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  1. Is there a way to have custom tray pulls with finishing e.g. an 8 1/2x11 document with 11x17 slip sheets of colored paper folded, stapled, inserted? The data has the slip sheet locations, so as far as that goes, I believe I can use a method found here in the forums to trigger different colored pages for bag/bundle breaks.
  2. Right, I should have added that the lists are in order by part number lowest to highest, however I am going to see if the client would be O.K. with doing that sort in the data. I'lll try this loop out. Thanks Dan.
  3. I am looking to see if there is a way, perhaps with some variation on the FusionPro.Fields/AddVariable examples on the forum, to automatically insert a few hundred variables into four pages of price lists. The catch is, the client says the field names do not stay the same. So right now they have a monthly process of having to manually insert the variables, in numerical order, in FusionPro. Any ideas or suggestions appreciated.
  4. I am experiencing a challenge with this CreateXMLLogFile method. The XML log file is getting saved to different folder locations. I think it might be based on the folder location where I last saved a PDF. Anyway, is there any way to control where the XML file gets saved? It appears that specifying a subdirectory in-line like this: FusionPro.Composition.CreateXMLLogFile("\Compose\LabelFormSeqNum.xml"); ...does not do the trick.
  5. The software that generates the database (E2open) puts numbers in the first row, field names in the second row. I am also trying to find out if this can be changed on the output side, but no luck on that as of yet. Thanks.
  6. I've found answers to similar questions, but not quite what I was looking for... Is there an "easy" way to handle when your data source file is such that the second row contains the field names?
  7. It sure helps when going down a path to know it's a viable one. I took your xml log file suggestion Dan, and it works great. What the JavaScript code does... - In OnJobEnd, creates xml log file using FusionPro.Composition.CreateXMLLogFile(), writes a new key/value for the sequence number to the log file using FusionPro.Composition.LogXMLMetadata() - In OnJobStart, reads xml log file as external data file using ExternalDataFileEx(), searches/parses for key generated by OnJobEnd, gets current value - In OnRecordStart, increments the sequence value for however many records are in the current job ^Back to OnJobEnd to write the new sequence number to the xml log file, and so on for each new job that is run... End result is 7-digit number consisting of, last digit of current year, current month as an alpha character from A to L, then 5-digit sequence number per the above, which in this case increments up to 99999, then resets back to 00001 via OnRecordStart. Thanks Dan.
  8. Being asked if there is any way to have a unique number sequence in FusionPro Creator that "remembers" where it left off over all jobs that are run. Desire is to have unique numbers for all documents produced by the facility, trying to replace a system that generated a 7-digit number that didn't repeat for 10 years. I asked about doing this on the database side, but the customer said they are not able to do it. Any experiences or advice appreciated.
  9. You got it, what you presumed my code looked like is what I have now. I just borrowed it from an older post and tweaked it slightly. I will try out your suggestions. Thanks Dan!
  10. I have a customer who wants this as well (multipage to handle bleeds or no bleeds), so I set it up as graphic copyholes instead of overflow pages. The catch is now they want a 16-page template. So, I am trying to turn this, which works fine: //Insert upload PDF into each page for (pageLoop = 1; pageLoop <= pagesInPDF; pageLoop++) { PageFrame1.SetGraphic('<graphic file="' + PDFresourceRef.name + '" pagenumber = "1" scale="off" />'); PageFrame2.SetGraphic('<graphic file="' + PDFresourceRef.name + '" pagenumber = "2" scale="off" />'); PageFrame3.SetGraphic('<graphic file="' + PDFresourceRef.name + '" pagenumber = "3" scale="off" />'); return pathToPDF; } into something like this: //Insert upload PDF into each page for (pageLoop = 1; pageLoop <= pagesInPDF; pageLoop++) { 'PageFrame' + pageLoop + '.SetGraphic(<graphic file="' + PDFresourceRef.name + '" pagenumber = "' + 'pageLoop" scale="off" />)'; return pathToPDF; } but this does not work in that it appears to return the desired value, but the graphics preview as blank. Has anyone tried this? Am I just missing something in the syntax?
  11. I think I was trying to get too fancy with it. I was thinking of having a warning message frame with a white background, but also showing the user the overflowing text underneath, as a cue for where they need to reduce the content. The solution you provided is simpler, and works just fine. Thanks Dan.
  12. Actually, I am tying to suppress the frame itself, so it can have a white background. This is to display a warning message to a user who enters too much information on a business card.
  13. Checking if it there is a way (that I am not aware of) to suppress a text frame, if the content in the frame reaches the copyfit threshold. I have not been able to accomplish this, I presume because the frame suppression needs to be applied via OnRecordStart, which is called before OnCopyfit? Is there any way around this? Thanks.
  14. O.K., I had repeatRecordCount in place already, so I added repeatRecordNumber, and the code to split into separate files. Works like a charm! Thanks.
  15. Does anyone know a way to accomplish the following? The data contains a field for quantity (of output) for each record, e.g. - Record 1: Qty=50 Record 2: Qty=75 Record 3: Qty=25 and the need includes sequential numbering, such that: record 1 repeats numbered 1-50, record 2 repeats numbered 1-75, record 3 repeats numbered 1-25. Thanks.
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