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Showing content conditionally
One way to personalize content is to show or hide one or more elements depending on a field’s
value. For example, a paragraph written for Canadian customers could be hidden when the
recipient of the letter is not living in Canada, if that can be derived from the data.
The Conditional Script Wizard helps you to show or hide one element – a paragraph, image or
other HTML element - based on the value of one or more data fields. For example, you could
check whether the data field 'State' is 'Equal To' the value 'British Columbia' or 'Québec', to
include a paragraph for all recipients in those states.
Showing or hiding elements using the Conditional Content Script wizard
1.
Right-click the element 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 Content Script. The Conditional Content Script wizard opens.
2. Rename the script so that it reflects what the script does.
Note
Scripts can only have the same name when they are not in the same folder.
3.
If you have started creating the script from the Scripts pane, you have to type a Selector.
The selector selects one or more pieces of text or elements from the template, so that the
conditional content script can hide or show those pieces. An ID (for example:
#conditional-script) is best if you want to show or hide one element only. Use a class
selector (for example: .conditional) if the script should show or hide more than one
element. See "Using the Text Script Wizard" on page290 for further explanation on
selectors.
If you have started the Conditional Script Wizard by right-clicking an element, you don't
have to set a selector. If the element didn't have an ID, a new ID has been generated
automatically. The new ID functions as the selector of the script.
You can change the selector after closing and reopening the script (double-click the
name of the script in the Scripts pane).
4.
Set the Action: use the drop-down to select whether to Show or Hide the element when
the condition below is true.
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