{"id":6463,"date":"2018-04-05T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=6463"},"modified":"2020-08-17T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:58:59","slug":"sub-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/sub-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Sub-Projects (parameters)"},"content":{"rendered":"

To follow along, download the following project files (4) and place them in the Minisoft\\eFORMz_6\\projects\\Sample folder:<\/p>\n

CallSubProject<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When you pass parameters to a sub-project, they can be accessed in that sub-project by defining Data Node variables as follows:<\/p>\n

1. If the calling project does NOT pass XML as Input Data to the sub-project, then the variables are defined as Data Node variables with the following value for “Data Node”:<\/p>\n

Parameters\/<Parameter1Name>\nParameters\/<Parameter2Name><\/pre>\n
2. If the calling project passes XML as Input Data to the sub-project, then the Data Node value is prefixed “VariableValues\/”, like this:<\/p>\n
VariableValues\/Parameters\/<Parameter1Name>\nVariableValues\/Parameters\/<Parameter2Name><\/pre>\n
XML Input Data<\/h2>\n
The first pair of projects demonstrate how to access parameters in a sub-project when the Input Data is XML.<\/p>\n
CallSubProjectXMLDataAndParameters.efz<\/strong>
\nDefine an XML variable (XMLSomeData), and pass this to a sub-project along with two additional parameters: FormSize and Orientation. Define the \u201cInput format\u201d as XML and the \u201cCharacter set\u201d as UTF-8.<\/p>\n
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SubProjectXMLDataAndParameters.efz<\/strong>
\nIn the sub-project, define the two parameters as Data Node variables, with the Data Node value of \u201cVariableValues\/Parameters\/\u201d followed by the name of the parameter as passed from the calling project, \u201cFormSize\u201d in this example:<\/p>\n
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You can verify the variables are defined correctly in the sub-project if the parent project\u2019s output looks like this (the sub-project echoes the parameter names and values in a rule):<\/p>\n
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Non-XML Input Data<\/h2>\n
The second pair of projects demonstrates how to access parameters in a sub-project when the Input Data is anything other than XML.<\/p>\n
CallSubProjectNonXMLDataAndParameters.efz<\/strong>
\nDefine two variables to pass to the sub-project: Form and Orientation, and give them the values \u201c4×6\u201d and \u201cportrait\u201d, respectively. Call the sub-project from a rule, where the rule variable is the system variable \u201cN\/A\u201d, which is just an empty string (definitely not XML):<\/p>\n
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SubProjectNonXMLDataAndParameters.efz<\/strong>
\nIn the sub-project, define the incoming parameters as Data Node variables, with the Data Node value of \u201cParameters\/\u201d followed by the name of the parameter as passed from the calling project, \u201cFormSize\u201d in this example:<\/p>\n
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You can verify the variables are defined correctly in the sub-project if the parent project\u2019s output looks like this (the sub-project echoes the parameter names and values in a rule):<\/p>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To follow along, download the following project files (4) and place them in the Minisoft\\eFORMz_6\\projects\\Sample folder: CallSubProject When you pass parameters to a sub-project, they can be accessed in that sub-project by defining Data Node variables as follows: 1. If the calling project does NOT pass XML as Input Data to the sub-project, then the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[107,395,393,394,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8336,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions\/8336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}