OnRecordStart rule to preview all pages but print only one

[AFitz]

I'm hoping you can help me! I have a project where I need to be able to print a label with variable information to be adhered to a booklet we have in inventory. My end users will be ordering this "label" through our MarcomCentral store-front, but I want them to be able to preview the entire booklet at the time the variable label is composed, and then only send the label page to the printer.

So, attached is the collect file. I want the preview to display pages 1-21 and to send page 22 to the printer. (I renamed pages 21 and 22 to "Rep" and "RepLabel" in the collect.) Here's my OnRecordStart rule that I've landed on (I've tried many variations trying to get this to work):

onlinePreviewVal = FusionPro.Composition.JobOptions.IsOnlinePreview;

if (onlinePreviewVal=="Yes")
{

FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("1", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("2", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("3", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("4", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("5", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("6", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("7", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("8", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("9", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("10", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("11", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("12", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("13", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("14", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("15", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("16", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("17", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("18", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("19", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("20", true);
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("Rep", true);

}  

else 

{
 
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("RepLabel", true);

}

This still isn't resulting in what I want though. Can you help me?

FusionPro Version: VDP Producer 12.1.2

[jwhittaker]

Afritz,
You need to make all your pages unused and then change your OnRecordStart rule to this:

//access the "isOnlinePreview" property and the "isPreview" property Graphic
onlinePreviewVal = FusionPro.Composition.JobOptions.IsOnlinePreview;

if (onlinePreviewVal=="Yes")
{
for (i=1; i<=20; i++)
{
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(i, true);
}
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("Rep", true);
}
else
{
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("RepLabel", true);
}

Jon

[AFitz]

Thanks, Jon! And sorry for the delayed response, I didn't get notified that you responded.
Unfortunately, that still only resulted in the label page being previewed within the Marcom Admin tool. See revised collect attached. Did I miss something else?

Amber

Booklet with Label_Preview and Print.zip

[Dan Korn]

I think the problem is on the first line of your rule:

onlinePreviewVal = FusionPro.Composition.JobOptions.IsOnlinePreview;

It should be:

onlinePreviewVal = FusionPro.Composition.JobOptions.isOnlinePreview;

Note the lower-case "i" at the start of the property name isOnlinePreview.

Or better yet, remove that line completely and make the next line this:

if (IsOnlinePreview())

While CFG settings are case-insensitive, JavaScript properties, such as of the FusionPro.Composition.JobOptions object, are named case-sensitively, so upper-case vs. lower-case is significant.

Calling the built-in global function IsOnlinePreview() instead is better, as it insulates you from having to know the internals of the CFG file and its settings and values.

[AFitz]

Awesome!! That worked! Thank you so much! This is going to make a lot of people very happy...