Correspondence Fragment form - Completing the Stream tab

Complete this tab to define the source for the fragment, using the rich text editor in design mode or HTML codes in source mode.

Click to operate in design mode, where the toolbar is available to apply formatting and other edits. In design mode, select text with the mouse pointer and click a tool to apply formatting, such as bold, underscore, and italics.
Click to view or update the source as HTML codes. In source mode, you can add HTML elements and JSP tags directly. For example, you can add the when JSP tag to conditionalize a portion of the HTML code. If you use JSP tags that identify a clipboard page, include the name and class of that page on the Pages & Classes tab.

(Rich text editor facilities are not available for fragments that use directives rather than JSP tags.)

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Enter rich text for the fragment. In design mode, a wide variety of tools are available in the toolbar including fonts, font sizes, colors, lists formatting, graphic elements and alignments. Certain controls are available only in Design mode, and only when some text is selected.

Upper toolbar

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(Arial)	Change the font of selected text.
(8)	Change the font size of selected text
(`normal`)	Convert the selected paragraph to a normal paragraph (<p> tag) or one of six heading levels (<h1> to <h6>).
	Convert the selected paragraphs to an unordered list (<ul> tag).
	Convert the selected paragraphs to an ordered list (<ol> tag).
	Indent, increase space at the beginning of the selected lines.
	Outdent, reduce space at the beginning of the selected lines.
	Make the selected text an HTML link (<a> tag). In a pop-up window, enter the HREF= value in the Name field. Select the Open in new window box if desired. Optionally, enter ToolTip text in the Description field. Click Save.
	Insert a reference to an image. (The URL must identify an image that is available to the correspondence recipient.)
	Include the value of a scalar property at the selected insertion point. Complete the pop-up window to supply the property Name, a optional Format (HTML Property rule) and an optional When condition rule. You may type in a full property reference. Click Save. The system generates a <pega:reference > JSP tag from the information you provide.
	Include the value of a section or paragraph rule at the selected insertion point. Complete the pop-up window to identify the rule type (section or paragraph), the Purpose key part, an optional When condition rule, and (if the included rule is based on a page other than the page of this paragraph), a Using Page page name value. Click Save. The system creates a <pega:include ..> JSP tag from the information you supply.

Lower toolbar

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	Bold the selected text using the <strong> HTML tag.
	Make the selected text italics.
	Make the selected text underscored.
	Convert the selected text to a subscript.
	Convert the selected text to a superscript.
	Change the font color of the selected text. Choose a color from the palette.
	Set the background color of the selected area. Choose a color from the palette.
	Left-align the lines in the selected paragraph.
	Center the lines in the selected paragraph.
	Right=-align the lines in the selected paragraph.
	Justify the lines in the selected paragraph by adding spaces.
	Switch to design mode
	Switch to source mode.
	Spell check the correspondence.

Omit Extra Space

Select to eliminate extra space characters in the processed HTML. This can make transmission or processing more efficient. Is does not alter the appearance of the HTML when displayed in correspondence.

When selected, at runtime Process Commander:

Deletes control characters such as tab and newline.
Replaces two or more consecutive space characters with a single space, except within the curly brace characters defining directives.

Stream processing always copies space characters within the text of a property value, non-breaking spaces (&NBSP;) and space characters within a literal directive into the processed HTML without change.

Generate For

This field and the Convert to JSP button appear only when the rule contains HTML directives rather than JSP tags. The value that appears is HTML.

As a best practice, use JSP tags rather than directives. In most cases, you can convert correspondence fragments that use directives to JSP tags automatically, using the button.

If this rule is circumstance-qualified or time-qualified, make this Generate For value match the Generate For value of the base rule. The base rule and the qualified rules must all use JSP tags or all use directives.

Convert to JSP

This button appears only after you save the form when the Generate For value is HTML and this rule is created by a Save As operation. See Converting from directives to JavaServer Page tags.

About Correspondence Fragment rules

Correspondence Fragment form Completing the Stream tab

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Correspondence Fragment form
Completing the Stream tab