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bowen192
bowen192
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October 10, 2012
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Conditional Text formats table

  • October 10, 2012
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Hello ,

W7, FM11, TCS4.

I am applying conditional text to a 100 page manual I have set up.  I have made about eight Condition Tags.

When I apply one condition to a table, it changes from this:

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to this:

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9153/20121010105225.png

At first I thought it was leftover selection that would disappear after I scrolled the page up and down, but it appears not.

No changes have been made in the Table Designer or Custom Ruling and Shading.

Any ideas?

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Correct answer Bob_Niland

ksoltys wrote:

bowen192 wrote:

Also, how am I to apply Conditional Text to a table?

Select the table anchor (which will select the table) and apply the condition.

Regards

Keith

So it's not possible to apply the condition to part of a table?


> So it's not possible to apply the condition to part of a table?

It is, but only to entire rows, or to cell content (not the cell itself). You can't do entire columns, or parts of columns. You can't do parts of rows (as cell groups).

You can apply a CC to an entire table by tagging just the anchor.

You can apply a CC to entire rows (they don't need to be contiguous).

You can apply a CC to arbitrary content of arbitrary cells, just as in Flow A text. The cells will show up empty with the CC off (unless the entire row is CC'd off).

You can apply multiple CCs to the same content as above, with the normal pre-FM9 IOR rule, or the FM9+ expressions. As always, avoid overlapping CCs.

Of course, all of this presumes that Table CC works, without crashing, in your version of FM.

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Bob_Niland
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Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 10, 2012

What's the problem?

When you apply a CC to a table row, the appearance of the cell borders is modified to more or less evoke the text decoration (Indicators) specified for that CC. If you unShow that CC, those rows will collapse, along with the Indicators.

The CC is applied to the cells, and not the cell text. You might expect the CC to be applied to the cell text, but that is not done, because applying a CC to the cell text is left to you. The cell, and the text, can have different CCs.

bowen192
bowen192Author
Inspiring
October 10, 2012

Error7103 wrote:

What's the problem?

"When you apply a CC to a table row, the appearance of the cell borders is modified to more or less evoke the text decoration (Indicators) specified for that CC. If you unShow that CC, those rows will collapse, along with the Indicators."

That's exactly what happens!

"The CC is applied to the cells, and not the cell text. You might expect the CC to be applied to the cell text, but that is not done, because applying a CC to the cell text is left to you. The cell, and the text, can have different CCs."

Makes sense.

That all makes sense to me.  The only thing I'm uncertain about now is that it seems to be only one condition tag that follows this rule.

bowen192
bowen192Author
Inspiring
October 10, 2012

Also, how am I to apply Conditional Test to a table?

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