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# Content

The content field in the export template editor is based on Apache Freemarker and supports most of the built-in references from this. See more information on these [here](https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/ref_builtins.html).

How to use date and time formatting in the editor can be found [here](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/format/DateTimeFormatter.html).

### Features

The content field has a number of built-in features that can be used

#### Lists

You can create lists, this is a method to loop through records. In the code block below you see how to define a list. The #list is the function name, \[recordset] refers to the recordset from the datatype used for the list. \[variable] is the value used within the list to get fields from the recordset. The indented second line shows how a field would be referred to using variable and field name.

```
<#list [recordset] as [variable]>
    #{[variable].[fieldname]}
</#list>
```

#### Functions

The editor also supports the creation of functions that can be used within it. Add these at the bottom of the editor. A function is used by using ? as prefix for the field.

```
<#function [functionName] [variable]>
  <#if [variable] == ‘something’>
    <#return “Found something”>
  </#if>
    <#return “Did not find something”>
</#function>

```

#### Inline functions

There exists a number of inline functions that can be used also

| Field prefix | Function        | Description                                                      |
| ------------ | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| #            | ?string(“0.00”) | Used on numeric fields to define how to format the number        |
| ?            | ?leftPad(X,””)  | Used to pad the field value to the left with defined characters  |
| ?            | ?rigthPad(X,"") | Used to pad the field value to the right with defined characters |

### Fields

Each datatype has a number of fields available to be included in the export.

These can be seen in the list of available fields.


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