User-Defined Data Sources

Guide Template Language offers two types of user-defined data sources:

• Dataobjects use a global scope, making data available for reuse multiple times via section tags.
• Datasources reside locally within the tags, making data accessible only inside the scope of the datasource tags.

In this example, the two sections for the dataobject would display this text:

Data from Dataobject using Section Tag

The first section for the datasource example would display this text:

Data from Inside Datasource

The second section from the datasource example would display this text:

This will not display the output of the out-of-scope variable:

The section does not display the template tag because it could not access any relevant data.