Different Footers for Odd and Even Pages
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The best way to set up a publishing template is to use a Word document for all document style elements, and for any front matter, and then the ELO Pub query for content. You reference the style names from the Word document in the ELO Pub template elements and then, when the document generates, it uses the Word styles.
This means that your existing document would become the style reference and so your page setup can be exactly as you currently have it.
You can also define a master page template in ELO Pub where you style the page itself and you can set up page footers in that, but I would recommend using the Word doc for style as much as you can for better separation of concerns
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If you need to fill in the footer with fields populated dynamically then you can either use DocProperties or Bookmarks.
Doc Properties:
- in the Word document, use a Doc Property inside the footer element
- in the ELO Pub template, add a DocProperty element and populate it with the desired contents
- when the document is generated, ELO Pub will set the property inside the document and this will then be shown in the footer
Bookmarks:
- in the Word document, define a Bookmark in the footer where you want the content to go
- in the ELO Pub template, add an element (most likely Text or Paragraph given it's a footer, but you can use a container and create large chunks of content), and set its Section property to the name of the Bookmark you've defined
- when the document is generated, the named section will be inserted wherever the book mark name is found in the document