What does it mean? Specify ReportAuthor, …by adding tagged values to the gen...

[PeterHeintz]

On the history page for V12.1 http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/history.html#1224
I found following:
Specify ReportAuthor, ReportTitle, ReportName, ReportVersion, ReportStatus and ReportAlias by adding tagged values to the generated package

But what does it mean?
Using package attributes like ReportAuthor, ReportTitle, ReportName, ReportVersion, ReportStatus and ReportAlias as report constants was already there in Vxx <V12.1.

Does it mean that I can now specify my own tagged values as reporting constants, and if so how do I use them in a document template?

[Geert Bellekens]

The difference is that in a virtual document package the tagged values can be used, where before you had to fill in the alias, author, version etc.. on the package itself.

Geert

[PeterHeintz]

Greet, which tagged values?
Tagged values I define in the virtual document package myself?
Can I define and use a tagged value of “mySpecialTag” and use it e.g. in headers and footers?

[Geert Bellekens]

No, not tagged values you define yourself. They are automatically there when you create a virtual document from the toolbox.

Geert

[PeterHeintz]

This is what I assumed, but I had some hope.
I still have the problem of having some meta data I need to put on cover page, header, footer which are on package level but I cannot cover with reporting constants.
Any idea on that, rather than duplication templates?

[Geert Bellekens]

No, not really, except for a feature request to Sparx

Geert

[PeterHeintz]

I have posted a feature request several months ago.
The simple solution from my perspective would be to access tagged values as reporting constants of the root package in the same way as possible in the package processing within the templates.