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If there is no columnHeaders pattern, a VerticalTableNode is rendered in a generic way. This mode of rendering is similar to the Word Channel: each column is rendered individually, depending on its value type. Typical value types are text, amount, count, date. The basic idea is that the style of a column (particularly format and alignment) depends on its value type.

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Pattern names containing a value type with a hyphen ('-') need to be written with a underscore ('_') instead (e.g. p-abs is written as p_abs in the template).

Column related pattern names therefore contain the value type:

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Generic tables can only be rendered if there is no matching columnHeaders pattern in any of the templates used (main template and configured templates). It is therefore a good idea to always prefix columnHeaders with a style if a template is also used for generic tables.

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If the report parameter addExcelTrace to is true, the rendering process is traced for each pattern, and the trace appended to the Excel document as worksheet "Pattern Usage Trace".

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