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Example
The following script reads the value of the LANGUAGE field in the record and uses that value
as the selector in the function loadhtml(). If the snippet contains an HTML element with this ID
(for example, <p ID=”En”>), that HTML element will be added to the content:
var language = record.fields.LANGUAGE;
results.loadhtml(‘snippets/nameofthesnippet.html’, ‘#’+ language)
Another example is given in the following how-to: Using a selector to load part of a snippet.
See also: "Designer Scripts API" on page786.
Tip
An easy way to group content in a snippet is putting each part in a container and giving
that container an ID, for example:
<div ID=”EN”><p>This is text for English customers.</p></div>
Use the function .children() to load the contents of the container, and not the container
itself. For example:
results.loadhtml(‘Snippets/myfooter.html’, ‘#EN’).children()
This script loads the paragraph of the example (<p>), but not the container itself (<div>).
Load a snippet and insert variable data into it
The following script loads part of a snippet based on the value of a field, and then
finds/replaces text by the value of a field before inserting the content into the document.
var promoTxt = loadhtml('snippets/promo-en.html', '#' +
record.fields['YOGA']);
promoTxt.find('@first@').text(record.fields['FIRSTNAME']);
results.html(promoTxt);
Control Scripts
When output is generated from a template, Control Scripts run before all other scripts, when a
record is merged with a context. They determine how different sections of the context are
handled. They can, for example, make the page numbering continue over all Print sections,
split Email attachments, or omit Print sections from the output.
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