Running Data File Multiple Times???

[TroyM68]

I've got an interesting situation. I really thought I would find something similar on the forum, but I wasn't able to find anything.

I have an 8-page (4-sheets duplexed) court document that will have variable data on the front sides. It's really just a 1-sheet (2-pages duplexed) job that is replicated 3 more times. The first four pages are printed on 2-sided 2-part carbonless paper and will be sent to the court for signatures. 1-part for the court, 1-part for the defendant. The other pages are all going to be mailed out and will be printed on plain paper. One 2-sided sheet to the plaintiff and one 2-sided sheet to the defendant.

The customer is wanting this to basically print to three different stacks.

Stack 1
is the first 4 pages which will be printed on carbonless paper. Bottom of page one is marked "Court", bottom of page 3 is marked "Plaintiff".

Stack 2
is pages 5-6 being mailed to the Defendant. Bottom of page 5 is marked "Defendant".

Stack 3
is pages 7-8 being mailed to the Plaintiff. Bottom of page 7 is marked "Plaintiff"

All of the sheets contain the same data except the bottom of the pages are marked for who they are for.

Sorry for how long this is....I'm just trying to get as much info as possible into the original post.

So if I have a datafile with 80 court records I will have:
160 Carbonless sheets in stack 1
80 Plain paper sheets in stack 2
80 Plain paper sheets in stack 3

How can I get the FusionPro to compose the datafile multiple times?

Thanks in advance everyone!

[crabtreed]

Troy
I have solution to the problem you posted. This will go through the data as an external data source. It will parse and array for the Page Usage and an array for file names that is in Global Variables.

Using;


ON JOB START
pages = ['CourtFNCR' , 'CourtBkNCR' , 'DefFNCR' , 'DefBkNCR' , 'DefFPln' , 'DefBkPln' , 'DefBkPln' , 'PlntfFPln' , 'PlntfBkPln'];
jobs = ['Court', 'Def', 'Plain'];
FusionPro.Composition.composeAllRecords = false;
FusionPro.Composition.endRecordNumber = pages.length;
GLOBALS
pages = ['CourtFNCR' , 'CourtBkNCR' , 'DefFNCR' , 'DefBkNCR' , 'DefFPln' , 'DefBkPln' , 'DefBkPln' , 'PlntfFPln' , 'PlntfBkPln'];
jobs = ['Court', 'Def', 'Plain'];
ON RECORD START
var ex = new ExternalDataFileEx(PrimaryInputFile(), "EXCEL");
FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordCount = ex.recordCount;
var pg = pages[FusionPro.Composition.inputRecordNumber-1]; // reads length of array pages
var jobout = jobs[FusionPro.Composition.inputRecordNumber-1]; //reads length of array jobs

var output = (jobout+ '.' + FusionPro.Composition.outputFormatExtension); //creates the pdf files for pages

for( job in jobout){
if (FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordNumber == 1)
FusionPro.Composition.OpenNewOutputFile(output);


switch (jobout){

case "Court":
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(1 , true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(2 , true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(3 , true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(4 , true);
break;
case "Def":
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(5 , true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(6 , true);
break;
case "Plain":
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(7 , true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(8 , true);
break;

}
}

[TroyM68]

Thanks Dan, that works perfectly!