Creating and using answer documents

It is now possible to use
Contract Express
templates as the basis for documents summarizing the questionnaire and answers given. This provides great flexibility and control over the style and layout of these documents. Answer documents are produced per session and are controlled by a single launch parameter, db_output_answer_templates, that can have multiple values, each the reference of a template to be used for the answers.
Answer templates are different to normal templates only in that they use a special set of variables, called meta-variables, that are populated by
Contract Express
. A number of example answer templates are deployed with
Contract Express
, along with a dictionary template giving details of all the meta-variables. Note that answer templates must be uploaded before they can be used.
You are free to write your own answer templates. It might easiest to start off by taking the example template that is closest to your requirement and modifying that. Once you are familiar with the approach you can start one from scratch, just attach the answer template dictionary as an external dictionary, and you can easily insert the required fields and spans into your template.

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