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KuriousKatie
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August 10, 2022
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Show/Hide certain elements on page, when certain text is visible in specified area

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I have another query, if anyone can help me? 🙂

 

Is there any way in inDesign to show/hide certain specified elements on the page, if a certain word in another element is present?

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Correct answer Laubender

@KuriousKatie asked: "Will this work if I add more things to that group, as in the grey box and the description below?"

 

Hi @KuriousKatie ,

you did another thread where you asked a similar question:

 

Show/Hide a group of items based on whether a word from a data merge is present in that group.
KuriousKatie, Aug 16, 2022

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/show-hide-a-group-of-items-based-on-whether-a-word-from-a-data-merge-is-present-in-that-group/td-p/13138760

 

From your posted csv file there I can see that the first entry of e.g. Oestradiol is simply none.

So Brian's first[*] script will not work on a merged document with that data. The problem is to find a sufficient algorithm that could react on e.g. a group with that entry set and turn the whole group to invisible.

 

Also related is this thread you started in Aug 01, 2022:

 

Conditional Formatting to shapes from CSV text
KuriousKatie, Aug 01, 2022
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/conditional-formatting-to-shapes-from-csv-text/td-p/13108461

 

Here the link to my post where I am presenting a solution based on the "Conditional Formatting" thread:

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/show-hide-a-group-of-items-based-on-whether-a-word-from-a-data-merge-is-present-in-that-group/m-p/13140217#M488700

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

 

[*] Edited. Did not see all the answers that were posted the last two hours.

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LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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August 17, 2022

@KuriousKatie asked: "Will this work if I add more things to that group, as in the grey box and the description below?"

 

Hi @KuriousKatie ,

you did another thread where you asked a similar question:

 

Show/Hide a group of items based on whether a word from a data merge is present in that group.
KuriousKatie, Aug 16, 2022

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/show-hide-a-group-of-items-based-on-whether-a-word-from-a-data-merge-is-present-in-that-group/td-p/13138760

 

From your posted csv file there I can see that the first entry of e.g. Oestradiol is simply none.

So Brian's first[*] script will not work on a merged document with that data. The problem is to find a sufficient algorithm that could react on e.g. a group with that entry set and turn the whole group to invisible.

 

Also related is this thread you started in Aug 01, 2022:

 

Conditional Formatting to shapes from CSV text
KuriousKatie, Aug 01, 2022
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/conditional-formatting-to-shapes-from-csv-text/td-p/13108461

 

Here the link to my post where I am presenting a solution based on the "Conditional Formatting" thread:

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/show-hide-a-group-of-items-based-on-whether-a-word-from-a-data-merge-is-present-in-that-group/m-p/13140217#M488700

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

 

[*] Edited. Did not see all the answers that were posted the last two hours.

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brian_p_dts
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brian_p_dtsCommunity Expert
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August 10, 2022

Need some more specifics, but this rudimentary function would find a phrase in all top-level text frames on the doc's first page, and, if found, toggle off a specific top-level page item on the page. Note if you have grouped/anchored objects to toggle, this doesn't work. 

 

var page = app.activeDocument.pages[0];
var tfs = page.textFrames.everyItem().contents.join(" ");
if (/lorem ipsum/g.test(tfs)) {
    page.pageItems.itemByName("someframe").visible = false;
}

 

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KuriousKatieAuthor
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August 16, 2022

Basically, I have a file pulling data from a CSV, and I want to know if there is a way to show/hide the 'oestradiol' title circle and description text, if the text within the coloured circle is "noprostate". The text within the coloured circle used a grep style that displays red/green based on whether the field says 'safe' or 'unsafe'.

 

I've attached a mock file of what I mean, if someone can look over it to help me out?

 

Hopefully what I'm explaining I need makes sense?

 

brian_p_dts
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brian_p_dtsCommunity Expert
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August 16, 2022

Assuming the title and text circle are grouped, then you could do something like this, adapting my code from above:

 

var pis = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
var n = pis.length;
while(n--) {
try {
if (/noprostate/g.test(tfs)) {
    pis[n].parent.visible = false;
} catch(e) {//not a text frame probably}
}
}
    John Mensinger
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    John MensingerCommunity Expert
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    August 10, 2022

    You can make bodies of text "conditional," but what you describe doesn't seem to fit that. Even if you could make (the) InDesign (editing space) actively hide/display certain elements based on the presence or absence of a particular word, it would only be of workflow benefit, and not necessarily active in the deliverable end product. For that, in PDF, you could use Acrobat Javascript to show/hide "fields" based on the value of another given field.

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