odd or even records

[Danovh]

Is it possible to have 2 text frames using the same data field, but one using odd # records & the other using even # records?

[FreightTrain]

Danovh,

yes you can accomplish this. I'm guessing you want to suppress one of the frames based on the record being odd or even... At least that is what my code below is showing.

if (FusionPro.Composition.inputRecordNumber % 2) //this is validating if the record # is odd

{

FindTextFrame("Red").suppress=true;

}

 

else

{

FindTextFrame("Blue").suppress=true;

}

 

 

My template had 2 frames with the same content, one with text in red one in blue (hence the frame names), so if the record number is odd then "Red" is suppressed, if even then "Blue" is.

 

Hope this helps

[FreightTrain]

Oh and this was defined in the OnRecordStart rule.

[Danovh]

Thanks Richard, I'll try it out as soon as I get a chance and let you know how it worked.

[Danovh]

I tried the rule and get this error when I validate,"OnRecordStart, line 8: ReferenceError: FindTextFrame is not defined".

[Dan Korn]

I tried the rule and get this error when I validate,"OnRecordStart, line 8: ReferenceError: FindTextFrame is not defined".

You need to be running FusionPro 6.0 or later in order to use the JavaScript frame API. I highly recommend upgrading, as there are tons of new features in the three major revisions of FusionPro since version 5.

 

That said, you may be able to achieve something similar in FusionPro 5 with the FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage function, where you have frames bringing in completely different data on different pages.