1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2ae3b042bSmseidel 30e4b25e7SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4ae3b042bSmseidel * 50e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 60e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 70e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 80e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 90e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 100e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 110e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * with the License. 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For example, you can define the conditional text that is displayed in a series of reminder letters.</paragraph> 42ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155895" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="6">Setting up conditional text in this example is a two-part process. First you create a variable, and then you create the condition.</paragraph> 43ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3153175" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" 44ae3b042bSmseideloldref="61">To Define a Conditional Variable</paragraph> 45*b184ee58Smseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153185" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="62">The first part of the example is to define a variable for the condition statement.</paragraph> 46ae3b042bSmseidel<list type="ordered"> 47ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 48ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155566" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="8">Choose <item type="menuitem">Insert - Fields - Other</item>, and then click the <item type="menuitem">Variables</item> tab.</paragraph> 49ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 50ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 51ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147759" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="9">Click "Set variable" in the <item type="menuitem">Type</item> list.</paragraph> 52ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 53ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 54ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147784" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="10">Type a name for the variable in the <item type="menuitem">Name</item> box, for example <item type="literal">Reminder</item>.</paragraph> 55ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 56ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 57ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147810" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="57">Click "Text" in the <item type="menuitem">Format</item> list.</paragraph> 58ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 59ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 60ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7748344" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Enter <item type="literal">1</item> in the <item type="menuitem">Value</item> box, and then click <item type="menuitem">Insert</item>.<br/>The Format list now displays a "General" format.</paragraph> 61ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 62ae3b042bSmseidel</list> 63ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3145645" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" 64ae3b042bSmseideloldref="63">To Define a Condition and the Conditional Text</paragraph> 65ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145659" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="64">The second part of the example is to define the condition that must be met, and to insert a placeholder for displaying the conditional text in your document.</paragraph> 66ae3b042bSmseidel<list type="ordered"> 67ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 68ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151193" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="12">Place the cursor where you want to insert the conditional text in your text.</paragraph> 69ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 70ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 71ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151212" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="65">Choose <item type="menuitem">Insert - Fields - Other</item>, and then click the <item type="menuitem">Functions</item> tab.</paragraph> 72ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 73ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 74ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151250" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="13">Click "Conditional text" in the <item type="menuitem">Type</item> list.</paragraph> 75ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 76ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 77ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155936" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="14">Type <item type="literal">Reminder EQ "3"</item> in the <item type="menuitem">Condition</item> box. In other words, the conditional text will be displayed when the variable in the field that you defined in the first part of this example is equal to three.</paragraph> 78ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155969" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="15">The quotation marks enclosing the "3" indicate that the variable that you defined in the first part of this example is a text string.</paragraph> 79ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 80ae3b042bSmseidel</list> 81ae3b042bSmseidel<list type="ordered" startwith="5"> 82ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 83ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150446" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="16">Type the text that you want to display when the condition is met in the <emph>Then</emph> box. There is almost no limit to the length of the text that you can enter. You can paste a paragraph into this box.</paragraph> 84ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 85ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 86ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150473" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="17">Click <emph>Insert</emph>, and then click <emph>Close</emph>.</paragraph> 87ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 88ae3b042bSmseidel</list> 89ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3155073" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" 90ae3b042bSmseideloldref="66">To Display the Conditional Text</paragraph> 91ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155086" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="67">In this example, the conditional text is displayed when the value of the conditional variable is equal to 3.</paragraph> 92ae3b042bSmseidel<list type="ordered"> 93ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 94ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155110" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="19">Place your cursor in front of the field that you defined in the first part of this example, and then choose <emph>Edit - Fields</emph>.</paragraph> 95ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 96ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 97ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155136" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="68">Replace the number in the <item type="menuitem">Value</item> box with 3, and then click <item type="menuitem">Close</item>.</paragraph> 98ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 99ae3b042bSmseidel<listitem> 100ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155168" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="20">If the field does not automatically update, press F9.</paragraph> 101ae3b042bSmseidel</listitem> 102ae3b042bSmseidel</list> 103ae3b042bSmseidel<section id="relatedtopics"> 104ae3b042bSmseidel<embed href="text/swriter/guide/fields_userdata.xhp#fields_userdata"/> 105ae3b042bSmseidel<embed href="text/swriter/guide/conditional_text2.xhp#conditional_text2"/> 106ae3b042bSmseidel<embed href="text/swriter/01/04090200.xhp#defining_conditions"/> 107ae3b042bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145714" role="paragraph" l10n="C"><link href="text/swriter/02/14020000.xhp" name="List of conditional operators">List of conditional operators</link></paragraph> 108ae3b042bSmseidel</section> 109ae3b042bSmseidel</body> 110ae3b042bSmseidel</helpdocument> 111