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An OfficeWriter Word template is a Word file that contains merge fields. A merge field displays a database field name where database values will be inserted. OfficeWriter templates are created with the OfficeWriter Designer.
When you save the template, the OfficeWriter Designer encodes it as a custom XML element in a Reporting Services RDL file. To publish a report, you will submit the RDL file to a Reporting Services server where OfficeWriter is installed. The OfficeWriter renderer on the server regenerates the template, and - using data supplied by Reporting Services - replaces the merge fields in the document with database values.
The format of a merge field is:
<<DatabaseQueryName.FieldName>>
For example, this merge field is a placeholder for values from the "Last Name" field in the data set returned by a query called "Employees":
<<Employees.LastName>>
The template shown below contains three merge fields.
