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(maroon, by default).
Right-click the property field and choose Get Data Location or Get Metadata Location to
open the Data Selector (see "The Data Selector" on page842) or Get Repository Location to
open the Data Repository Manager (see "Data Repository Manager" on page839).
Note
The Get (...) Value options will also open the Data Selector or the Data Repository
Manager, but once selected, the value becomes static and does not change between
each data page and job file.
After opening a sample of the data (see "Choosing a sample data file" on page70) and/or
Metadata, you can easily make a selection.
It is also possible to manually enter a data selection, or to change it after making a selection
with the mouse pointer.
Data selections can also be used in a PlanetPress Design document that is being merged with
the data (for example in a printed output); for more information, see PlanetPress Design User
Guide.
Wild card parameter "?"
Data/Metadata selection functions accept a wildcard parameter "?", indicating the function
operates on all nodes (not just one) of a given level.
Examples
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In a PDF emulation, the format of a selected region could be:
region(?,0.59375,2.21875,1.85416,2.51041,KeepCase,NoTrim)
In this case “?” represents the current physical data page processed by the task.
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In the following rule, the Metadata selection function loops through all datapages in a job,
comparing their index in the document to a value:
(GetMeta(SelectedIndexInDocument[0], 11, Job.Group[?].Document
[?].Datapage[?]) Equal 0
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In the following rule, the question mark in the text-based data selection represents the
current page number:
(@(?,1,1,1,9,KeepCase,NoTrim) IS EQUAL TO Page 1 of)
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