Interactive Documents > Using Interactive Templates With VPE

Basically, the handling of Templates which contain Controls (i.e. Interactive Objects) is the same as for normal Templates (see also: "

dycodoc Template Processing"):

•Open a VPE Document

•Load the Template

•Set the Fields as required

•Dump the Template

•Show the Preview

The above will display the Template in the Preview, with the controls showing the values you had assigned to the Fields. However, you will realize that you can not make use of the Controls, i.e. they don't react on mouse clicks or keyboard input. The reason is that interaction is disabled by default. In order to activate the Controls, you need to:

•Enable Interaction

By doing so, the controls will then react on mouse and keyboard input. Furthermore, you can set the Input Focus to any Control, so the user may start directly with editing the document.