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  1. It WORKS! Thank you!! I finally followed the logic and instead of defining a specific data source at the beginning, I just defined it as 'none'. That make everything work. Thank you again for helping me over this hurdle. You rock my hand knit socks! What a great way to end a Friday!
  2. "dataFile_US,dataFileCAN cellphone.txt,cellphone_CAN.txt" Does this go into the onRecordStart rule?
  3. Oh, and no. This would be composed separately from the actual job. It doesn't really have anything to do with the actual composition. I just thought the Variable Output Sheet should be able to create itself instead of having to be filled out by hand.
  4. First of all, thank you for helping me with this. I was making it so much more difficult. Overthinking, that's my superpower. You got what I was aiming for with the US part. The CAN/INT part would be the same, but with a different external data file. Is it possible to reference more than one external data file at a time? We do mailings for local casinos, and since Canada has a different postal rate, they break our data into a US mailing and a Canada/international mailing.
  5. Okay, So. When we run variable jobs, we create an Variable Output sheet that has information for the copier operators. Right now, it is hand written by whomever composes the job and some people's handwriting leaves some copier operators to wonder if the forms were filled out by chickens. It has to have the first and last number of records, and the first and last names of those records. say the data has 602 records. (in this case the cellphone.txt from the tutorials) I would need to populate n area on the form with 'record # 1' and another area with 'record # 602' To coincide with that I need the '(Field)"Fname") + " " + (Field)"Lname")) for both first and last records. So far I can populate the first record number and name with simple 'return' functions. I have sussed out how to call in the last record number, using an OnRecordStart callback that I gleaned from surfing this forum. I have attached what I'm getting so far. Only, to get that result, I am still getting composition of All records, (so a 602 page variable data sheet). I've come this far in a week, teaching myself JavaScript in slow time at work and watching all the videos from PTI. Can someone help me figure out how to get this result by composing only one sheet? (and if anyone wants to help fill in the other bits that are labeled according to what's needed that would be wonderful). Thank you in advance. ~S Variable Output Sheet (small).pdf 11111.zip
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