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Building a Connection
The feature can be used for many scenarios including:
Produce a text file containing the name and price of each item on special offer today presented within a
sentence (e.g. '
Today's special is Bak ed Beans - only 49p a can! '. The resulting files can be displayed using a
iCOMPEL text folder play item. This example is described in more detail below.
Produce a series of HTML files containing specific Key Performance Indicator (KPI) values for each region. The
HTML file contains special formatting code to highlight KPI values which have not been met. Within a single
Channel, the iCOMPEL Conditional Play feature can be used to display the correct region file.
Note that the Character set option for the media item on the iCOMPEL should be set to UTF-8.
Presentation Format File
The Presentation Format file can be any text based format, including HTML and XML, and can have any extension.
Within the Presentation Format file contents, special markers are used to indicate where to substitute a value from
the current record.
The following markers are used:
Marker Format Description
{field name}
Replace each instance of this marker with the current record value for
this field name.
{field name.FieldName}
Replace each instance of this marker with the name of this field as
specified in the original data.
The field name is the exact name of the field to replace. The field name is case sensitive, so Name is treated
differently from name .
The following field names are reserved for use by the iCompel Data Engine (iDE). These field names may be used
within the Presentation Format file. If the result data contains identical field names, the result data value will be used
in preference to the iDE supplied value.