Such a template could contain a range of groups offering predefined designs that you could use in all templates in the company InterForm A S 97 If you want such a setup you can actually tell InterFormNG to ignore this error if it should occour by inserting an error style with this setting Pro
87. cal Co U Service name InterFormNGProcessor Display name InterFormMG Document Processing Service Description Path to executable C Program Files InterFormNG MGservice exe Startup type Help me configure service startup options Service status Stopped Start Stop Pause Resume You can specify the start parameters that apply when you start the service from here Start parameters e You can now find this in the service log file EHLO Egon Pc interform400 com 38 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Starting the Designer If you have chosen the default path in the Start Menu you can start it by selecting InterFormNG Designer as below n InterFormNG Ell CmdTool Designer InterFormNG on the Web InterFormNG web admin Ell Uninstall InterFormNG n service Notice The templates are stored as itpl files You should not edit these files in any other way than the InterFormNG designer Editing the files with another application may make the templates unusable Before starting the designer the first time Before using the designer for the first time you will probably want to copy one or more fonts to the resource directory You can e g do that by copying True Type Fonts TTF from C AW indows Fonts into the Fonts directory in the InterFormNG Resource directory That makes the fonts available for InterFormNG Details of font import can be found on page 46 If the designer was ru
88. ctive gt lt attributes gt attribute name mediaSize gt lt value gt na letter lt value gt lt attribute gt lt attribute name sides gt lt value gt two sided long edge lt value gt lt attribute gt lt attributes gt lt documenttype gt lt documenttype name A4 gt lt print gt InterForm A S 129 lt value gt true lt value gt lt print gt lt printer gt lt value gt lt value gt lt printer gt lt interactive gt lt value gt true lt value gt lt interactive gt attributes attribute name mediaSize gt lt value gt iso a4 lt value gt lt attribute gt lt attributes gt lt documenttype gt documentTypes lt PrintConfig gt The actual display depends on the printers installed The XML file has been changed The first level under PrintConfig contains these elements PrinterTypes Printers DocumentTypes Each one are described below including the attributes available within PrinterTypes The printerTypes block is a list of printer types each having a definition of which parameters are supported for that type and which values are valid for each parameter Note that these values are somewhat technical and not easy to write in manually Fortunately they may be retrieved automatically through the command line tool as shown above The list of supported attributes typically contain several names and value lists As you will see later these attributes may be set to specif
89. d Select background image and then select the image Setup View Help Measure amp n lt EN LE Language b m Background image gt Select background image Revision log ld Keep image ratio al i Pus Display transparent background To enable the image you need to click on this icon on the lower left 5g This icon indicate that the background image has been enabled Possible options for the background image are Keep image ratio The background image is scaled to fit the page but still keeping the ration between height and width so that the whole page will not be filled out unless the ratio between height and width are the same for the page Disable this to fit both the height and the width to the page i e the image will fill up the complete page Display transparent background You can make the background transparent to clearly see the new design template Enable this to do that Revision log It is possible to activate a revision log on each template When activated you are prompted for a description of the changes you have done no journal of the changes is saved Under Setup you can chose to activate a revision log for all templates that you change by activating Force revision during save View Help Measure i lt C Ey qP I Language IR Background image Revision log k v Force revision during save You can also set a revision log flag on each template so any colleague or customer editing the
90. d to a printer in that physical location To give administrators this level of print parameter control script code is given access to meta data for the document being printed in the form of a variable called metaData This variable is a java Map consisting of key value pairs with key being a String type and value being in principle any type of object but most often another String One problem that might require scripting is if a customer wants special print attributes applied to print for a specific department An example of how this might be solved is shown here attribute name chromaticity gt lt expr gt lt CDATA String departmentNumber metaData get departmentNumber if deptNumber equals 4711 Executive department return color else return monochrome gt lt expr gt lt attribute gt In the code fragment above the department number of the document is examined and if this number equals 4711 the document is printed in color Otherwise it is printed in monochrome Please note that the metaData key departmentNumber is used only as an example InterformNG doesn t by itself have any special fields for department numbers the field and its value would have to be supplied along with the document Some types of meta data are collected or generated during the conversion from XML to PDF and is made available to scripts through the metaData variable This could be the value of document var
91. de Scope control Keep styles In the example above the number of runs is determined by a number which is found in the XML file to the right As the number found is 3 the repeat loop is run 3 times Any styles defined are kept after exiting the repeat loop because of the selected scope control The number of repeats can also be set to a constant variable function and even a translation value 86 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Define Cursor Element XML Use the Define Cursor element to define create a new cursor or pointer which is pointing to a position in the XML file This cursor can later be referenced in other elements like e g Text If and ForEach In the properties you simply state the name of the cursor Refer to page 47 for an example of how this can be used Select Cursor Element Ei F L F Offset The Select Cursor element sets an existing cursor to a path in the XML file defined by Xpath State the cursor name in properties unless you want to set the default cursor The cursor can later be used in other elements when referencing to XML file data then you just need to refer to the relative path from this cursor zpath Cursor reference name Normally the design starts from position 0 0 from the top and left and elements are positioned relative to this Instead you can also name a specific position on the page and then place elements referring to this named offset
92. de will be scaled to fit the output resolution which will create a barcode of a different size compared to PDF and Postscript to make the barcode as scannable as possible Reduce the output size If the output is getting too large or if you have performance issues you can reduce the resolution and check if the result is still acceptable remember to test all types of output that you want to generate PCL PDF and Postscript InterForm A S 69 Error Style e The Error Style tells InterFormNG what to do if a problem should occur The list of monitored errors can be seen here Properties ID Missing resources Missing template Unset we Missing Fan Ignore x Missing image Warning v Missing dacument Fatal m Invalid template model Invalid xpath Unset v Illegal nested element Unset Element unreachable Unset Invalid element Unset wj Duplicate reference names Unset 1 m Element outside bounds Outside page label border Unset vi Overlapping element Unset Processing document errors Invalid barcode Unset v Undefined Font glyphs Unset J Illegal append Unset v Illegal reference nset Too many scope levels Unset For each possible problem 4 settings are possible Unset This is undecided Use whatever value that may have been selected earlier Ignore Ignore the problem and proceed W
93. document and to prove that no one altered the document after you added your signature The digital signature is added as a digital certificate that you will need to create yourself or buy from a trusted issuer Prerequisites Before you can create PDF files with a digital signature you need these things Apart from InterFormNG with a license which includes the PDF Security module 156 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 e A digital certificate file pkcs12 or pfx which includes the private key e You need retrieve the alias of the digital certificate a procedure for getting that is included below e You need to install Java Cryptography Extension JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files which enables the use of stronger encryption Below each of these prerequisites are covered Getting a digital certificate file A digital pkcs12 certificate can be bought from various trusted suppliers As an example we will here show to get a free test certificate file from Verisign which is valid for 25 days Goto this site http www symantec com verisign digital id Now click Buy now on the upper right File Edit View Favorites Tools Help m 7 dh v Pagey Safetyv Tool C Norton Small amp Medium Business Enterprise Partners V Symantec Enterprise United States Shopping v Search Q Products amp Solutions v tt Products amp Solutions Products Symantec User Authentication Solution
94. e ae 3 Top oam Top Text Text 9 Text i Text Name Fixed texts Set name fo alow external use of element Now other templates can refer to it Before we can reuse the group in the other template we first need to import it as described on page 50 Finally you can use the include element to refer to this group by inserting the include element A and then state the template and element to use The type of elements that you want to reuse could of course be any element Just remember that if you want to share and reuse styles via such a group then you need to activate Keep styles for the group in question If you forget the styles defined are forgotten after the group have been executed Are there any groups of elements in the current template that could be reused more than once If yes Group the elements together and give the group an export name Now you can refer to these groups with the include element as well You do not need to import groups that are within the same template Create Fixed areas when possible Try whenever you can to group elements together in fixed or flow areas It makes it much easier to maintain in the longer run It is e g much easier to reposition a complete area instead of repositioning each individual element inside Remember that you can even create sub areas within areas With the fixed area below we state where the group of text elements is to be plac
95. e Some golden module widths should be considered if you want the barcode size to be as close as possible for 203 300 and 600 dpi These golden values are 4 9 12 13 19 22 23 If you want to see a barcode size close to the actual output it is a very good idea to select the same resolution in a print style refer to page 69 for details Display text Activate this if you want the text in the barcode to be written as human readable text below the barcode Checksum With this you can chose to add a checksum to the barcode The possible values are Unset Keep the previous value As default a checksum will not be added Check Tests the checksum of the input data Invalid checksum results in an error Ignore The checksum is not tested and is not added unless it is included in the input data This is the default In pre 2014 versions you could also select Auto as the value This is no longer supported so if used the barcode style will be marked in red and an error will InterForm A S 65 occour after an upgrade 001010 Invalid barcode Illegal value for checksum AUTO will be issued until you change the value Module ratio The module ratio is the ratio between the wide and narrow lines in the barcode A value of e g 2 5 will make the wide lines 2 5 times as wide as the narrow lines The ratio will be rounded down to fit a whole number of dots in the specific printer resolution as specified in the output configuratio
96. e InterFormNG Cmd application in this way Under All Programs you select InterFormNG and CmdTool When selecting this option a Dos Window will open If you here run the command Printconfig an example XML configuration is displayed gt printconfig lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 standalone yes gt lt PrintConfig xmIns http interform400 com xml schemas 2010 01 01 gt lt printerT ypes gt lt printerT ype gt lt id gt printer1 T ype lt id gt lt supportedAttributes gt lt supportedAttribute name copies gt supportedAttribute name orientation gt lt value gt portrait lt value gt lt value gt landscape lt value gt lt supportedAttribute gt lt supportedAttribute name mediaSize gt lt value gt iso A4 lt value gt supportedAttribute name mediaTray lt value gt manual lt value gt lt supportedAttribute gt lt supportedAttribute name chromaticity gt lt value gt monochrome lt value gt lt supportedAttribute gt lt supportedAttributes gt lt printerT ype gt lt printerT ypes gt lt printers gt printer type printer1 Type gt id printer1 id lt name gt HP Color LaserJet 4700 lt name gt lt printer gt lt printers gt documentTypes documenttype name Letter gt print lt value gt true lt value gt lt print gt lt printer gt lt value gt lt value gt lt printer gt lt interactive gt lt value gt true lt value gt lt intera
97. e a good idea of how it can be used with InterFormNG In XPath you can e g refer to data in this XML file E Meta information 9 XML Encoding iso 8859 1 6 XML Version 1 0 o 6 XML Standalone false m E Data i d mins xsi http www w3 org 2001 KMLSchema instance Header e Type VDA49 2 i Subtype 45 pss TradingPartner PORSCHE 6 FormType STANDARD 6 User wernert 6 AccountingEntity 1 B Location 001 B Copies 1 L mee Printer DEFAULT i Tray DEFAULT eq Body Label eq Receiver aa HecernerLine Dr Ing h c F Porsche AG 6 sequence 1 Ghd ReceiverLine 70435 Stuttgart 6 sequence 2 If you type this in InterFormNG as the XPath Data Header Type then the actual text retrieved is VDA4902 Also the Xpath Data Header Type text will retrieve this value Please note that the Xpath is case sensitive Starting with a indicates that you are referring to the node from the root of the XML file It the Xpath does not start with a then the path is relative to a an XML file cursor This cursor can in InterFormNG previously have been set via a Select Cursor Element in InterFormNG or via a ForEach Element Data Body Label If you insert the XPath above in a ForEach Element then InterFormNG will run the loop for each label node in the XML file You can then inside of the ForEach loop refer to the data inside the label e g with an Xpath like this
98. e gt lt invoicenum ber gt 102 lt invoicenum ber gt lt orderline gt charlie lt orderline gt lt orderline gt delta lt orderline gt lt orderline gt echo lt orderline gt 116 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 lt invoice gt lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt invoice gt lt invoicenumber gt 103 lt invoicenumber gt lt orderline gt foxtrot lt orderline gt lt orderline gt golf lt orderline gt lt orderline gt hotel lt orderline gt lt orderline gt india lt orderline gt lt invoice gt So by simply stating the path that should trigger the split you will get each branch in separate files like above So that is the simplest way to split but the contents of the output is fixed For more advanced splitting and transforming we will need to use XSLT which is described on page 120 The files created by the transform function will as default be created in the INTERFORMNG_HOME transform_box directory named the same as the original file with a counter added at the end e g Example 1 xml Example 2 xml etc The files created in the tranform box or whatever output directory you specify will not automatically be deleted but will be overwritten if you transform an XML file with the same name again If you want to build a template for the splitted files you can e g copy one of them from INTERFORMNG_HOME transform_box into INTERFORMNG_HOME resources document and import it in the template Inte
99. e this address http 127 0 0 1 1885 webapp springmvc If you want to use a different port number you can change that in two ways Via the web interface You can set that as the Jetty port via General system settings as shown on page 28 Via an XML configuration file If you are unable to start the web server e g because the port number is already used for something else then you can change it by opening the xml configuration file inside INTERFORMNG HOMEVProfiles default webapplication properties with Notepad and set the new port number to use as the Jetty port a webapplication properties Notepad File Edit Format View Help Mon Dec 10 16 55 10 CET 2012 jetty port 8080 webcontig language en service web log daysToKeep 30 InterForm A S 25 The changed port number will take effect from the next restart of the web server Refer to page 100 for how to restart it After changing the port number you might want to change the link you have installed for accessing the web interface J InterFormNG a CmdTool 7 Designer InterFormNG on the Web __ InterFormNG web admin 4 Back tal InterFormNG web admin Target type Intemet Shortcut Taraet location InterFormNG Target C Program Files InterFormNG webadm ur Start in C Program Files lnterFormNG Shortcut key None Rn Comment Open Fein Ghnge icon ii URL http 127 0 0 1 3080 webapp springmvc Shortcut key None Visits Unknown
100. e will be selected the first one in the list A blank condition or rather a rule without a condition will function as a dummy condition which is always true InterForm A S 111 Working with actions For each rule you can setup one or more actions to be executed Click the Actions tab to view the actions for the specific rule InterForm New Generation ia Home amp System Configurations Input Configurations E Processing Output Configurations 7 oJ Workflow Configurations P Actions Templates Selection Training Main _Entry itpl A blank action selects the normal default action This will mean If the template is blank then the default template setup in the System configuration will be used and that will decide what output to generate If you leave the output type and meta data blank in the screen above then the outputType and meta data must be setup in the used template and then this will be used If you specify anything in the screen above then these settings will override the specifications in the template You can add one or more actions by clicking the Add Action icon above Setting meta data values For each action you can set some meta data keys if needed To work with them you just mark an Action to view the meta data keys already set for this action To add a new meta data key you click the Add Meta Value icon InterForm New Genera
101. eb server to prompt for a name insert it in an XML file use a socket call in InterFormNG to convert the XML file into PDF and present the resulting PDF file in the browser Grab org apache camel camel core 2 9 0 Grab org apache camel camel groovy 2 9 0 Grab org apache camel camel jetty 2 9 0 Grab org slf4j slf4j log4j12 import org apache camel Processor import org apache camel impl DefaultCamelContext import org apache camel language groovy GroovyRouteBuilder def WEB PAGE2 html body form actionz method post gt Please enter your name lt input type text name name lt form gt lt body gt lt html gt def XML xml name NAME x name Ixml def TEMPLATE Hello itpl def generatePdf exchange gt def inputForm new Properties inputForm load exchange in body def name inputForm name World def xml XML replace NAME name def map x interform metadata com interform400 xml Template TEMPLATE def props new Properties props load new FilelnputStream new File System env INTERFORMNG HOME profiles default plugins network printjob conf plugin properties if props enabled false throw new Exception Network printjob not enabled def port props network printjob portNumber tolnteger def encoding UTF 8 def socket new Socket 127 0 0 1 port def os socket outputStream def request new BufferedWr
102. ect the ReceiverLine node s where the sequence is 1 The simplest way to refer to xml nodes is to click on the node in the XML tree and then click on the icon Select from document in the text element above Refer to Appendix A on page 123 for additional information about Xpath Variable Include the value of a variable in the output If you want to combine the value of the variable you should chose Xpath instead Function This refers to an internal function in InterFormNG Available functions are PAGE NUMBER PAGE NUMBER_TOTAL and TIMESTAMP The function PAGE NUMBER will return the current page number of the output making it possible to e g print the number via the text element The function PAGE NUMBER_TOTAL inserts the total number of pages in the output This will show up as 99999 in the result view in the designer and only show the correct in the final result The TIMESTAMP function returns the current date and time You select the function via a drop down list Translation You can refer to a translation table If you select this you are asked for a resource and a key The resource field is one of the available translation tables In order to make a translation table available you need to import it first The key is the key value for which you are doing a lookup in the translation table The resulting value is inserted in the output The translations are described on page 54 Data type To the right of the element type Constant Vari
103. ed Identities and none of itss parent Certificates are Trusted Identities Now you would probably want to trust this identity You can do this in these manners 1 Right click on the Signed by XXXX text above Click Properties and you will see this Signature Properties ed Signature validity is UNENOWE Summary Document signer Date Time Legal Signed by secrypt GMbH PN lt mail secrypt de gt 0000000 Reason Nat available Date 2010309 12 14 50 0200 Location Mot available Validity Summary Lr The Document has not been modified since this signature was applied ER The signer s identity is unknown because it has expired ar is not yet valid J Signature date time are From the clock an the signer s computer Signature was created using Adobe Acrobat Validate Signature 162 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Then select Show certificate and then another window will open where you click the Trust tab Certificate Viewer This dialog allows you to view the details of a certificate and its entire issuance chain The details correspond to the selected entry C Show all certification paths Found E 4 7 eS t Advanced CA 2006 lt info d tr Summary Details Revocation Trust Policies Legal Notice zecrypt GmbH PM zmailimsecryp This certificate is not trusted Trust Settings Sign documents or data Certify documents Execute dynamic co
104. ed des tens Peete eee es 34 PDF ConligurallOD 246 bea eee se ERR Hak de SOs Pee Sede e Es 34 ZPL Configuration 0 200 ce ee 34 Output Configurations 4 3 9 1 09e HUC ots beg e oH SSS 3 PUE SIE Bea EU 39 Printer configuration 20 titiisin trawi maa a 35 Archive Configuration 200 000 eee 36 Email Configuration llle 37 Starting the Designe us cac ox 3043 PROS SUN E ap ELA RES VN RUE rape 8d c 39 Before starting the designer the first time llle 39 Cetind Slatted 24 pudet dori o9 EFL TEPRCETESEPREEPLIOS POET RES E 39 Opening an XML file for designing llli 41 A Hello World example 24 wa 52048 dro xo doge Eno s deo exc b gode Es 42 Import external tesOUfF CS su adi ra duced aide sca i a ducit aide sic VU du P itu EE Red 46 Importing a new font lllllllee ee 46 Importing XML file s llle RA ec 47 Using multiple XML files an example 47 Importing another template 0 0 0 00 00 0 eee 50 Importing a new iMage 1 e 52 Setting the image SIZe 1 ee 52 IIDOFIDS d IS SSOUlCG 23454228 ETTIT PPUIESLOEPURRETSITIJSUTETI E P9 53 Importing a translation table issues m Ee ened dees eae ees E eR nos 54 Example of translation files llle 55 Designing templateS E ee ee ee eee eee eee eee ee eee ae eee ee ee ee ee 56 Viewing Input and or Result window llle 57 Using Styles in InterFormNG
105. ed on the InterForm A S 93 output Ei Elements Top 6 Text style 6 Page style El Page H E Statics E E EEE 6 Top 6 Text Text line 1 Text Text line 2 Top 3 000 Left 1 000 Use offset variable Keep styles And the first text element is placed as starting in position 0 0 and relative to the fixed area El Fixed Area 6 Top Top 0 000 Left 0 000 Use offset variable F Selection input Constant Text Substitute variables F Selection input constant P line 1 Fixed Area Top 6 Text Text line 1 i 6 Eee Layout settings Top 0 040 Left 0 000 Use offset variable Selection input Constant Text Substitute variables F Selection input constant Text line Z In the final output the 2 texts are printed under each other 3 inches from the top and 1 inch from the left 94 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 The Flow area Consider the Flow area if you are handling a very flexible design where you want elements to be placed relatively to each other Such an example are detail lines Here you can even use the NewLine element to force a line break With a setup like below we are printing all the detail lines of an xml document B l Elements e Top 6 Text style 6 Page style Page H Statics E GREER Top ForEach Detail line ve z Top n Top 1 000 Left 1 000 Use offset variable Minimum
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107. election input Xpath Select from document Selection input constant This is the value of my variable concat File variable pdf The example on the right defines the value of the new variable based on another variable Notice that you need to use Xpath when referring to a variable both for this and the variable update element Variable Update Element This element is used for updating an existing variable You use this element to to change the value of an existing variable The variable element above is used for creating new variables Here is an example left Here we use Xpath to assing a new value to the variable called counter simular to this counter counter 1 88 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Variable Name counter Selection input Xpath Substitute variables Selection input Xpath 1 counter Cursor name Target Current node Context nodes Refer to page 125 for another example using a longer Xpath expression Metadata Element mls The metadata element is used for adding document metadata information Some of the possible metadata fields are shown on page 103 The metadata can e g be used for specifying what kind of output s the incoming XML file should be converted to InterForm A S 89 Combining Styles and groups When you insert a style element then this element is normally only active within the current group A group is defined as a subtree
108. ements that should be included in fixed positions on each page e g a header a footer or even a watermark If so it should be considered to place these elements inside the static group of the used page element Elements inside the static group of the page element are executed automatically on each page Here we even use the function PAGE NUMBER for conditioning the elements based on the current page number with the If element In this manner we can create one header for page 1 and another for the other pages An example of such a setup is shown below Notice that the Pre subgroup under the Statics is executed before the page is filled out stated outside Statics and the Post subgroup is executed after the page is filled out and a page break is executed right after this The Post can e g be used for triggering a page total or simular Layout elements 6 Textstyle Ell Page E Top El Statics E 2 Pre Text style H A IF PAGE 1 E If PAGE 4 bs E Top m 6 Offset style 6 Include 6 Offset style 6 Include EI Post The If conditions look like this Properties Comparison Datatype Text T Comparator d Type Function T Text Function PAGE NUMBER 96 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Constant Text Constant 1 Solution to Element unreachable If you get an error like this when trying to preview the result of your template Unable to
109. emplate normally placed in C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data InterFormNG resources tem plate e Training Training IFA00 invoice Contact Information itpl kse I File Edit Setup View Help 6 Settings 2 42 Import JJ XML documents 2 23 Templates amp Top e J Resources J Translations I Properties Description Template File Training Footer itpl C Resource name Footer template The name you state at the very bottom is the name you refer to in the template when elements from this sub template should be inserted You can use the import export of templates to e g define your company styles which should always referred to or by creating a common header or footer template that many other templates refer to Below an example of such an export is shown 50 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Group Stiles me Top 6 Locale style 6 Colorstyle 6 Page style 6 Label style 6 Print style 6 Error style 6 Tetstyle 6 Barcode style CODE 38 Cd If Page size test 1 ForEach Label 6 Page style H E Page LABEL STYLE Error style ignore elements H Group TEST Properties In Export Scope control Keep styles In the import you can now import these styles to be referred to later via an include element Template File Common templates tp LE The properties of
110. er manual The manual feed input tray in the printer middle The middle input tray in the printe side The side input tray top The top input tray in the printer InterForm A S 135 Attribute Description Examples of values MediaSize Specifies the media name on which to print The list of formally supported values is shown below Note that the target printer may support media sizes not shown in this list and may reject some of the media sizes shown You can specify any value that the printer understands a b c d e Specify value to indicate the general paper format to use For example a for A sized paper executive folio invoice iso a0 iso a10 iso b0 iso b10 iso cO iso c6 Standard iso sized paper for example iso a4 for A4 size iso designated long italy envelope monarch envelope na letter na 10x13 envelope na 10x14 envelope na 10x15 envelope na 6x9 envelope na 7x9 envelope na 8x10 na 9x11 envelope na 9x12 envelope na number 10 envelope na number 11 envelope na number 12 envelope na number 14 envelope na number 9 envelope personal envelope Italic and North American envelope sizes japanese double postcard japanese postcard Special postcard paper sizes jis bO jis b10 Japanese paper size variations ledger na 5x7 na legal na letter tabloid North American paper size variations quarto Scripting In the example above you will notice t
111. ernate it is possible to let InterFormNG create the needed table s and fields But you can also use an existing database In that case you ll have to edit job hbm xml to use the correct table and fields To access the database InterFormNG needs a username password and the authorization to read and update the database In this example we will use a database named interformDatabase and a user called interformUser with the password interformPassword But you can change that if you want to The Database Make sure the database is running If itis not running MySQL can be started with the following command service mysqld start But it should be running as a daemon Make sure the database and user is created and that the user has the needed authorization On MySQL you ll have to do something like mysql u root p create database interformDatabase create user interformUser Q localhost identified by interformPassword grant alter create delete drop index insert select update on interformDatabase to interformUser Q localhost InterFormNG don t need all the granted privileges alter drop etc is only needed if you want InterFormNG to create the needed table s and fields InterFormNG only needs insert select and update priviledge insert is only needed if you use the metadata table more on this later On a running production server it might be a good idea to only grant insert select and update JDBC Driver
112. ersion 2014R09 Example of translation files When you refer to the used translation files you refer to the root or default translation file You create an additional file for each language that you want to handle like below Please notice the fixed naming of each file and language below Organize v Include in library Share with v Burn New folder 4 InterFormNG E Name i Ji licence E translat 3 translate properties a profiles Zh Vid translate da DK properties d default translate en GB properties 4 di resources 25 translate ru RU properties document d font d image X mail template di template X translation As you can see the specific languages need to be included in the file name as shown above You can use the Locale style to see all possible values for the languages If you refer to a language that is not listed then the default root file here translate properties file is used Also if you refer to a key value not found in the specific language then the value from the default file is used if found InterForm A S 55 Designing templates In this section we will describe how you can design the template layouts In order to start designing you need to open the template or create a new template and click the Layout tab in the top then click on Top or any other element below to add or change design elements Ci Training Training IFADO invoice ity File Edit Setup View Help La i
113. ertically you divide the screen so you can see both like this Place windows manually Place windows horizontally 3 If DK xmi Maximize spool window 6 Metadata mediaType from XML fi MOM NE 6 Metadata mediaType print EJ Training Training_IF400_invoice itp kse 25 11 2011 17 16 34 Revision 1 0 8 InterFormNG Designer 2011 5 0 SNAPSHOT Repository CMInterFormNG New Memory Used 245 1820 Mb cis 2s J File Edit Setup View Help at Te y ate Tole U d SE s So e B5 53 pa r gt eG XML documents BE Templates BE Resources i amp XML documents m IF400 Demo Spooled File invoice archive DE xml Translations amp Meta information Ei Elements 6 XML Encoding utf 8 Pe 6 XML Version 1 0 H EJ Group all XML Standalone false A Root type invoice 6 output archive language DE Document 6 Company Herring Marine Research 8 Contact person Martin Merman 779 Date 20 09 2011 6 Documento 1004 779 Adress1 Seaweed Street 14 Adress2 9000 Battleaxe U Result be 000 0 120 1 000 1 120 2 000 2 120 o 3 12 0 0 5 000 120 6 120 o 7 120 8 000 INVOICE TEMPLATE ZInterForm Herring Marine Research Page 1 Seaweed Street 14 9000 Battleaxe DK Denmark 1004 PMK 20 09 201 1 Att Martin Marman a InterForm A S 57 Using Styles in
114. et as value of variable invoice_text which in this case is language dependent and contains e g the value Invoice or Rechnung concatenated with the document number which is found in the XML file and finally the extension pdf is added so that a possible value of filename could be Invoice1001 pdf 126 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Appendix B Edit printing setup in setup files When setting up InterFormNG for printing the normal way would be to configure this in the web interface as described on page 25 You can however add much more functionality into the configuration files if needed You can even write your own scripts in the configuration files to e g dynamically select the printer without changing the templates Here the setup files behind the scenes are described Setting up InterFormNG for printing require these steps InterFormNG Home refers to the path saved in the InterFormNG Home environment variable e Edit the file InterFormNG Home Profiles default application properties The file can have this content Service resource settings service pdf outputPath c temp service xmlengine defaultTemplate filename order PS itpl Log settings service log daysToKeep 30 designer log daysToKeep 30 poll enabled true interval in seconds poll interval 5 trigger enabled false trigger port 9999 trigger answer Request is being processed In the file above you should select the template desig
115. f Adobe Reader lll File Edit View Window Help amp f Er E e ba hlel e as ES E za ee A The file you have opened complies with the PDF A standard and has been opened read only to prevent modification Validate All Document has not been modified since this signature was applied Signer s identity is unknown because it has not been included in your list of trusted identities and none of its parent certificates are trusted identities Signing time is from the clock on the signer s computer Signature Details Last Checked 2013 08 30 16 31 07 02 00 Field Signaturel invisible signature Click to view this version You might think this indicates a problem but it only states that the signature is trusted and the issuer is also not trusted so you will need to trust the issuer or the current certificate InterForm A S 161 Trusting signatures When you receive a PDF file with a digital signature you need to decide if the signature can be trusted or not If the signature and its parent certificate is not trusted either you will see something simular to this under Signatures in Acrobat Reader 5 0 or later Recipient Signatures The following people have digitally signed this document Signed by XXXXX YYYYYY Signature validity is unknown Document has not been modified since the signature was applied Signers identity is unknown because it has not been included in your list of Trust
116. from a pre 2014 version and you defined the type to be Unset then the barcode style will look like this 64 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Alignment Vertica 3 Unset Top Baseline Bottom Horizontal Unset Left Right Barcodes styles Type Select Layout direction a Unset Columns Rows As you can see the Unset value is shown as Select and the element is shown in red to indicate an error This barcode style is ignored until you select a specific barcode type After selecting a specific type you can also edit it For details of how barcode styles are converted please refer to page 165 in Appendix H Height The height of the barcode in the measurement you have chosen via Setup and Measure Module width The size of the smallest bar unit in the barcode This is measured in 1 1000 parts of an inch so that a width of 1000 equals 1 inch InterFormNG will select a width that is as close as possible to this value rounded up to the nearest number of whole dots The width of a dot depends on the printer resolution and for PDF the printer style setting Here are the widths of a dot in some resolutions 1 dot in 203 dpi is 1 203 0 0049 inch wide 1 dot in 300 dpi is 1 300 0 0033 inch wide 1 dot in 600 dpi is 1 600 0 0017 inch wide So the width of a barcode may vary depending on the select module width and the printer resolution setup in output configuration in the web interfac
117. g length substri ng before date su bstring before date concat substring 0 1 2 strin g length substring before date substring befor e date substring 0 1 2 string length substrin g before substring after date substring bef ore substring after date substring after su bstring after date Input format eo er 2014 31 08 08 31 2014 31 08 14 31 8 14 date format 31 8 14 MASK Use date format Use date format eee dale No action needed d M yy format Use date format Sunday 31 August 2014 Use date format Use date format Use date format Sun 31 Aug 2014 Use date format Use date format Use date format Use date format August 31 2014 Use date format Use date format Use date format Use date format concat 20 substring after s ubstring after date substring 0 1 2 string length substring before sub concat 20 s ubstring concat substring concat substring date 7 4 No action CAC Gates 1 4 substring dat date 12 string after date substring j Mid 3 Substring l Date format needed A e 1 2 substri substring before substring date 9 2 4 Su date 4 2 n Hy Ho HY won DE ng da
118. g use the formulas in the bottom row numeric calculations and use the numeric mask in the leftmost column Date format A date must be written in the format YYYY MM DD Year Month Day with preceding zeroes i e 2014 08 31 is valid while 2014 8 31 is not valid The input date format found in the XML file might however be different from this and the requested output format might of course also be different Refer e g to this link for explanation of how to type a date mask http docs oracle com javase 7 docs api java text SimpleDateFormat html The table below should also help you to convert dates You can convert the date format in two ways 1 Use the concat and substring xpath functions to build up the requested format this is not always simple 2 Convert the input format into the correct format YYYY MM DD and convert the date into the right output format via the formatting in the text style InterForm A S 61 Input format 2014 08 31 date format No action needed Mask yyyy dd MM 2014 31 08 08 31 2014 Output format Mask MM dd yyyy 2014 08 31 Mask 1 08 31 08 2014 TY 14 08 31 31 08 14 62 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 concat substring Q date 1 4 substring d ate 9 2 sub string date 16 2 No action needed concat substring date 9 2 substring date 6 2 su bstring date 1 4 concat substring date
119. h to the endpoint Pom xml lt xml version 1 0 gt lt project xsi schemaLocation http maven apache org POM 4 0 0 http maven apache org xsd maven 4 0 0 xsd xmlns xsi http www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema instance xmlns http maven apache org POM 4 0 0 lt modelVersion gt 4 0 0 lt modelVersion gt groupId com interforn400 groupId lt artifactId gt messagequeue lt artifactId gt lt version gt 0 0 1 SNAPSHOT lt version gt lt dependencies gt lt dependency gt groupId org apache activemq groupId lt artifactId gt activemq camel lt artifactId gt lt version gt 5 9 0 lt version gt lt dependency gt lt dependencies gt lt project gt x interform metadata mediaType archive email or print x interform metadata documentType all the usual metadata for archive email and print x interform metadata com interform400 xml Template which template to use x interform metadata xmlFromSocket Skip final step only create artifact but don t save mail or print x interform metadata interform printjob processingpriority O Immediate l Normal 2 Batch x interform metadata interform plugin integration folderName where to store temporary files The MQDemo java source package com interform400 messagequeue q4 import java io File import java io FileOutputStream import java io OutputStream import java util HashMap 4 import java util Map import org apache activemq ActiveMQConnec
120. hat values are set using the lt value gt element Typically you will be setting values this way but there is another option available that allows scripting to determine the value to use Here is an example of how to specify the copies attribute using scripting lt attribute name copies gt lt expr gt lt CDATA Calendar cal Calendar getlnstance cal setTime new Date if cal get Calendar MONTH Calendar JANUARY return 3 else return 1 gt lt expr gt lt attribute gt 136 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 In this somewhat contrived example the lt value gt element has been replaced by an lt expr gt element containing a snippet of script code The logic in the code states that in january the number of copies should be 3 otherwise it should be 1 The value of the outlying element will become the result of the return value from the script The scripting engine used is BeanShell which offers a syntax that is similar to Java For more information please refer to the official BeanShell home page which may be found here www beanshell org Access to meta data In some cases print parameters depend on meta data from the document being printed For example if a document is more than 4 000 pages long it should be printed in black and white rather than in color or if a document is generated by a specific group of users or from a workstation in a specific department it should be directe
121. he description of the Workflow on page 110 for details of that When you select a rule you can now setup a transform by clicking the Transform tab InterForm A S 115 Templates Selection AddRule RemoveRule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Transform Actions Split XPath Expression orders customer invoice default Transformation stylesheet v Folder The fields are Split Xpath Expression The path to the detail node If there are multiple nodes with this path then multiple XML files will be created split This will later be referred to as the detail path If you e g by accident have specified a path for the Split Xpath Expression which does not exist then the file will not be transformed If you are afraid of typing in the wrong path it must be 100 accurate and itis case sensitive then you can use the graphical designer and use the text element set it to xpath and use select from document refer to page 71 and copy if from there Transform stylesheet Here you can enter an XSLT stylesheet to setup the contents of the new XML file s If you keep this blank then only the detail path will be included in the new XML file s Folder Here you can type a path to where the transformed file s will be created You can state a relative path relative to INTERFORMNG HOME or the full path If you keep this blank then the XML files will be created in INTERFORMNG HOMEYtransform box The use of the folder is described
122. he detail path Split Xpath Expression but not the parents of this so you could not see which customer each invoice belongs to You can see the original xml file on page 115 Here you can see that invoice 101 and 102 belongs to customer number A and invoice 103 belongs to customer B To use an XSLT splt example xlst as defined above we refer to this in the workflow Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Transform Actions Name Cait vnath Cer PERA r Split XPath Expression orders customer invoice i01only Transformation stylesheet split example xslt S default Folder Please remember that the paths and nodes must be written exactly as in the XML file the Xpath expression is case sensitive The resulting xml files looks like this 120 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt order gt lt header gt InterFormNG Transform Demo lt header gt footer Copyright C 2013 footer customernumber mail noreply interform400 com gt A lt customernumber gt invoice lt invoicenumber gt 101 lt invoicenumber gt lt orderline gt alpha lt orderline gt orderline bravo orderline invoice order lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt order gt lt header gt InterFormNG Transform Demo lt header gt lt footer gt Copyright C 2013 lt footer gt lt customernumber mail noreply interform400 com gt
123. he text relative to the area Right Place the text to the right inside the area Example This is a text with a fixed width of 120 pels inch which is using width adjustment Right L Result text The green box shows the area for the text element The blue dot shows where the text is positioned 1 cm from the top and 2 cm from the left The horizontal adjustment mentioned below will set the origin alignment of the complete area 58 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Bounding control Bounds control The bounds control sets how the boundaries or actually the preceeding trailing spaces of the text should be considered The values are Logical Default The trailing leading spaces are a part of the text and will be used when aligning Physical Any leading trailing blanks are ignored when you set the text to be left or right aligned Currently the leading blanks are not ignored You can at the moment think of this parameter as Ignore trailing blanks where Physical sets this to Yes Bounds overflow On the text element you can under advanced settings set a maximum width of the text element If you do that then this setting is used Break lf you set it to break then a line break like the NewLine element will be added when the max width is reached You should only use the break option within a flow area to make sure that the line break will do a line feed Cut Set it to cut
124. his can e g be used if you want a flexible layout where the detail lines flow area starts in one position on page 1 and in another position on the following pages Scope Control Keep Styles If you activate Keep styles any styles defined within the flow area will stick even after exiting the flow area If this is not enabled then all styles defined in the flow area will only have effect within this area Break Settings Protect area from automatic page coloumn break If you want InterFormNG to consider everything within this flow area to be a block and avoid a page or column break in the middle then you should enable this option Break Settings Protect area from automatic line break If this is disabled then the text will not force a line break even if it cannot fit within the width set for this flow area If it enabled the text will be moved onto the next line if there is not room enough Line height The distance set here is the line height when a new line is inserted This can e g be used for keeping a fixed line height even if some of the lines are using a smaller font The line height will normally e g adapt to the height of the characters used for the text elements and always go below any elements inserted in the flow Under the Columns tab you have these two settings InterForm A S 81 Number of Columns As default only one column will be added to each page and a page break is issued if a NewLine is
125. iables the total number of pages or the name of the current user Printing labels on Zebra printers InterFormNG includes a plugin which is capable of rendering ZPL2 for use on Zebra printers This allows you to use your design templates to output labels on Zebra printers Requirements In order to print labels on Zebra printers you must complete the following steps e Connect a Zebra or ZPL2 compatible printer to the machine on which the InterF orm NG service runs e Update the Print Configuration XML document to include a reference to the Zebra printer Described on page 128 InterForm A S 137 e Ensure that the ZPL rendering plugin is correctly installed and configured Connecting and installing the Zebra printer Begin by physically connecting the printer to the network or to the local machine Please refer to the Zebra operating manuals for more information on how to do this Next you must add the printer to your operating systems list of printers For windows you can download the relevant printer drivers from the Zebra support web site For other operating systems your options are limited to whatever support is available natively You may use any printer driver that supports sending a raw byte stream to the device For Linux you can use the Local Raw printer driver Updating the Print Configuration Before you can print any labels you must configure InterFormNG to use the printer This is done in the Print Configuration XML file
126. ibed above then this trigger port will be used You signal that a new XML file is available by opening and closing a connection to this port This technique works for both databases and files Return to the previous screen by clicking either Close or Save on the lower right not shown above Setting the log level To set the log level you logon to the web server and click System Configurations and Log Settings 28 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Log Settings Filter Log Service Log Level Errors v Web Log Level Errors Y Designer Log Level Errors OOOO A Logging Off Fatal Errors Errors Warnings Info Debugging All Close Save This is where you the level of details that you would like to have included in the log files generated by the service web server and the designer You might be asked to change this to include more information in the log files in case of a Support issue Notice that including a lot of details in the log files can have a negative impact on the performance of the product User configuration As default InterFormNG is delivered with 2 users Admin and user The admin user is able to change anything while the user is only able to display the setup You reach this option from the web interface by selecting System Configurations and User Configuration User Management New Delete Filter Wornlieinils Username Is Administrator Is Enabled Username
127. ic values for individual documentTypes and no value can or should be set unless the relevant printer supports that value Note that the id element contains a printer type name This is a local name of a printer type which you can freely define Having these printer type definitions allows you to define a long list of identical printers that all support the same attributes by simply referencing the same printer type Printers The printers block defines a list of printers each referencing a printer type Each entry in the list also identifies the printer network name to use The reason for having the printers list is so that document types can specify destination printers based on a logical id rather than the name of a specific printer This way if a printer on the network needs to be replaced only the name in the corresponding printer element needs to be changed the documentType definitions can remain as they are DocumentTypes At the end of the XML example above you can see how to define a document type This block is where a document of a logical type such as a letter or a label is matched to a concrete printer along with a set of print attributes An example of such a configuration might be that documents of type Letter should go to the HP printer on the first floor and should be printed in color and stapled if there are more than one page This could be done via this addition to the printConfig xml file lt documentTypes gt
128. ice Started Automatic Stop the service f f R Restart the service InterFormNG Web Configuration Service Started Automatic InterForm A S 99 Now double click on the service in question and after selecting the Log on tab you can seta specific user to use for this service pa InterFormNG Document Processing Service Properties Local Co Recovery Dependencies Log on as Local System account E Allow service to interact with desktop C This account Help me configure user account log on options Starting and stopping the Services After installing and configuring the service you can now start and stop the service by selecting this in Windows Starting the Document Processor service Start All Programs InterFormNG Service and Start Service Stopping the Document Processor service Start All Programs InterFormNG Service and Stop Service Starting the Web service Start All Programs InterFormNG Service web and Start W eb Service Stopping the Web service Start All Programs InterFormNG Service web and Stop Web Service A DOS window may briefly be opened and closed to indicate that the request is being executed Alternatively you can start stop and restart these services from the Windows Control panel in this way 1 Go into Control Panel 2 Select Administrative Tools
129. ile s In order to design your template form you will normally need at least one sample XML file that you want to merge the template with The XML file s must be placed in the resources document directory or a subdirectory inside of this inside the InterFormNG Home directory You can import an XML file into the template if you open the template and select Import XML documents and click this icon E NEW TEMPLATE InterFormNG Designer 2C File Edit Setup View Help 1 r j 9 E qu d us P r 6 Settings PX 9 85 0 import w EF qd XML documents i i t Top Now you are asked for the XML file that you want to import Properties File IF400 Demo Spooled File invoice arch c Classification Primary Named As default InterFormNG that you will import a primary XML file If you only want to refer to a single XML file within the template then it should be a primary XML file This will be the file that is substituted when you use the Service to automatically merge incoming XML files with a template Using multiple XML files an example If you want to be able to refer to more than a single XML file then the other files should be imported as Named XML files Below an example is used to illustrate the possibilities r 6 Settings El Import EF XML documents i i9 Top 7 6 XML document Invoice XML mae XML document ContactiD Properties File ContactInformation xml N
130. iles as before but in a more simple way The transform option is also able to transform xml files hence the name The transform feature is described on page 119 e Missing no condition for a rule now selects all xml files in the workflow In the older versions of InterFormNG you needed a non empty condition to select the files This makes it easier to use the workflow Refer to page 110 for details Web interface e The default port number for the web service has been changed from 8080 in the earlier versions into 1885 If you are upgrading from an older version the old port 10 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 number will be preserved during the upgrade Page 25 describes how to specify a specific port number for the web service Conversion of Designs Templates e When upgrading from a pre 2014 version to a 2014 version or newer the templates will be converted into a new format This has only importance if you are using barcode styles If you are not using barcode styles you will not see any difference in the output and you can also open a template in any version of the designer no matter what version that created the template If you are using barcode styles you cannot directly open a converted template in a pre 2014 version as the barcode styles are stored in a different manner Refer to Appendix H on page 165 for details e A template conversion tool is started when you upgrade to a 2014 version as described on page 17 The
131. image of the output Such a printer should not be used for production printing and should be standing idle for this to work If you want to use this feature you select Processing and Transform ZPL to PDF Configuration General Settings Active Yes Zebra Printer Add 192 168 151 238 Zebra Printer Pot 9100 Zebra Printer Res 300 GS1 Databar Configuration If you want to use GS1 barcodes you should activate the feature here General Settings Active Yes InterForm A S 33 Standard Barcode Configuration If you want to use barcodes in InterFormNG then this should be activated General Settings Active Yes Image Import Configuration If you want to use images in InterFormNG then this should be activated General Settings Active Yes PCL Configuration Not used PDF Configuration Here you activate the possibility to create PDF files If you set the Disable Font Reduction feature to Yes then the PDFs will be larger but will be created a little bit faster General Settings Disable Font Reduction No Active Yes ZPL Configuration If you want to be able to print the ZPLII data stream then this should be activated General Settings Active Yes 34 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Output Configurations Here you set the attributes for the outputs that can be generated by InterFormNG Printer configuration Under the Printers tab you can change settings for the printers
132. ing Priority Here you can set the priority of the file system plugin You can set the priority to Immediate Normal or Batch Txt to XML Configuration This is module for InterFormNG so you cannot use it unless you have a license code which opens up for this functionality This module makes it possible to convert text and csv files into xml files which can be handled by InterFormNG The module has these configuration parameters General Settings Active Yes Processing Priority Normal Source Folder amp TINTERFORMNG HOMEP txt inbox File extension txt File encoding utf 8 Separation Regex Trim Whitespace Yes Line number attribute Yes Token index attribute No Copy enabled Yes Copy Target Folder amp TINTERFORMNG HOMEP txt inbox xml copy The parameters specific for this module are Source Folder The path to the folder which is scanned for new text files File extension The extension of the files that you want to convert into XML File encoding The expected encoding of the incoming text files Separation Regex The delimiter which defines the next element on each line in the text file Each element will be inserted as a separate node in the XML file Trim Whitespace If yes any leading or trailing spaces after before the delimiter will be removed before copying the file to XML InterForm A S 31 Database Configuration Instead of placing XML files in a monitored directory like above you can also place the
133. ing the XML files named Myfile xml above This specific XML file is printed on a specific printer specified by setting the associated meta data value InterForm New Generation di Home x System Configurations Input Configurations s Processing Output Configurations ali Workflow Configurations f Actions Output Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Meta Values Name Add Meta Value Remove Meta Value 4 KSE xml to HP4700 Key Value interform destination printer printerName HP4700 W e have clicked the Meta Values tab to see this InterForm A S 113 By clicking the Add Meta Value icon you can one or more meta data values to set the output printer or other printer settings In the case above we override the printer set in the template and set the output printer to be HP4700 The HP4700 printer must be registered in the InterFormNG printer configuration Example Rule setups The rules that you setup for the template and output selection can be quite advanced To help you to define the right condition a few examples are listed below In this case want to print out all on a default printer except the cheques which are identified by the contents lt xml version 1 0 encoding utf 8 gt Root lt type gt cheque lt type gt We can identify this type of XML file with this rule in the template selection
134. iresourcesitemplate Image rasterization 300 w Select Template Name Template Version Designer Version Status o barcodes itpl Up to date barcodes 2013 itpl Up to date barcodes 2013R5xx itpl Up to date BasicGroups itpl Convert CMR test font2 itpl Up to date contact information itpl Up to date default itpl Up to date demo itpl Convert demo2 itpl Convert Demo03 itpl Convert demo4 itpl Convert demo kse itpl Convert demo old itpl Convert dispatch Dispatch AIAGB10 Lara Up to date dispatch Dispatch AIAGB10 Smal Up to date dispatch Dispatch AIAGB3 Larae Up to date dispatch Dispatch ApplicationAdvi Up to date dicnoatch Dicrnatch Annlicatinnbrrar Lin ta data _ select all Convert Selected Scan Completed CCCII ISI CU XU IU The normal directory and subdirectories containing the templates is used as default but you can open another directory via File and Open if you want to convert templates outside this directory The conversion tool first scans all the templates and lists them like above These are the columns Select A click box where you can select deselect the templates As default any unconverted templates are selected Template Name The relative path and file name of the template s Template Version The version of the template This indicates if the converted template can be used in pre 2014 versions or not and also if any barcodes are used These are the values M The templa
135. iter new OutputStreamW riter os encoding map each key value gt request write key value n request newLine request write xml request flush socket shutdownOutput def response new BufferedReader new InputStream Reader socket inputStream encoding props new Properties 142 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 props load response response close socket close if props x interform response 200 def url props x interform result url substring 6 exchange out body new File url bytes else exchange out body props j as Processor def context new DefaultCamelContext context addRoutes new GroovyRouteBuilder void configure new File WORKSPACE mkdirs II context properties put CamelJettyTempDir WORKSPACE Jetty needs this from jetty http 0 0 0 0 1234 choice when it in getHeader CamelHttpMethod GET transform simple WEB_PAGE otherwise process generateP df println Starting context start addShutdownHook context stop println Stopped synchronized this wait Prerequisites e Groovy is installed http groovy codehaus org e InterFormNG is running e InterFormNG is accepting request from socket Input Configurations gt Network Configuration Run the script groovy WebFrontEnd groovy It might take some time to start the first time as it is downloading Camel http ca
136. l Settings tab in the top Active Yes Save Print Ho Save Print Dir Set the Active field to Yes to enable printing Archive Configuration If you want to generate PDF files then you set it up here You find this by selecting Output Configurations and then Archive Configuration General Settings Default Filename archive pdf Filename conflict resolution strategy Append version number to new file Target Folder C Temp archivefiles Active Yes Default File Name This is the file name that will be created as default If the file happens to exist then a file named archive 1 pdf will be generated For subsequent runs a new number is added archive 2 pdf etc The Default File Name can be overridden in the template by setting a meta data key called interform plugin archiver fileName Filename conflict resolution strategy Here you specify how InterFormNG should react if InterFormNG is trying to create a file when it already exists Rename existing file to include date Renames the existing file with a time stamp and creates the new file with the requested name Append version number to new file Creates files as e g default 1 pdf Overwrite existing file Overwrites the existing file 36 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Target Folder The target folder in which the PDF files will be created This works with the meta data key interform plugin archiver folderName which can be defined within the
137. l metadata 0 0 02 00 llle TUS EMail de Ead idus o 25 6d acpu ied eg wed ee iG Gee be ood rd op petes 106 Print metadaldis s piney nex ere ce eee wo dox Eos dw eters 106 The InterFormNG WorkFlow eee 109 Enabling the Workflow l l 109 Working with Template Selections llle 110 Working with actions 00 0000 eee ee 112 Setting meta data values aaa aaa 0 2a ee 112 Working with Output Configurations naaa aaaea ee 113 Example Rule setupS esame poko oo RR COR ee oe Pee ee eee ewes S 114 Transforming and Splitting XML files een iem 115 Activating the transform function 00000 cee ee 115 Adding actions for the transformed files 00 00000 eee 118 Same action for all transformed files 118 Different action for each transformed file 118 6 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Creating xml files in specific folders 119 Introducing SLT ende ricsa v2 ETOS eso esse oes ote 64s 894 90 924 120 Advanced transforming sasaaa 120 Splitting the intro demo xmlfile LL 121 Appendix A Using XPath with InterFormNG in short 123 Using variables in Xpath expressions llle 125 Appendix B Edit printing setup in setup files sss 127 Selecting the printer via XML 2 2 0 0 0 aa
138. lculations needed These tricks can be used for setting the output format 1 In the formulas above in indicates a variable in that contains the input data 2 The function translate is able to translate one character into another This will translate in translate iny s MARRE 60 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 e g replace any comma with a dot in the variable in translate in dM dd at 3 Refer to page 124 for details 3 The locale style decides what characters the decimal point and the thousand separator should be if used Above en US is used for a comma as thousand separator and a dot as decimal point The de DE selects the opposite You may use your own locale if it fits the output you want 4 The trailing O in the format 0 selects a 2 decimal format This is e g often used for amounts 5 Negative values must be written with a preceding minus to be recognized correctly If you want a different output format you write the format for negative values after a semicolon like e g 4 if you want a trailing minus for negative values 6 For all cells marked with a above you need to use the same numeric formatting as in the leftmost column 7 To use the numeric formatting the text element must also be set as numeric 8 For most of the formulas above the result is not real numeric i e it cannot use the numeric formatting If you want to use numeric formattin
139. le e A new module has been added PDF Security With this module you can both encrypt and password protect the output PDF files limit the access to prevent users from printing editing or copying the PDF contents and digitally sign the output PDF files This new module is described in Appendix G on page 156 PCL output e It is now possible to select the drawer or tray from which the printer should take the paper in PCL This feature is added on the page style element which is described on page 67 e Support for black white printers printers that does not support color commands has now been added The PCL output format is as default in color which most B W printers are able to print out but you can now also set the output to be in black white by setting this meta data key to false interform destination printer pcl image fullcolor The new meta data key is described on page 107 A new meta data key called multiup can now be used for placing 2 pages of output on one page also called N up or pages per side For this function you should normally use the label element as mentioned on page 78 but this meta data key can be used for creating a double sized output with 2 input pages without changing the template design This new meta data key is described on page 103 Workflow e The split function that was previously added have been removed and exchanged for a transform option in the workflow The transform is able to split xml f
140. le by clicking this icon hal ww LL udi cursor Root Document ContactID Cursor name Target Current node Context nodes 48 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 And finally we can do a lookup in the Contactlnformation xml file in this way to print the name of the contact person a e Text Name from Contact xml file NupcR Layout settings Top 7 37 Left 4 82 Use offset variable Selection input Xpath Root contact ID ID Name Cursor name ContactID cursor Target Currentnode Context nodes There are three things to notice above 1 The lookup in the Contactlnformation xml file is done by use of variable ID which is referenced via ID this is how you refer to a variable in Xpath 2 The expression Root contact ID ID Name returns the value of the Name node for which the ID is the same as the variable ID 3 The cursor name is ContactlD cursor In this way we are referring to the second named xml file InterForm A S 49 Importing another template Instead of having the complete design in one single template you can refer to other templates and include them several times in various templates thus reusing the same design many times over The other template can then in its turn refer to other templates but you do not need to import them here Click on the this element below to import a template A3 In the properties in the bottom you refer to the t
141. llation of InterFormNG you can also install them later by selecting this in Windows Select Start All Programs InterFormNG Service and Install Service You uninstall the services by selecting Start All Programs InterFormNG Service and Uninstall Service Configuring the Services Before you start the service you should determine the source directory of the XML files to be converted the output type and destination and also what template to use for the conversion Even though you currently can only refer to one template for the conversion you can still use conditions in the template to use other templates depending on the contents of th incoming XML file Refer to page 25 to see how you can configure the services via the web interface Remember to always restart the Document Processor service to activate any changes of the processor configuration In some installations you might want to run the services under a specific user e g an administrator If you want to do that you can set the user in this manner In windows go into the Control panel and select Administrative Tools and then Services File Action View Help e EE ms lHss ewnn SA Services Local Services Local InterFormNG Document Processing Name Description Status Startup Type Service Interactive Services Detection Enables use Manual LE InterFormNG Document Processing Serv
142. ltiple PCL commands you just concatenate them into the same meta data interform destination printer pcl pjl This meta data key works like interform destination printer pcl pcl except that this command inserts a PUL command in the begining of the PCL print out This PUL command can e g be used to add extra PUL commands to call functions on the printer interform destination printer finishings Possible values none staple cover bind etc Specify finishings such a stapling Typically this value is derived from the document type according to rules defined in printConfig xml Note that your printer may support many different values for this attribute according to its physical capabilities The printConfig command line tool can be used to produce a complete list of finishings values for each printer interform destination printer zebra clearBuffer Possible values true false This value is specific to Zebra label printers If the value is true the system will output a JA command immediately before printing the label thus clearing any previous print jobs that the Zebra printer may have queued 108 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 The InterFormNG WorkFlow You can do automated merges like described in the previous section but InterFormNG also contains an alternative which may help you for more complicated setups This is called W orkFlow With the workflow you can select specific XML files from name directory o
143. lways to use the latest update of Java Runtime Environment We have e g found a problem in JRE version 1 6 0 Update 45 which had an negative effect on InterFormNG which is solved simply by updating to the newest 1 6 0 update JRE 1 8 and future JRE versions are not supported for 2014 versions of NG e Regarding accessing the windows machine via Remote Desktop The user under which the InterFormNG processor service is running should not be used for signing on when accessing the machine on which InterFormNG is running If it is necessary to do that then you need to make Sure that no printers are shared on the client machine that is accessing via remote desktop or make sure that there is not printer named the same as a shared printer on the client If printers are shared the printer setup in the InterFormNG processor may be affected and the error message Error processing print job Error printing lt xxx gt document already printing can be found in the service log file while no print result can be found Installation Important upgrade Information Please check out the important information in Appendix H on page 165 for the changes involved when upgrading from a pre 2014 version to a 2014 version or higher The section below describes installation on the Windows platform Refer to Appendix D on page 145 for details of how to install on Linux Installation on AIX is described on page 146 For installing InterFormNG on the System
144. mal texts which are as default using the left edge as the origin Numeric Use the decimal point which must be a dot for the texts that has been defined as numeric Format The Format folder contains possible ways to represent dates times and numbers In order to format a date time or number then the data must fit the xml requirements for a valid date time or number You can chose to specify a mask for the output Numeric format To recognize a number as numeric the format of the data must be i e no thousand separator and a dot as decimal point and a preceding minus for negative numbers However if you want a different format in your output you can use the table below for a reference of how you can alter various input formats into a new output format Input format 1234 5 numeric 1234 5 Mask THHHER translate in translate translate 5 Locale en US in IQiny 1234 5 Mask 7HHE 3 No action needed translate translate 3 Locale en US Qin Qin 1 234 5 Mask 7HHE 3 translate in No action needed translate ms Locale de DE in 1234 5 Mask translate Qin translate No action Ou Locale de DE in needed 1234 50 Mask 0 translate in translate translate Mask 0 en US in i in Locale en US Numeric No action ca
145. mel apache org Open a browser http localhost 1234 Enter your name and press Enter How it works Camel is started at line 69 in WebFrontEnd groovy At line 75 Camel starts a Jetty server that listens on port 1234 When a GET request is received line 77 it replies with the web page line 11 When a POST request is received line 79 it e extracts the form data line 30 32 e generates xml data line 34 e opens a socket connection to InterFormNG line 46 InterForm A S 143 e sends metadata what template to use line 49 sends the generated xml data line 51 e receives the response line 55 e extracts the PDF file line 62 e and finally returns the PDF file line 63 144 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Appendix D Installing on other platforms Installation of InterFormNG on the windows platform is described on page 12 InterFormNG can in principle be installed on any java enabled platform but the installation procedure and some few functions are specific for the platform you are installing it on Below the specifics for various platforms are mentioned Installing on Linux First download the InterFormNG shell 7z file intended for this specific version There is no standard unzipper but Ubuntu should find the program p7zip itself which you then install to unzip the file It is not important where the InterFormNG library is saved but a suggestion could be usr local The Shell scri
146. ments are shown in the element list as a manually added description would do in the previous versions This helps to get a better overview of what the individual elements do This is described on page 71 e Design elements in error are shown with a red dot instead of a blue to indicate a problem An example is shown on page 98 e You will get a warning when saving a template if there are one or more errors inside the template This is described on page 98 e An ELSE option has been added for the IF element Elements placed in the ELSE folder will be executed if the condition in the IF is not true The ELSE option is described on page 85 e The Text style has been enhanced to make it possible to align the text even if the text is set to a specific width The new parameter is called Width adjustment and is described on page 58 The parameters of the text style has been rearranged and this is also described on this page e A new function PAGE_NUMBER_TOTAL which outputs the total number of pages is added This and the other functions are described on page 72 e You do no longer need to remember the various function names e g PAGE NUMBER_TOTAL All supported functions are now selectable via a drop down list This is shown on page 72 e The definition of barcodes in the barcode style has been changed This means that existing customers may experience minor differences when comparing the barcodes to the result prior to the upgrade The
147. meta data Output Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Meta Values Name Add Condition Remove Condition cheque type 1 Condition Type Specification Operator Value S dewene o METADATA paper EQUALS nei 114 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Transforming and Splitting XML files In some situations you might need to transform or split up the original XML file This can e g be necessary if multiple documents are included in a single XML file and you want to distribute them individually as e g emails or separate PDF files The function can not only split up an XML file but also transform it into a different structure hence this name Transform An example of an XML file example xml is here orders lt header gt InterFormNG Transform Demo lt header gt lt footer gt Copyright C 2013 footer customer lt customernumber mail noreply interform400 com gt A lt customernumber gt lt invoice gt lt invoicenumber gt 101 lt invoicenumber gt lt orderline gt alpha lt orderline gt lt orderline gt bravo lt orderline gt lt invoice gt invoice lt invoicenumber gt 102 lt invoicenumber gt lt orderline gt charlie lt orderline gt lt orderline gt delta lt orderline gt lt orderline gt echo lt orderline gt lt invoice gt lt customer gt lt customer gt lt customernumber gt B lt customernumber gt invoice lt invoicenumber gt 103 lt invoicenumber gt lt orderline
148. mlnfo32 exe For 64 bit windows machines http download interform400 com shares SW W indowsSystem Info64 exe When running the exe file you will see a window like this Windows System Info Version 1 0 System ID LRNDTNF System type 0301DMG Vendor LENOVO Java version 1 7 0_45 b18 Copytodipboard Exit Java version 1 7 0 45 b18 Click the Copy to clipboard icon and paste the text into an email as text to request a license code Install a licence You can install a licence code via the web interface as shown above or by copying the licence file into the licence directory a subdirectory to the InterFormNG home directory containing all settings and resources You need to restart the designer and services to use the new licence file InterForm A S 19 Installed plugins The standard installation comes with these preinstalled plugins Plugin archive manager basic printmanager database printjob email manager filesystem printjob gs1 databar renderer pdf renderer standard barcode renderer transform zpl to pdf webadm manager zpl renderer 20 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Description Archive documents to a folder Process printed documents and send them to the correct printer This plugin reads XML data from database records and converts it to PDF using an InterFormNG template Email document This plugin will scan a directory in the file system for XML files and prin
149. n For the preview and result wind the size of the barcodes are mainly defined by the settings in the barcode style but is also affected by the printer resolution set in the print style refer to page 69 so it is recommended to set the print style to the actual resolution you want to use for printing For the 2D barcodes PDF417 and QR a few extra fields may appear on the barcode style Properties Alignment Vertical Unset Top Baseline Bottom Horizontal Unset Left Barcodes styles Type PDF 417 Module width 1 1000 127 Error correction 0 Dow Module ratio 3 2D barcode settings Layout direction Unset iQ Columns p Rows Number of Columns 1 30 3 Number of Rows 3 30 Error correction This sets the error correction for the barcode The Error correction for a PDF417 barcode can be set as a value between 0 and 8 The larger the value the larger the barcode will be and easier to scan The Error correction for QR can be L M Q or H listed after size Layout direction The layout direction can be set for the PDF417 barcode This sets in which direction the barcode will grow or rather a maximum height or width Columns default sets a fixed or rather maximum width Rows sets a fixed or rather maximum height The selected layout direction decides if the specified number of columns or rows will be used the other will be ignored Image Style E 66 Manual for InterFormN
150. n to merge with when printing out That is specified as service xmlengine defaultTemplate filename above So here it is set to order PS itpl e The template used should state what kind of output you want That is done by adding this metadata in the template metaT ype print Import Layout Template settings d Locale style Page style EJ Page Properties Key value 1D Target Document Printer Printmanager Other Normalize Decode C InterForm A S 127 Properties Key Value Ip Type Constant Text Other Normalize Decode e You also need to specify which printer to use for the output This is setup in the file InterFormNG_ HOMEJ basic printmanager conf printConfig xml The structure is described below but you can also add the necessary data in this manner Open the command tool by selecting the Start All Programs InterFormNG and CmdTool When selecting this option a Dos Window will open If you here run the command Printconfig an example XML configuration is displayed Now you can copy the output into the printConfig xml file by right clicking on the head of the dos window and select Edit and Select All Now right click again on the head of the window and select Edit and Copy Finally paste the clipboard contents into the printConfig xml file Now edit the p
151. n InterFormNG will adapt to the new size e g like below multiup false Pages Page4 104 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 multiup true gt P Bv ie oa D N U Q ga D UJ A3 Page 1 A4 Page2 A4 Page3 As you can see above InterFormNG will change to a new output page if the input page size should happen to change out of sequence with the page breaks of the output i e if the page size changes from an odd page to the following even page InterForm A S 105 Email metadata These are the email metadata available email to The name or names comma separated of the recipient s to receive the e mail email templateName The file name of the template to use for the contents body of the mail relative to the mail template folder This can be either an html or rtf file See above for more information email attachment The name of the attachment to create You can use this to change the somewhat technical attachment name generated by default to something more meaningful like q4 report pdf email locale language Indicate which language you would like the mail to use The plugin uses this value to select a language specific template Example en for english email locale country Indicate which country you would like the mail to use The plugin uses this value to select a country specific template Example US for The United States of America email locale variant Indicate which coun
152. nabled You can also request and install a licence via the web interface InterFormNG will not run without a licence code You can request a trial licence via the web interface if no licence file is found This is described below Obtain a license When you decide to order a licence to run InterFormNG you must provide some information about your installation either directly during installation via the web interface or by email Beside providing your personal details you should provide some technical information as well The simplest way to find this information is to install and start the web server When accessing the web interface by selecting Start All Programs and run InterFormNG InterFormNG web admin Sign on e g as admin with the password password and then click System Configuration followed by Licensing to display the required information Then you will see a screen like below Please copy and paste the characters do not send a screen shot to avoid any typos when the licence code is generated if you want to order a licence code via email Licensing System Version 2014 R03 Licence Platform WINDOWS System Id LRND TNF System Type 0301DMG Vendor LENOVO Licence License Number 1 Licence Platform WINDOWS System Id System Type Vendor Modules Name Type Valid From Valid To Version Limit Licence Platform WINDOWS Name Kim Egeljaer System Id LRNDTNF Company InterForm A S S
153. ne way to get XML files into InterFormNG is to let the application monitor a message queue for entries Below it is described how you can set that up Enabling message queue in InterFormNG First you need to tell InterForm400 to start to monitor a message queue To do that you open the InterFormNG web interface and select Input Configurations Message Queue Configuration ese Input Configurations Qutpu il File System Configuration il Txt to XML Configuration t4 JDEdwards Configuration t4 Database Configuration A Network Configuration B Message Queue Configuration Change Active to Yes Broker URL vm broker tcp localhost 6 16 16 Active Yes Processing Priority Normal Now save the change and restart the processor service as described on page 100 InterFormNG is now using an embedded MessageMQ It is possible for other programs to access it on port 61616 External message queue If you are using an external ActiveMQ you ll have to change the Broker URL The default for ActiveMQ is tcp localhost 61616 When using an external message queue it might be a good idea to let the InterFormNG Document Processing Service depend on it Execute the following command as Administrator sc config InterFormNGProcessor depend Spooler ActiveMQ Now InterFormNG service is dependent on ActiveMQ InterFormNG Document Processing Service Properties Local Co 28 General Log On Recovery Dependencies
154. nes at the border of each label Locale Style The Locale Style sets the location which can be used for triggering the right e translation table It can e g be combined with a conditioned section that determines the location from contents in the XML file The property of this style is simply the location as selected via the drop down list as shown below Locale Mame Unset v Albanian Albania sq AL Arabic Algeria ar Dz Arabic Bahrain ar BH Arabic Kuwait ar K w The locale style also affects the output of numbers and dates so that they are outputted in the format used locally 68 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Print Style M The Print Style sets the resolution to be used for any included images This also TERT sets the resolution of the barcode images that InterFormNG is generating for the PDF output In order to get the right barcode output it is very important to select the right resolution to avoid resizing Resizing can result in possible barcode scanning problems Properties D Print styles Image rasterization 600 DPI The default value if no print style is specied is 600 dpi It is recommended to select a value which is dividable with the printer resolution without remainder so for a 600 dpi result you should avoid 72 203 240 and 1200 dpi especially if you are generating barcodes If you select one of these values for the PCL output then the barco
155. new barcode style is described on page 64 Please also note the remark about template conversion on page 11 Xpath functions supported are now not only Xpath 1 0 but also Xpath 2 0 Saxon home edition This gives you even more possibilities for doing advanced calculations of e g the contents of the input XML files Appendix A on page 123 lists some examples of how you can use Xpath e The barcode element can now select the barcode type itself The settings for the barcode type is expected to be set with a prior barcode style Previously you needed a barcode style each time you selected a different barcode type The barcode element is described on page 76 E mail output e The e mail contents can not only be written as an rtf file but you can now also use an html file as well This is covered on page 102 InterForm A S 9 PDF output e The texts and images can now also link to a URL The URL can be set not only as a constant but e g also as an Xpath expression to make it possible to build up the link partially from information found in the XML file Refer to page 71 for the text element and 77 for the image element where this can be set e Easy interface for archiving Now you can make InterFormNG generate an XML file with index values for real archiving e g in InterArchive The XML file will be named the same as the output PDF file if you are creating a PDF file This option is described on page 74 PDF Security Modu
156. nmark SWEDEN Sweden GERMANY Germany The leftmost values are the keys and the rightmost are the translated values The key can be a string without any spaces The translated value can be a longer text with spaces Later you can set the locale style in the template and thereby selecting the right translation table After you have created a simple text file e g in Notepad with keys and values specified like above you then save it into resources translation in the configuration directory as specified during installation The default full path is C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data InterFormNG resources translation Before you can refer to the translation table in the designer you need to import it like other resources So click the Import tab open the Translations folder click Top and then this icon on the left gt El Training Training_IF400_invoice itp kse 25 11 2011 17 16 34 Revision 1 0 File Edit Setup View Help ma sod sear E42 Import E XML documents B Templates HJ Resources i Translations n c 4 Top Ke EE e Ss File translate Resource name translate Now you can refer to the translation file either by typing in the name or by clicking the Open icon and selecting the file The Name field indicates the internal name to use in the template whenever you want to use this translation table 54 Manual for InterFormNG V
157. nning while you copied the fonts then you should restart the designer to make the fonts visible for the designer The designer is shipped with some preinstalled resources fonts templates images and xml files so even if you do not copy any resources to the resource directory you can still start to work with the product out of the box Getting started The first time you start the designer you will see this File Edit Setup View Help E 7 l h Mm jd 7 TJ X WESI mRNS ris qaiEvy CERESE 9 Pi 9 6 Settings 4 CJ Import Elements Page style 6 Text style S E Page amp XML documents Intro Intro_demo xml 2 2 Meta information XML Encoding utf 8 6 XML Version 1 0 XML Standalone false Root Companyinfo 6 Company Name InterForm A S Company Addr Bernstorffsvej 128 6 Company Addr2 DK 2900 s 6 Company email info interform400 com e P Company_City Hellerup 6 Company Phone 45 36 99 26 84 Theconcept t Greeting HELLO WORLD It Bao me ging XML data into a de sign nee All of the designing is donein this design too i e Barcode www interformng com Thedesigner is a WYSIWYG and Drag n Drop tool Document e Company Herring Marine Research With our Import feature we enable you to work with multiple XML files Subtemplates Images E Contact person Martin Merman translations etc The Import feature automatically loadsall items in the resource directory D
158. nt you can decide if you want to include the text element in an xml file that is intended for archiving in e g in InterArchive The output xml file is created if the index label is defined for one or more text elements and only if you are creating an output PDF file The output XML file will be created in the same directory as the output PDF file and with the same name except the extension xml The XML file contains each index label and the value the text that is the output in the text element and some general meta values e g the name of the original input xml file the path of that input file and the total number of pages 74 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Url Settings ore Selection input Constant w Text Selection input constant www intertormng com You can add a link in the PDF output for the text via the Url settings tab above The actual link can be a constant like above an Xpath expression a variable function or translation Please note that the url will not be highlighted as default e g in blue with underscore so if you want that you will need to set that up with e g the Color style refer to page 67 for details InterForm A S 75 Line Element When inserting a line element you state the coordinates of the two endpoints The endpoints are inserted in inches and pels and by first stating the distance from the top of the paper edge and then the distance from the left of the paper edge The att
159. ntent that is embedded in a certified document Execute high privilege JavaScripts that are embedded in a certified document Perform privileged system operations networking printing File access etc Add to Trusted Identities iss SL E The selected certificate has errors Mot time valid The path validation checks were done at 2010 03 09 12 14 50 02 00 Validation Model Shell If you here click Add to Trusted Identities you can decide to trust the included signature in Acrobat Reader Note that you will get a warning telling you that this is usually unwise as you then need to be 100 sure where this document comes from 2 Another way to trust a digital signature in Acrobat Reader is to select Document and Trusted Identities in Acrobat Reader Then click Add Contacts and then Import or Browse to find a file with the public key of the digital signature that you want to trust 3 The third way to trust certificates in Acrobat Reader is to trust those that has been trusted in Windows You can set that up by selecting Edit Preferences Security Advanced preferences and Windows integration InterForm A S 163 Verifying Digital Signatures Some digital signatures are sometimes stolen or misused To handle that situation each issuer of digital signatures lists a number of digital signatures that are revoked Revocation lists RCL s So it is a good idea to check with the issuer th
160. ntime environment may prohibit such dialogs from being shown interform destination printer doPrint Possible values true false Enable printing yes or no If this value is set to false the document will not be printed interform destination printer sides Possible values one sided two sided long edge two sided short edge Specify how pages are printed Typically this value is derived from the document type according to rules defined in printConfig xml interform destination printer copies Specify the number of copies to print Typically this value is derived from the document type according to rules defined in printConfig xml interform destination printer printerld Select a printer based on id as defined in printConfig xml By selecting a printer by its id in printConfig xml rather than by specific name a printer may be renamed without breaking all the templates that refer to it using the metavalue interform destination printer printerName 106 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 interform destination printer pcl image fullcolor Possible values true false Specify if the PCL output should be in color or black and white Default value is true meaning that the output is in color Most black white printers are able to convert the color images in to black white so the default value should normally be fine With false the output is in black white and you should also expect a smaller output data stream with this
161. otal when all detail lines for the current page has been printed Label Element EH The label element is to be inserted within a Page element tree as mentioned above With the label element you insert multiple labels per page in the pattern as indicated on the page element These are the properties of the label element Properties Description Positi Top 0 00 Left 0 00 Use offset variable cope control Keepstyles The page element decides for the actual positions of the labels so the position here is the position relative to this With the keep styles option you tell InterFormNG to keep the styles defined within the label element subtree even after the label influencing the rest of the page Remember to set the properties with the label style before inserting a label The label style is mentioned on page 68 You need to enable the labels and set properties on the page element in the label tab and then you can insert the label elements inside the page element You would normally insert the label element inside a ForEach element to add a label for each node in the xml file or e g inside a Repeat element to insert e g a constant or calculated number of labels 78 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Group Element i With the group element you create a subtree or group of element that can WM be exported and used in other templates You can also use the group element to divide your layout
162. ough the procedure below 1 Download the InterFormNG shell 7z file to a PC 2 Unzip the file with 7 zip You can download this application freeware from here http www 7 zip org 3 Now you need to copy the complete unzipped directory onto the AIX For that you can e g FTP it with FileZilla freeware Filezilla can be download from here http filezilla project org 4 Now we need to set the execute bit for the used files First change to the uploaded directory and the change the bit for the files we assume that you have uploaded to the interformng directory just replace this with the path you are using cd interformng chmod u x aix sh 5 Start designer if the AIX is not headless service and service web with these commands It is assumed that you are still in the right directory designer aix sh Start the service and then set the service log file for the output log service aix sh tail f user profiles default logs service log Start the web service and then set the service web log file for the output log After a few minutes you can check when no more data is added to the log file the web server should be running and you can access it via this link http logcalhost l9585 wobapp sptrirgnvo Localhost should of course be replaced with the IP address or name of the AIX server 6 Now we can do a small test to verify that the service is running by copying a demo xml file into the default xml inbox With
163. ows ConfigSetRoot FP_NO_HOST_C NO INTERFORMNG C InterFormNG_New NUMBER OF P 4 e J cmm Installing InterFormNG In order to install you first need to unzip the distribution file and then run the unzipped installation file Now you will see these screens Ell Setup InterFormNG Welcome to the InterFormNG Setup Wizard This will install InterFormNG version 2014 R03 on your computer It is recommended that you dose all other applications before continuing Click Mext to continue or Cancel to exit Setup Intelligent output management InterForm InterForm A S 13 You need to accept the agreement in order to be able to proceed EJ Setup InterFormNG License Agreement Please read the following important information before continuing Please read the following License Agreement You must accept the terms of this agreement before continuing with the installation BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING INTERFORM A S TERMS terForm A S Licensor USER LICENSE AGREEMENT ing the licensing of the Software InterFormNG and modules hereinafter eferred to as the Software tellectual property rights Licensor holds the copyright and all other intellectual property rights to the m I accept the agreement I do not accept the agreement TT If this is a first time installation no licence code is found then this screen is displayed 7 Setup InterFormNG Licence Information Who are
164. parator you can remove the commas with this expression translate string The result can then be used in numeric expressions The explaination of the above is that we concatenate the substrings consisting of 1 The part of the amount that is in front of the i e 408 in this case 2 The 3 Only the 2 first characters of the part of the amount that is after the i e 33 in this case making the final result 408 33 A more simple round of can also be done if you set the data type in the text element to numeric and then use this formula round 100 Data Header Type 5 div 6 div 100 The round function will round off to the nearest integer Remember that you can combine the XPath functions and that there are many other functions not mentioned here This appendix hopefully gives you an idea of how strong a tool this is You can e g refer to this link for additional information http www w3schools com xpath xpath functions asp Properties Description Variable Nome fiename sions Selection input Xpath Tet Xpath is a strong tool in itself but you can even use Selection input Xpath variables in your Xpath expressions The way it Select from document works is by referring to a variable as variable concat invoice text Root Document DocumentNo pd f Here is an exam p le InterForm A S 125 Here the value of variable filename is s
165. path command is concabt filet t0 Temp Product paf using the Product field from the XML file as a part of the dynamic file that we want to include If Element P 84 Manual for InterFormNG The If element executes a subtree only if a certain condition is met The properties are these Properties Left Right 10 is Comparison Datatype Text EE v Comparator w Scope control Keep styles So above you set the datatype select between Text Boolean Number or Date and set the comparator lt gt The keep styles option can make InterFormNG remember the styles after exiting the If subtree which is necessary if you want to use the IF function to conditionally set a style e g the locale style Both the left and right side of the comparison can be set like this Version 2014R09 Left Type Xpath Text Target Current node Context nodes Data Header TradingPartner Cursor reference name Mormalize So both the left and right side can be a constant value a value from the XML file found via Xpath a variable a function or a value from a translation table If you refer to XML you can also chose to refer to a special cursor pointing to a place in the XML file instead of the default cursor via Cursor reference name The IF includes an ELSE folder In case the condition in the IF is not true then all elements in the ELSE folder a
166. perties Missing resources Missing template Unset Missing font Unset w Missing image Unset Missing document Unset Invalid xpath Unset Illegal nested element Unset Element unreachable Invalid element Unset T Duplicate reference names Unset So set Element unreachable to Ignore and then you will not get the error above There are errors in the template When you save a template this window might pop up There are errors in the template i There is one or more errors in the template Do you want to save the template despite it contains errors By clicking OK you can chose to save the template in spite of any errors If you want to identify the exact errors then you can click this icon on the lower right of the designer to list all errors Then you can click each error in the list on the right to highlight the corresponding element in the list on the left Gal Page Gl Statics pi 3 xu Show errors 2 Show warnings 0 Show debug 10 Xpath Text Selection input Xpath dfgdgdrgdtfri 98 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Setting up InterFormNG for automatic conversions After you have setup one or many templates you can now setup InterFormNG to automatically convert new XML files into PDF You do that via Document Processor service Installing Uninstalling the Services If you have not installed the services during the insta
167. pts are not executables you need to add that chmod u x service linux sh service web linux sh Java is not standard in e g Ubuntu so you need to install it yourself sudo apt get install default jre Then you are finally ready to go First you start the service Jservice linux sh amp Then the service web is started Jservice web linux sh amp Wait a few minutes and then open a browser http localhost 1885 webapp springmvc Now you can start to configure the service as described in this manual When running the designer on Linux you might see a few issues When you first open a template or resource the folder might be empty If that is the case then just click cancel and try again The preview might return with the error rundll32 To make preview run under Linux you need to add a line to the client properties file inside user profiles default In the bottom of the file you will find this External programs for displaying PDF and PCL files PDFviewer rundl1132 url dll FileProtocolHandler Use default windows PDF application previewCommand usr bin evince absoluteFileName previewCommand zpl notepad absoluteFileName External programs for displaying HTML files HTMLviewer rundl1132 url dll FileProtocolHandler Use default windows HTML viewer The line to add is written in bold above InterForm A S 145 Installing on AIX To install InterFormNG on the AIX platform you should go thr
168. r contents and the specify one or multiple actions for the XML files fitting the condition In general the workflow settings overrules the meta data settings that you may have done in the used templates when activated You can setup the workflow via the InterFormNG web interface The workflow consists of 2 elements Template selections and Output configurations The Template selections sets the template and what kind of output you want and the output configurations are only needed if you want to override the printed output to a specific printer or specific printing features after running the template Enabling the Workflow In order to use the Workflow you should enable it It is a good idea first to setup the Workflow so that the service will run as before and then enable the WorkFlow The WorkFlow is enabled from the web interface by selecting System Configurations and General System Settings Home System Configurations Input Configurations amp Processing Output Configurations E Workflow Configurations f Actions Licensing e General System Settings Keep Ser Log Settings lt gt lt gt Keep Des User Configuration Default Ternace rreimmgyMain Entry itpl Enable Polling Yes m Polling Interval 2 Enable Trigger No Trigger Port 9999 S Language English b Jetty Port 8080 Y Keep Web Log days 30 lt Enable Workflow Yes Auto refresh Workflow Yes
169. r 200 or 300 for ZPL label printers By clicking on the icons on the left you can set a lot of other printer settings Documents Printer selection The printer can be selected directly in the used template by setting meta data key interform destination printer printerName selecting via the name via interform destination printer printerld via the printer ID which is found in the config xml document or better by setting the meta data key documentType in the template and linking the documentType with a printer here You get here by selecting Output Configurations Printer Configuration and the Documents tab in the top InterForm A S 35 Printers Documents General Settings Add Document Delete Document Filter T Name E x Sides Copies Media Size e jo y To Media Tray Chromaticity Orientation Finishings Name i Printer 9 Choose Script Value ZDesigner S4M 300dpi ZPL Y Activate 9 Choose Script Value Yes v For the document type you can set a single one with the value of if you want only to use one specific printer and then link this value with the printer in question Alternatively you can add various document types e g invoice and label and select that as the meta data documentType in the template Enable printing Before you can actual print you will need to enable printing This is done by selecting Output Configurations Printer Configuration and the Genera
170. rForm A S 117 Adding actions for the transformed files You can add actions for the transformed file s in one or two manners The easiest way is to add the same actions for all the transformed files Same action for all transformed files If you want to do the same action for all the files then you can simply add the actions inside the same rule in the workflow Conditions Transfom Actions Add Acton Remove Action Template Output Type example itpl archive Add Meta Value Remove Meta Value Key Value You can then let the template set the metadata to steer the actual output epending on the contents Here we set the output pdf file name to be the the text invoice followed by the invoicenumber from the XML file and ending with pdf 6 Settings H Import i Elements fe e Top 6 Page style Text style Source Sans Pro 11 0 Page H Statics interftorm plugin archiver fileName Thus creating 3 files invoice 101 pdf invoice102 pdf and invoice 103 pdf Different action for each transformed file If you instead want to execute different actions for each splitted file then you need to feed the transformed files back into the workflow processor That means that you need to remove any action for the workflow rule which transforms 118 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Name 4 101only Conditions
171. rd is not shown as readable text but is saved unencrypted in a configuration file Reply To The email address to reply to Active Set this to Yes to enable e mailing The rest of the fields are setup for the outgoing e mail server Above the settings for gmail are used You should check with the administrator of your email server to find the settings that you should use Generally used port numbers are 25 465 and 578 InterForm A S 37 Port 25 is normally not using SSL so for that you should try with these settings Protocol smtp Use SSL No Hidden gems When a program tries to send mail it sends the command EHLO followed by its hostname In some cases it only sends the hostname but the mail server expect a fully qualified domain name FQDN If my PC is named Egon PC and is on the domain interform400 com it should send the following command EHLO Egon Pc interform400 com But it only sends EHLO Egon Pc To force it to send the FQDN you can add the line email smtp localhost Egon Pc interform400 com to the plugin properties file in the directory INTERFORMNG_HOME nterFormNG profiles default plugins email manager conf And restart the service To see what is sent to from the mail server you can turn debugging on by adding this line to the plugin properties file as well email debug true You also have to add the startparameter log4j to the service InterFormNG Document Processing Service Properties Lo
172. rd size Custom size Left Standard size Right A4 x Top Orientation Bottom 1 Unset Portrait Landscape Paper Type This selects the paper type to use when printing in PCL You can use this to select the drawer or tray from which the paper should be taken You need to select the equivalent paper type on the printer you intend to print out on The paper type is language independent so you need to select the similar type of paper on the printer menu in your own language if the printer menu is not in english Under Flow settings you can set the bottom margin for any flow area within the page element This margin will be added to the bottom padding of the flow area InterForm A S 67 Label Style The label style sets the way you want to place labels on the resulting page You can decide to put multiple labels on one page The properties are these Properties Size Width Height Margin left right top bottom Spacing Vertical Horizontal Other settings Rotation anticlockwise Unset Paint border Unset Off On Width The width of one label State this in inches as pels as all the other measurements Height The height of the label Margin The margins for the page This is the empty space that is reserved around the edge of the output page not be used for labels Spacing The free space between the labels measured also in inches and pels Border You can chose to print li
173. re actions but we will come back to that later When adding a Rule you are prompted for a name After entering the name you can on the right specify the condition for the XML file selection The condition can be built up with these Condition You can combine conditions with either AND or OR for this The first line for a rule should be blank Type This is the type of condition you want to use Possible values are XPATH DIR FILENAME METADATA 110 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Use this to condition the rule on the contents of the XML file Via the Xpath language you extract information from the Select the rule by comparing the directory where the XML file is found If you set the operator to EQUALS then the full path must be specified e g like C XML inbox processing lf you state LIKE then you should specify a unique directory in the path without any Y e g XML inbox The file name of the XML file can be used for conditioning the rule W hen calling InterFormNG either via the database plugin or via a socket call you can set one or more metadata keys With this you can condition the rule on these metadata keys Specification If you select XPATH for the type above then you should insert the Xpath expression here For other types this should not be used Operator Possible values are LIKE Here you can use a compare text as the value using various special conditions for the comparison se V
174. re executed Below we output a text constant depending on if the condition is true or not 6 Page style 6 Text style Source Sans Pro 11 0 amp Page a Statics J Pre J Post e 6 Top 6 Text C To be executed if true amp 3 Else 6 Top Text C To be executed if not true InterForm A S 85 ForEach Element The ForEach element tells InterFormNG to run a DO loop for all branches in the E XML file with a specific name With the ForEach Element you can e g do a loop for all detail lines in the XML file The properties are these zpath bata Body Label Cursor reference name Scope control keep styles The Xpath is the path to the branches that are to be handled This is relative to the default cursor alternatively it can be relative to another cursor just state it under Cursor reference name Finally you can with the scope control Keep styles tell InterFormNG to remember any styles defined in ForEach subtree Repeat Element Use the repeat element to execute a subtree a specific number of times The M number to run can be set as seen below E Data B xmins xsi http veveviw3 org 20 Header Type VDA4902 6 Subtype A5 TradingPartner PORSCHE Data Header AccountingEntity FormType STANDARD 6 User wernert B AccountingEntity 3 Cursor name Target Current node Context nodes Selection result Normalize Deco
175. reviewing the result of a merge between the XML file and the default template The socket call is described on page 140 Below the combination of option 1 and option 4 is described in details In order to use the service you simply move or copy the XML files onto the xml inbox as configured above If the service ist started it will automatically convert the file and either print create a pdf file or email depending on the configuration and the meta data setup in the template When the incoming XML files are processed they will be moved First they are moved to the subdirectory called Processing and after processing the files will be moved to either the Processed or Errors subdirectory depending on if the merge when OK or not Setting up automatic printing When a PDF document has been produced InterformNG allows the document to be printed on any printer that supports PostScript or PCL5 printing Label printing on ZPLII compatible printers normally Zebra printers is also supported The meta data key called mediaType should be set to print in the used template in order to enable printing and you should normally select the printer by stating a documentType meta data in the template and linking the documentType meta data with a printer in the server configuration All meta data keys are listed below Refer to page 35 for the printer setup of the server InterForm A S 101 Setting up automatic PDF creation
176. ributes of the line element is set via the Geometry style The example below creates a vertical line which is 2 inches from the left edge of the paper It starts line 1 inch from the top and ends 3 inches from the top measurements are here in inches and pels From 1 120 2 000 Ta 3 000 2 000 The settings of the line as well as for the box element are defined in the geometry style as described on page 64 Box Element The box element inserts a box or frame in the output The coordinates and the other settings are set exactly like for the line element above Barcode Element IIl The barcode element works exactly like the text element above Properties Advanced settings Description Position Top 1 Left 1 Use offset variable Barcode type Type Select Selection input Constant Text Selection input constant Compared to the text element there are only 2 differences 1 The barcode attributes are set via the barcode style refer to details on page 64 2 The barcode type field can be used for selecting a specific barcode type If this is Select like above then the barcode type selected in the last barcode style is used or a code39 barcode if no barcode style was found Refer to the description of the text element above for additional details 76 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Image Element Inserts an image The image should fir
177. rintConfig xml file and change the last lines so that you select the printer number that you want to use e g printer lt documenttTypes gt lt documenttype name gt print lt value gt true lt value gt lt prin lt printer gt lt value gt printerl lt value gt e primrter interactive lt value gt false lt value gt lt interactive gt lt documenttype gt lt documentTypes gt Selecting the printer via XML The actual printer used for printing out is selected via the basic printmanager plugin The basic printmanager plugin reads configuration data from a file called printConfig xml stored in the plugin s conf directory the path is defined during install as described on page 15 If this file is not available it is created automatically by the plugin and initialized with default values that will ensure that documents are printed on the default printer connected to the current computer and an interactive dialog similar to the print dialog found in windows applications is shown to the user just before printing the document Structure of printConfig xml The XML configuration file has the following general structure lt printConfig gt printerTypes 128 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 lt printerT ypes gt lt printers gt lt printers gt lt documentT ypes gt lt documentl ypes gt lt printConfig gt For a good example of some of the attributes available you can e g run th
178. rm metadata otherKey other value DWprrnbtlm 0tt pwocprintomctexml 53 pw flush Tell the service that we are done VERY IMPORTANT socket shutdownOutput Read results System out println Reading response BufferedReader br new BufferedReader new InputStreamReader socket getInputStream String line br readLine while line null System out println line line br readLine br close Although the example is small it does illustrate a few key points First of all it shows how to send metadata along with your request and secondly it demonstrates how to properly close the output stream before waiting for input It is important that you use the shutdownOutput method on the socket rather than calling close on the output stream Otherwise the socket itself will be closed and you will not be able to receive a response Plugin configuration The network printjob accepts TCP connections on a port which by default is 9091 If you wish to change this port number you may do so by editing the file lt plugin home directory gt network printjob conf plugin properties for the network printjob plugin For example the following configuration will change the port number to 7777 network printjob portNumber 7777 Note that the InterFormNG service must be restarted in order for this change to take effect InterForm A S 141 A Groovy web server example The Groovy example below shows how to define a w
179. rmNG then click Next Additional icons Create a desktop icon Create a Quick Launch icon 16 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 The final screen shows you all the settings for the installation E Setup InterFormNG Ready to Install Setup is now ready to begin installing InterFormNG on your computer Click Install to continue with the installation or click Back if you want to review or change any settings Destination location C Program Files InterFormNG Start Menu folder InterFormNG Additional tasks Additional icons Create a desktop icon Now click Install to start the installation After the installation the screen below is shown if the installation was actually an upgrade from a 2013 version or earlier B Setup InterFormNG Completing the InterFormNG Setup Wizard Setup has finished installing InterFormNG on your computer The application may be launched by selecting the installed icons Click Finish to exit Setup Run TemplateConverter Lets you convert existing templates to newer versions Intelligent output management InterForm Unless you disable the Run TemplateConverter option then the convert tool will now start InterForm A S 17 The license code The Trail Licence When you install and start InterFormNG for the first time you can register and get a 7 day trial licence which you can request during the installation A trial licence has all features e
180. rnate On the third tab Hibernate Configuration you can change the way the database table s is mapped to InterFormNG data Enter the following xml versionz 1 0 IDOCTYPE hibernate mapping PUBLIC Hibernate Hibernate Mapping DTD 3 0 EN http hibernate sourceforge net hibernate mapping 3 0 dtd lt hibernate mapping package com interform400 xml plugin db model gt lt class name Job table JOB gt id name id column C_PERSIST_ID gt lt generator class native gt lt id gt lt property name processingStatus column C_ WAS PROCESSED gt lt property name createdDate column C CREATED DATE TIME gt property name xmlData column z C XML not null true type com interform400 xml plugin db hibernate BlobUserT ype update false gt lt class gt query name Job findUnprocessedJobs gt lt CDATA from Job job where job processingStatus 0 order by createdDate id l query lt hibernate mapping gt Testing If the database server is running we are now ready to go Save you changes and re start service linux sh Open a terminal and start a mysql session InterForm A S 149 mysql u root p show databases use interformDatabase show tables Tables in interformDatabase an ee miUe SGH AURI UDINE 3j job describe job
181. s Size Description File InterForm Loao jpg Resource name logo Now the properties window in the bottom is opened and you can open an image file with the open icon You also state a name for the image which you can refer to in the template design later Setting the image size You set the size of the image under the Size tab Resolution Measure Aspect ratio Keep set width Measure Width 2 54 Here you can set either a resolution or a fixed size Measure If you select Resolution then the image size will depend on the resolution selected The higher resolution you select the smaller the image will be The reason is that the image is a certain number of dots in height and width The resolution is set as a number of dots per inch DPI so if you set a large DPI then each dot will take up a very small space and the image will be small When selecting the measure you can set the size of the image via the Aspect ratio The aspect ratio can be set to these values The measurement used is the measure that you have chosen under Setup and Measure Keep set width Sets the width below The height is adjusted to keep the ratio between height and width Keep set height Sets the height below The width is adjusted to keep the ratio between height and width Do not keep If you select this you will need to set both the width and the height of the image 52 Manual for InterFormNG Version 20
182. s Digital IDs for Secure Email NEXT STEPS Symantec Digital IDs for Secure Email Symantec Digital IDs for Secure Email allow you to digitally sign and encrypt your digital communications using alma o You now type in your email address and select 25 days free unless you want to buy V Symantec Digital ID for Secure Email s nd click Next Step 1 Certificate data Certificate data Enter the email address and validity period for this Digital ID for Secure Email Email address my_email my_domail com e g webmaster stonehillbaker com Validity period amp 25 days free 1 year 22 95 After accepting conditions you will now receive 2 emails One with a link and another with a password After signing on you can install the certificate in your browser e g MS Internet Explorer InterForm A S 157 From the browser you now need to export the certificate as a pkcs12 file including the private key That is in MS Internet Explorer done by selecting Tools Internet options and the Content tab and finally the Certificates icon Control the Internet content that can be viewed Content Advisor Ratings help you control the Internet content that can be viewed on this computer Bi Enable Hp Settings Certificates re Use certificates for encrypted connections and identification Cerfcates AutoComplete AutoComplete stores previous entries on webpages and sugge
183. s available zpl targetResolution In order to render elements at the correct sizes and positions the plugin needs to know what the final resolution of your ZPL printer is Typical values are For printers using a 6 dot mm printhead the dots per inch of printer value is 152 4 For printers using a 8 dot mm printhead the dots per inch of printer value is 203 2 For printers using a 12 dot mm printhead the dots per inch of printer value is 304 8 For printers using a 24 dot mm printhead the dots per inch of printer value is 609 6 Please refer to the documentation that came with your Zebra printer for information on what the resolution for your specific printer is InterForm A S 139 Appendix C Socket based XML processing The InterFormNG service provides several ways for XML to enter the system for processing A database may be queried periodically a directory may be scanned and as a recent addition a client may connect directly to the service process and send XML over a socket for processing This functionality is implemented by a plugin called network printjob This document provides documentation on the expected input format the format of the processing receipt as well as a simple example program that posts a processing request to the service and prints the results to the console Input format A request to process XML is similar to a HTTP POST request It is structured as a series key value pairs followed by a message
184. s of the element It can be one of the below Normalize Decode A constant text Simply type the text to be inserted Xpath A text value from the XML file is inserted in the output If you select the Xpath option you will be asked to specify the XML value via Xpath the path in the XML file and a cursor reference name The Xpath defines the path from the referenced cursor or if this field is blank The path from the default cursor The cursor is a pointer pointing to the place in the XML file that is currently worked on InterForm A S 71 If you want to refer to the value of a variable in an Xpath expression you state it like this variable This will be substituted before the Xpath expression is calculated Below the cursor is set via a previous For Each element which has set the cursor to the Label branch This is the XML tree E XML Documents ee Example Label 45 Porsche xml Label E Receiver E ReceiverLine Dr Ing h c F Porsche AG 6 gsequence 1 Below the text Dr Ing h c F Porsche AG in the output by referring to the xml contents Layout settings Top 1 Left 1 Use offset variable Selection input Xpath Text Selection input Xpath Select from document Receiver ReceiverLine sequence 1 The Xpath expression refers to Receiver ReceiverLine inside the Label node The sequence 1 tells InterFormNG to only sel
185. s tab of the text element Rotation The rotation of the text element Possible rotations are None 90 180 and 270 degrees Frame width This is the width of text If you leave it blank then the width of the text is undefined i e it will be as long as needed With a value below you can chose to set either a fixed or a maximum width Fixed width If you set the width value to be a fixed width then the width of the text will be exactly as wide as the size set below If you use the text inside a flow area then you can use a fixed width to set columns for some detail lines if you set the bounds overflow on the text style to either cut or break If you want to align the text inside the designated frame then you need to use the Width adjustment option of the text style Maximum width The maximum width allowed of the text element This option also works closely with the Bound overflow option of the text style Refer to the text style on page 58 for details Selection input In the bottom you set the width of the text counted as pels 240 pels equals 1 inch which is 2 54 cm Remember to set this to be a number The size above of 200 pels equals 0 83 inches or 2 12 cm 2 54 200 240 InterForm A S 73 You need to remember to set the type to number instead of the default text If you forget then this width setting is ignored Index Settings Index label In the bottom of the advanced tab of the text eleme
186. se Min and max values are converted into one value for the module width and module ratio The new values represents the same outcome as the original set of min and max Barcode styles where the type is Unset are ignored in the 2014 versions until you set a specific barcode type e The ratio was previously specified in 1 1000 or promille During conversion it is converted into the real ratio between the wide and narrow lines typically a value around 2 to 3 In the 2014 versions you specify this real ratio e The properties of a barcode style now adapts to the specific barcode type you select Previously all properties where displayed for all types This change makes it easier to define barcodes as only the relevant properties are shown The error correction for QR and PDF417 barcodes was previously not implemented and thus ignored Now the value is used and may result in a different size of the 2D barcode in PDF PCL and postscript e The resulting size of the barcode may change slightly when you compare the postscript PCL output with the result prior to the upgrade e As checksum you could previously select the value Auto This value was not fully implemented and the support for this value has been removed Any template using Auto will fail with an error in the 2014 versions The barcode style is described in dept on page 64 Testing templates when upgrading to a 2014 Version or newer After an upgrade of
187. se values print Prints the result on a printer email Emails the pdf file that is the result of the merge with the template archive Archives the result as a PDF file If you want multiple outputs you can assign multiple values separated with a comma like this Import elements Layout elements Import elements Layout elements WF NUMLAULS LUPPLEN C8OoLED SPLNIEU y xor ET TTT Metadata subject B 6 Metadata subject s 6 Metadata attachment name 6 Metadata attachment name l If DK z If DK z 6 Metadata mediaType from XML file 6 Metadata mediaType from XML file 6 Metadata mediaType archive email 6 RENERE E n E ET 6 Metadata receiver fullname Metadata receiver fullname 6 Metadata email to E 6 Metadata email to i Selection input constant mediaType archive email In this case the XML file will be merged with the template and saved as a PDF file and after that it will also be emailed multiup Possible values are true and false False is default If you want to place multiple forms or pages on a single page of output often also referrred to as N up Multi up or pages per side you should normally use the label feature of the template as described on page 78 InterForm A S 103 Prerequisites The multi up feature has been built especially for the PCL output Currently it also works for PDF and ZPL output but the
188. signer As the next thing you select the text style E NEW TEMPLATE InterFormNG Desigr Font Family Arial r Size 12 0 Bold Unset Off On Italic Unset Off On Underline g Unset j Off j On Now you should add a page style to let InterFormNG know how the format size of the output Select this Ej NEW TEMPLATE InterFormNG Desig a File Edit Setup View Help imu Lom a d SETG z8 Settings H E Import El Elements t2 Text style and specify the paper size to use Now add a Page element within which you should insert your design Settings elements Import El Elements gt e Top 6 Textstyl InterForm A S 43 Then click the Statics folder inside the Page element and insert a Text element X ml 6 eee x m Selection input Constant Text Selection input constant Hello World then click in the result window to tell the designer where to place this text in the output If you also want to output data from your XML file you should first display the XML file in the designer You can e g do that by selecting this in the top E Hello World itpl kse 09 08 2012 09 39 56 InterFormNG Designer 2011 5 3 SNAPSHOT File Edit Setup View Help Seals ieee DHH 7 e Elements 7 amp Place windows manually i 6 Top
189. st be imported as described on page 52 You set the reference point or alignment in the Image style as shown on page 66 The image element simply states the image and where to put tt Properties Position Top 6 10 Left 6 68 Use offset variable Image Reference InterForm Logo The reference is a drop down list of all images that have been imported into this template If you have just imported the image you might need to save close and reopen the template before the new image will fully work Please notice that the print style should be set correctly to get the best result when printing Refer to page 69 for details for this The size of the image is set during import Refer to page 52 for details If you click the Url settings tab you will see this Selection input Constant Text v Selection input constant www intertorm4 00 com With this you can link the image with a url The url does not need to be a constant but can be a variable or e g even an xpath expression which e g selects information from the input XML file s Page Element Li When you insert the page element a new tree in the layout window is inserted This is where the contents of the page is defined You insert this to let InterFormNG know that a new page is to be inserted in the output Unless you only want to export a group you should normally only insert design elements within a Page element Styles including a page style c
190. sts matches for you Feeds and Web Slices f Feeds and Web Slices provide updated E content from websites that can be read in Internet Explorer and other programs E Now mark the certificate in question and click Export Persona Not Validat Symantec Class 1Indi 9 25 2013 E E Certificate intended purposes Secure Email Client Authentication Learn more about certificates 158 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Now remember to export the private key You can choose to export the private key with the certificate Private keys are password protected If you want to export the private key with the certificate you must type a password on a later page Do you want to export the private key with the certificate Yes export the private key No do not export the private key Do not activate any of the extra settings here Certificate Export Wizard E O Export File Format Certificates can be exported in a variety of file formats Select the format you want to use DER encoded binary X 509 CER Base 64 encoded X 509 CER Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard PKCS 7 Certificates P7B _ Indude all certificates in the certification path if possible Personal Information Exchange PKCS 12 PFX Z Indude all certificates in the certification path if possible Delete the private key if the export is successful E Export all extended properties
191. sub string after date substring before substring after date su bstring 0 1 2 string length s ubstring before date substring before date aias concat 20 substring after s ubstring after date substring 0 1 2 string length substring before date substring before Q date substring 0 1 2 string length substring before substring after dat e substring before substring after date iD concat substring 0 1 2 strin g length substring before su bstring after date substring before substrin g after date substring 0 1 2 string lengt h substring before date substring before da tey 20 substring afte r substring after date deg concat substring 0 1 2 strin g length substring before date substring befor e date substring 0 1 2 string length substrin g before substring after date substring bef ore substring after date 20 substring aft er substring after date concat substring after substri ng after date substring 0 1 2 string lengt h substring before substring after date sub string before substring after Q date substrin g 0 1 2 strin
192. t contains a barcode style The schema http interform400 com xml schemas 2013 01 01 indicates the new layout Unableto open template Hello World 2013M522 itpl reason Unable to load template reason unexpected element uri http interform400 com xml schemas 2013 01 01 local template Expected elements are lt http interform400 com xml schemas 2010 01 01 template gt lt http interform4 00 com xml schemas 2010 01 01 templateElementList gt This indicates that the template was created for a newer version and that the barcode styles are not supported in the current pre 2014 version Using unconverted templates Each time you open a template created in a pre 2014 version the template will be converted into the 2014 format If you open and save a template in the designer then it will be saved in the converted format Any barcode style in the template will prevent it from being opened used in a pre 2014 version Please notice that any imported referenced template are not updated and saved when you open the main template they are only temporarily converted for the current job Any referenced template also used by the processor service will temporarily be converted at runtime each time when used So until you have converted all your templates you may experience lower performance in the designer and the processor service InterForm A S 167 Appendix I Using a Message Queue for input O
193. t the element type by clicking on it with the left mouse key and then click in the result window to state where in output the element is to be inserted Then the element is added to the element list Notice that there is not yet a drag and drop graphical designer so you need to type in the measurements for positioning by hand You can however preview the result at any time by clicking the rightmost icon in the upper part of the screen ae or by looking in the result window as explained below Also notice that all measurements are in inches and pels separated by a comma 1 inch equals 240 pels so this means that e g 1 120 is the same as one and a half inch You can change the measurement into either normal inches without pels or centimeters as described on page 21 WARNING amp Changing the templates by other means than the InterFormNG designer is unsupported at Viewing Input and or Result window Via this drop down menu you can select if you want to view the input XML file and or the final result in the right part of the screen fg demo order_PSitpl InterFormNG Designer 1 7 0 SNAPSHOT Home CAlnterFormNG File Edit Setup Display Help Aga is 4 fe 5 e E Ae A LT Import elements Layoutelements e a Ww Locale style EN Place windows vertically PA 76 Metadata mail template name x EQ X 6 Metadata subject us 6 Metadata attachment name z If you e g chose Place windows v
194. t these files to PDF Render GS1 Databar family barcodes Render XML documents into PDF format Render standard barcode types Transform ZPL script into readable PDF using an actual Zebra printer as a rendering engine Container for the administration web application Render XML documents into ZPL Zebra format Modules for InterFormNG InterFormNG is delivered with a lot of functionality but for those that want more we also offer some modules to enhance the product even more The PDF Security Module If you purchase this module you can both encrypt and password protect the output PDF files limit the access to prevent users from printing editing or copying the PDF contents and digitally sign the output PDF files This new module is described in Appendix G on page 156 The TxtToXML Module Apart from the core of InterFormNG it is also possible to purchase the TxtToXML module The module makes it possible to use text files e g csv files as input in InterFormNG They are then converted into XML before they are processed Refer to Appendix F on page 154 for additional information The JD Edwards Connector Module Creates XML files from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Based on UBE Universal Batch Engine and handles standard and customized reports Please contact your local InterFormNG support for more information Configuring InterFormNG After installing InterFormNG you should now start InterFormNG and configure a few things Set the l
195. te 4 2 eh after date su Pating 19 gale se bs tingi bstring 0 1 2 string length s 6 2 Q date 1 2 ES ubstring before Q date substring before date at For the dates these tricks are used 1 For the formulas above date indicates a variable date containing the date You should replace this with the XML node or your variable 2 The concat function concatenates puts together multiple string into one 3 The substring string start length function returns a part of the string starting at position start and with the length of length 4 The function substring before string search string searches for the search string in string and returns the part of string that is to the left of the search string 5 The function substring before string search string searches for the search string in string and returns the part of string that is to the left of the search string 6 string length string returns the length of a string 7 For the cells above marked with Use date format you can get to the output format by selecting the date format function and use the date format ask in the leftmost cell in the same row InterForm A S 63 Geometry style The geometry style sets attributes of subsequent lines and boxes The properties are these Properties 1D Stroke width Box corner rounding circle radius Upper left nn
196. te can be used by any version of InterFormNG 2 The template can only be used by 2014 versions and newer Blank The template has not been converted 166 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Designer Version This is the indicator if a template has been converted and if so To which level it has been converted Blank The template has not been converted 2 The template has been converted into level 2 itis compliant with the 2014 versions Status The status of each template The status can be Up to date The template has previously been converted OK Convert The template has not been converted yet Converted The template has just been converted Error Potential error during conversion WARNING 6 If you open a template in an older version of the designer and the template was created edited in an newer version of the designer and the template is using newer functionality not i implemented in the older version then any references to the newer functionality may forgotten when the template is opened and saved in the old designer Click the Convert Selected icon to start the conversion The original unconverted templates are stored in a zip file in INTERFORMNG_HOME resources template named Convert yyyyMMdd HHmmss zip Problem when opening templates in pre 2014 Versions If you try to open a template in a pre 2014 version which has been converted in a 2014 version or newer then you will get this error message if i
197. template so that the path written in this meta data key is the path within the target folder specified here You could think of the target folder as the root folder for the pdf archive generator Active You need to set this to Yes to enable the possibility to create PDF files Email Configuration By selecting Output Configurations and then E mail Configuration you reach this screen General Settings Bcc Default Subject InterFormNG notification Default Template default template rtf Disable Attachment No From kse interform400 com Host Name smtp gmail com Password a ee E Port 465 Protocol smtps Reply To Use Starttls Yes Authenticate Yes Use SSL Yes Username inter formng gmail com Active Yes The fields sets this BCC A BCC receiver Default subject The subject of the outgoing e mail This can be overridden in the used template by setting a value for the meta data key email subject Default Template This refers to an e mail template an rtf or html file setting the contents of the e mail You can overridde this choice in the form template via the meta data key email templateName and here state a different file email template Disable attachment Normally the email will be sent out with a pdf file containing the result of the merge between a template and the XML file This attachment can be disabled with this From The e mail address specified as the sender Password Notice that the passwo
198. the include element could look like this Properties ID Template Company setup Element Company styles v Scope control Keep styles In the example we activate Keep styles so that the styles are available outside the included group This way of including another template can be used with the main template which you specify for the processor This template can e g inspect the contents of the incoming XML file and include the right template depending on the contents found Use the error style to ignore any invalid xpath expressions to avoid an error for other XML files without the same node s InterForm A S 51 Importing a new image Images are installed simular to fonts You copy the BMP JPG JPEG PNG image s to the resources image directory within the home directory the default path is C Documents and Settings All Users VApplication Data InterFormNG resources image 6 WARNING amp Currently PNG files are only supported for PDF output After copying the image you can refer to the image in the designer in this manner Open the Import tab and the yellow Images folder click on Top inside and press this icon lt Ea Training Training_IF400_invoice ttp kse 25 11 2011 17 16 34 Revision 1 0 File Edit Setup View Help me pil Se iGr eal 7 6 Settings EP XML documents 3 HR Templates EFI Resources PF Top Propertie
199. tion Home s System Configurations 7 Input Configurations a5 Processing Output Configurations el L Workflow Configurations f Actions Templates Selection AddRule RemoveRule EditRule Copy Rule Conditions Actions Name Add Action Remove Action DL 5 rem Training Main Entry itpl archive Add Meta Value Remove Meta Value Key Value interform plugin archiver fileNamel v MyFile pdf interform plugin archiver folderName interform plugin archiver fleName The drop down list of keys will adapt to whatever you have setup for the output type above Above we have selected achive for creating PDF files thus the meta data keys listed are the ones interesting if you want to create PDF files If you want to insert a meta data key not listed 112 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 you can still just type in key In the example above we have specified the output file name to be MyFile pdf Working with Output Configurations You can chose to redirect the printed output after the XML file has been processed This functionality has been added to offer the maximum flexibility to those users what are not working from a fixed location so that they would like to select different printers depending on where they are currently working Normally you would e g let the template select the output printer but with an output configuration you can override that selection if a certain condition is met and
200. tionFactory import org apache camel CamelContext import org apache camel ProducerTemplate import org apache camel component jms JmsComponent import org apache camel impl DefaultCamelContext InterForm A S 169 public class MQDemo public static void main String args throws Exception String Url tcp localhost 61616 ActiveMQConnectionFactory connectionFactory new ActiveMQConnectionFactory url CamelContext context new DefaultCamelContext context addComponent jms JmsComponent jmsComponentAutoAcknowledge connectionFactory ProducerTemplate producer context createProducerTemplate String endpoint jms queue interform xmlProcessingRequestQueue jmsKeyFormatStrategy pas sthrough String body lt xml gt or get input data from an XML file Map lt String Object gt headers new HashMap lt String Object gt 4 4 4 put x interform metadata mediaType archive J archive email or print put x interform metadata documentType postscript all the usual metadata for archive email and print put x interform metadata com interform400 xml Template Pangrams itpl which template to use put x interform metadata xmlFromSocket XML FROM SOCKET Skip final step only create artifact but don t save mail or print put x interform metadata interform printjob processingpriority A ii s 0 Immediate 1 Normal 2 Batch put x
201. trigger e g every 5 seconds With this you can gradually convert a polling setup into a setup using triggers by enabling this until you have fully implemented the trigger functionality 32 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 General Settings Active Yes Interval 5 Interval sets the number of seconds between each activation of the trigger Socket Trigger Configuration You can use the socket call to issue a time critical conversion in InterFormNG You can e g a URL back linking to the resulting PDF file You setup various properties in the Network Configuration above and you enable the socket function here Active Yes The socket trigger is described in Appendix C on page 140 Processing InterFormNG is able to generate multiple types of output You can setup the properties for each under Processing in the web interface p Home System Configurations Input Configurations 5 Processing Output Configuratior Eu Transform ZPL to PDF Configuration IM G51 Databar Configuration I Standard Barcode Configuration Image Import Configuration PCL Configuration PDF Configuration ZPL Configuration Below each of the configurations are described Transform ZPL to PDF Configuration When designing a template for ZPL output you can view the output in the Result window but if you want to see exactly how the final result would look then you can setup InterFormNG to use a physical printer to generate an
202. tring data like this substring Data Header Type 2 3 The first parameter of the substring command is the string that should be subset the second is the start position and the third is the length so if Data Header Type contains the string VDA490 2 the result will be DAA Other string functions are substring before expression1 expression2 substring after expression1 expression2 replace expression1 expression2 expression3 substring before searches for the text expression2 inside expression and returns the part of expression1 that precedes the found position This formular returns a c substring before c dir substring after searches for the text expression2 inside expression1 and returns the part of the expression1 that follows the found position This returns dir substring before c dir replace replace any occurrence of expression 2 in expression with expression3 So the expression replace abc def 123 will result in the string abc123def translate The function translate is able to translate a character with another It will search the first string for any character in the second string and if found it will use the same number in the list from the third string instead This will e g replace any comma with a dot in the variable in translate in a cd SZ 93 124 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 If the third string is empty the character will be replaced
203. try you would like the mail to use The plugin uses this value to select a country specific template Example aaland for a Swedish variant used in Finland email subject Allows you to specify which subject the e mail should have email from Allows you to specify which sender the e mail should appear to come from Print metadata These are the print metadata available interform destination printer printerName Force a named printer to be used Normally print is sent to a printer according to the rules defined in printConfig xml which is a configuration file belonging to the print manager plugin Following these rules a printer is selected based on what document type is being printed However it may be that in some cases a template designer wants to force the print to go to a specific named printer regardless of any rules defined other places Note To avoid having to modify the template when the name of a printer changes we recommend using the metadata key interform destination printer printerld in stead interform destination printer interactive Possible values true false Display an interactive print dialog prior to printing a document If the end user needs to be able to manually modify print attributes a dialog similar to the one found in typical word processors may be displayed to the user allowing any value to be changed Note that when InterformNG runs as a service it is undesirable to enable interactive mode since the ru
204. tup can be done either via editing the setup files via e g Notepad or via the InterFormNG web interface The setup file for the service is stored as InterFormNG profiles default application properties within the configuration directory The setup files for the plugins are stored in the configuration directory under InterFormNG profiles default plugins Remember to always restart the processor service to activate any changes of the configuration The only area where this is not needed is for the workflow if you have activated the Auto refresh Workflow option Below we will use the web interface to edit the configuration when possible Configuring via the web interface You can use the web interface to setup the plugins You can start it in Windows by selecting Start All programs InterFormNG and InterFormNG web admin A browser session will open and you will be asked for a User and Password For the user you can state user or admin and you should state password as the password Please notice that the password is case sensitive If you logon as user you can only view the settings as admin you can also edit the settings InterForm New Generation a Home System Configurations 7 Input Configurations Ss Processing Output Configurations adl Workflow Configurations f Actions InterForm Changing the web interface port number As default the web service will us
205. u have these icons A Press this icon to move the marked element upwards in the list Y Press this icon to move the marked element downwards in the list 2 Deletes the marked design element You can also just mark an element and press the Delete key On the top of the screen these icons can be found 3 Press this icon to create a new template Opens an existing template for editing ly Saves the current template Closes the opened template Click this icon on the upper right to preview the resulting design in PDF You can also use the normal clipboard option cut copy paste to change the elements as well as undo and redo the last changes All elements are placed between Top and Bottom Activate the position between Top and Bottom where you want to insert the element The new element will be placed after this position 92 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Design examples and tips When you design your templates it is very often worth while to really consider the structure of the template that you are designing Before you design anything you should consider the tips below Reuse groups Are there any groups in existing templates that could be reused in this template If yes you should of course make them available by exporting them in the other template and import them in the current template You do that by first giving the group an export name in the other templat
206. u might want to refer to external resources This can be fonts templates images or translation tables You need to import them first before they can be used in the template design Importing a new font If you want to install a new font to be used in InterFormNG then you first need to copy the True Type Font file TTF onto the font directory inside the configuration directory The configuration directory is defined during the installation as shown on page 15 and is default C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data lnterF orm NG Within the configuration directory you find the font directory here resources font so this is the complete default path C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data InterFormNG resources font After copying the TTF file here the font is available for selection in the designer You just need to restart the designer if it is already running Before you copy any TTF file you should make sure that you are not violating any copyrights Please notice that font styles like italic and bold are only supported as real fonts Other systems calculate italic and bold and in this case output may look different on different renderers We have decided to support only real fonts to be sure printers will display output 100 accurate So you will need to install both the bold and the italic versions of the font if you want to use them as well 46 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Importing XML f
207. uage country variant rtf You can even define your own meta data keys in the template and let the email template rtf or html file refer to the meta data in this manner In the rtf or html email template Dear Q receiver fullname According to our agreement we now forward you a test email This is variable1 from the template Q variable E mailed from InterFormNG Best regards Peter S rensen InterForm A S Notice the bold text above where we refer to the meta data key variable1 which is defined like this in the template Key value Description variablel The final email contain this 102 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Dear Kim Egekjaer According to our agreement we now forward you a test email This is variable1 from the template Text1 E mailed from InterFormNG Best regards Peter S rensen InterForm A S The email templates must be stored in INTERFORMNG HOMEJ resources mail template or a subdirectory inside this Selecting the output via metadata You can let the template use information from the XML file to set the actual output e g depending on the contents of the XML file The metadata element looks like this Refer to page 89 for additional information The most important metadata fields are these General metadata These are the metadata that can be generally used for all outputs mediaType This metadata determines the output that is wanted It can be set to the
208. ument s with two staples wire stitches along the bottom edge assuming a portrait document Chromaticity An enumeration that specifies monochrome or color printing This may be used to instruct the printer to output monochrome grey scale print even if the document was originally produced in color Supported values are color Color printing monochrome Monochrome printing Attribute Description Examples of values 134 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Orientation Supported values are landscape The content will be imaged across the long edge of the medium portrait The content will be imaged across the short edge of the medium reverse landscape The content will be imaged across the long edge of the medium but in the opposite manner from landscape reverse portrait The content will be imaged across the short edge of the medium but in the opposite manner from portrait MediaTray An enumeration that specifies the media tray or bin to use for this print The list of formally supported values is shown below Note that the target printer may contain paper trays not listed below or offer an Automatic setting Some printers support trays with custom names You can specify any value that the printer understands bottom The bottom input tray in the printer envelope The envelope input tray in the printer large capacity The large capacity input tray in the printer main The main input tray in the print
209. v In the bottom of the screen you can enable the Workflow and enable Auto refresh for the Workflow If Auto refresh is enabled you will not need to restart the InterFormNG Processing service to put workflow changes into production Remember to restart the processor service after enabling disabling the workflow as shown on page 100 InterForm A S 109 Working with Template Selections Select Workflow configurations and Template Selections in the top to see all the rules InterForm New Generation Templates Selection Add Rule Remove Rule EditRule Copy Rule Name re Home s System Configurations Input Configurations 4 Processing Output Configurations 81 Workflow Configurations f Actions F Y Template Selections Conditions Actions 1 output Configurations Add Condition Remove Condition All Generate PDF file Condition Type Specification Operator Value XPATH If LIKE Cancel Save A rule is a selection of XML files When a new XML file arrives in the XML_inbox directory as defined in the configuration then the Workflow if activated will compare the attributes and contents of the XML file with each of the rules listed until a condition for a rule is validated as true Only the first true rule is executed so the sequence of the rules is quite important You can rearrange the rules simply by dragging a rule up or down in the list For each rule you can later setup one or mo
210. value With the default value true you might see a problem when printing on older black white printers so for those printers you need to set this to false interform destination printer mediaSize Possible values iso a4 executive ledger etc Force selection of a specific paper size Typically this value is derived from the document type according to rules defined in printConfig xml Allowable values vary from one runtime environment to the next The printConfig command line tool can be used to produce a complete list of media sizes for each printer interform destination printer medial ray Possible values top bottom etc Force selection of a specific printer tray Typically this value is derived from the document type according to rules defined in printConfig xml Allowable values vary from one runtime environment to the next The printConfig command line tool can be used to produce a complete list of media trays for each printer interform destination printer orientation Possible values portrait landscape reverse landscape reverse portrait Force print to be output in landscape or portrait mode Typically this value is derived from the document type according to rules defined in printConfig xml interform destination printer pcl pcl With this meta data you can add extra PCL commands in the begining of the PCL print out from InterFormNG You can e g use this to select a specific paper drawer on the printer e g
211. which can be created by inserting one of these elements Page element Label element Group element Fixed Area Flow Area IF element ForEach element Repeat element This means that unless you activate the Keep styles option of the surrounding element then the style will be forgotten when leaving the actual subtree Here is an example We want to output an amount from the XML file but it should be written in red if the amount is less than 0 We can do that in this way m8 i Import Layout Template settings Page style Textstyle E Page Properties Left Right IE Comparison Comparator z Scope control Keep styles 90 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 Please note that the text element is outside the scope of the If element so that it is always inserted in the output The If element checks if the amount is less than 0 and importantly Activates Keep styles This makes the color style within the IF scope which sets the color to red active even after exiting the If scope That makes the new pen color red for the text element if needed After the text element the color is set to black setting the color back if it was previously changed InterForm A S 91 Other important icons and design settings Apart from the elements and styles there are a few other icons that can help you during the design process On the very left of the screen yo
212. width Scope control Keep styles Break settings Protect area from automatic page column break Line settings Line height The flow area will position the detail lines starting 1 inch from the top of the paper and 1 inch from the left The ForEach will loop over all the detail branches found in the XML file Each detail line is to presented as nice columns so that is why a Fixed area is used The NewLine element will make the output advance one line for each detail line within the flow area only The term line should here be thought of as any element or even a group of many elements not just text elements Use the NewLine element to advance the flow to below the elements inserted unless you specify a specific line height on the flow area An example of combination of multiple elements and the NewLine element can be seen below r 6 Settings H Import Ei Elements Top 6 Text style 6 Page style Eq Page H E Statics ag gt Top 6 Text this is a text Box 8 Newline i Text This is text on the next line Properties Columns Styles Description Top 1 000 Left 1 000 Use offset variable Minimum width Scope control Keep styles Break settings Protect area from automatic page column break T Line settings Line height this is a text This is text on the next line InterForm A S 95 The Page Static group Consider the design you want Are there any el
213. ystem Type 0301DMG Email dksupport interform400 com Vendor LENOVO Phone 445 Generate Trial Licence You can install a licence code file by copying it directly into INTERFORM_NGHlicence 18 Manual for InterFormNG Version 2014R09 If you already have a licence code installed then the screen above looks like this Licensing System Version 2014 R03 T Licence Platform WINDOWS System Id LRNDTNF System Type 0301DMG Vendor LENOVO Licence License Number 4741 Licence Platform WINDOWS System Id System Type Vendor Modules Name Type Valid From Valid To Version Limit Designer production null 2013 Print production null 2013 40 Printers PDF production null 2013 Email production 2013 01 01 2013 12 31 ALL trial 2013 01 01 2013 12 31 In order to replace the current InterForm NG licence file please do the following Licence File Select licence file Here you can load a new licence file if e g you want to try out an extra module or have purchased it You simply click Select licence file select the file and press Upload in the bottom right Alternative way to retrieve technical information An alternative for windows installations is to run an exe file which provides the information needed The file can be used instead of installing InterFormNG to obtain the information You can download the exe file via these links For 32bit windows machines http download interform400 com shares SW W indowsSyste

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