Unable to use dataitem action

Question

Hi Forum,
I am building xMII's XML format document and in that I am using data item action to add data in a row. When i tried mentioning the document name,data item name and value in the 'configure object' option(data is mentioned at design time),  data is getting inserted properly in to the document.
But if i try to set the document name,item name and value name in the 'configure links' option(data to be fetched at runtime), data is not getting inserted.
Can any one tell how to work out when data is to be fetched at runtime or is it supposed to work only when the data item name is mentioned at design time ?
Thanks a lot,
Mike

Answer 1

Hi Samuel,
Document will make a empty Document Structure,
=> lets call it myDOC.
Column will add a Column to this if it points to myDOC.
- to add more than one Column you need either N Column Actions or put one Column Action in a Loop.
=> We add one Column called myCol1 in the Link Editor.
Now we need a ROW Action because we want to Add a row for our values - it points to myDOC.
- to add more than one Row you shoud use a Loop.
Now we use the DATAITEM - it points to myDOC. It will put the values in the empty Row we just created.
- to data in more than one Column you need N DataItem or a Loop over your Columns (where ever you take them from).
- name of the Column has to be myCol1 as we added this before.
Should work. By the way I'm on xMII 12.0.1 but this shouldn't play a role.
Ciao
Martin
PS: I think you have forgotten the ROW.