12 Understanding Subtemplates

A subtemplate is a piece of formatting functionality that can be defined once and used multiple times within a single layout template or across multiple layout template files. This chapter describes concepts for using subtemplates in BI Publisher.

This chapter includes the following sections:

For information on designing an RTF subtemplate, see Designing RTF Subtemplates. For information on designing an XSL subtemplate, see Designing XSL Subtemplates.