Specification template components

Note: Landscape orientation in specification templates is ignored by the Live integration with Word output mode — page layout is always portrait in live Word documents.

A specification template contains the following elements of Microsoft Office Word:

• Style and format definition
• Title page
• Table of contents
• Header and footer information
• Transfer modes
• Object export structure

Title page

The title page can combine static and dynamic text, often including:

• Document title derived from a Teamcenter property value identified by a keyword.
• Copyright and trademark information.
• Description and owner name.

For example, to include the description and owner name of a selected requirement, include {%object_desc} and {%owning_user} in the template — these are persistent properties of the requirement object.

Note: To view the object properties usable in a template, look them up in BMIDE. Only persistent properties can be used in templates. Out-of-the-box, Siemens Digital Industries Software does not support export of contextual information using property names.

Table of contents

Added using the Table of Contents options in Microsoft Word. You can specify the number of heading levels and choose a format.

Headers and footers

Can be defined for each section of the specification template: first page, odd page, and even page headers/footers, added via Word's Header and Footer options. You can also add footnotes and endnotes.

Styles

Specification templates use standard Microsoft Word style tools, letting you define: paragraph styles, character styles, link styles, numbering styles, table styles, default document paragraph/character properties, style inheritance, style application, and latent styles.

Caution: Modify Word styles only in the template — style modification through Word's associated XML files can corrupt the template and its output documents.

In export documents based on the default specification template, Word's Normal style can overwrite styles applied to object content. Workaround in the default specification template:

1. Add a dummy paragraph, and apply the overwritten style to the dummy.
2. Save the changes.
3. Delete the dummy paragraph, then save and close the specification template.

Body content

The body content of the specification template contains free-form text and information extracted from the Teamcenter database using keywords. Body content can reflect a static structure exported from Systems Engineering, or a dynamic structure generated using transfer modes and conditions in transfer modes.

Caution: Do not use property keywords in the Word content of requirement, paragraph, or block objects. Keywords in object content (e.g. {%body_text}) cause an infinite loop in the export process, and error messages are not displayed.

Related Topics

• Property name syntax in specification templates and object templates
• Content rule for specification templates and object templates