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Showing or hiding a text selection
When you right-click on an element and make it conditional, the element as a whole will be
made conditional. This happens even when you select a few words in a paragraph and right-
click those words; the paragraph as a whole will be made conditional.
It is, however, possible to partially show or hide a paragraph or a line item in a list. Before you
can do that, you have to select the text that you want to be shown or hidden and wrap it in a
span element first:
1. Select the part of the text that you want to make conditional.
2.
Right-click the selected text and click Wrap in span.
3.
Type an ID and/or a class. An ID is fine if this is the only thing that should be shown or
hidden on a given condition. Use a class if there is more that should be shown or hidden
on the same condition.
4.
Start creating a conditional content script from the Scripts pane. Use the ID or class as
the selector of the script. See "Showing or hiding elements using the Conditional Content
Script wizard" on page796.
Conditional Print sections
You can include or exclude entire Print sections from the output, depending on a field’s value.
This can be done using the Conditional Print Section Script Wizard, described below.
Alternatively you could write a Control Script (see "Control Scripts" on page890).
Including or excluding Print sections using the Conditional Print Section Script wizard
1.
Right-click the section and click Make Conditional.
Alternatively click the black triangle on the New button on the Scripts pane at the bottom
left of the window, and click Conditional Print Section Script. Double-click the new
script to open the Conditional Print Section Script wizard.
2. Rename the script so that it reflects what the script does.
3. Select the section you want to put a condition on.
4.
Set the Action: Print or Skip that is performed when the condition below is true. The
opposite action is applied when the condition returns false.
5.
Click the downward pointing arrow next to Datafield, to select the data field that should
be evaluated.
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