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However, when you want to do something that goes beyond what you can do with a Wizard,
like creating a conditional paragraph with a condition that is based on a combination of data
fields, you have to write the script yourself.
This topic explains how scripts work and how you can create and write a script.
Script types
There are generally two types of scripts: Control Scripts and template scripts.
Control Scripts don't touch the content of the sections themselves, but they change the way a
template is outputted, for example by selecting or omitting sections from the output. For more
information about Control Scripts and their use, see "Control Scripts" on page570.
Template scripts can change the contents of sections in a template. This type of script must
have a selector. The selector can be text, an HTML element and/or a CSS selector. Running a
template script starts with looking for pieces of content in the template that match the script's
selector.
The results of this query can vary from one occurrence of a simple text (for example:
@EMAIL@) to a large collection of HTML elements. For example, when the selector is p, the
HTML tag for a paragraph, all paragraphs will be collected and passed to the script.
Tip
Hover over the name of a script in the Scripts pane to highlight parts of the template that
are affected by the script.
Next, the script can modify the selected pieces of content, using values from the record that is
merged to the template at the time the script runs. It can, for example, hide, replace or add text
or change the style of those pieces of content. This is how scripts personalize documents.
Note
In a Print context, the scripts in the Scripts pane run once for each section and then once
for each Master Page (see "Master Pages" on page322).
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