Photo vs. No Photo on a business card

[EricC]

I have a business card I want to upload to my printOne site.

 

There are two versions of the business card - one with a photo, and one WITHOUT.

 

I need to write a rule that does the following:

 

If the website user has uploaded a picture, then SUPPRESS a text box.

 

The user can upload his/her photo (optional)

OR

The user can enter some text.

 

The text will appear in the same location as the photo, so it's an "either / or" thing ... if the customer uploads a photo then EVEN IF he/she enters some text into this field, the text is suppressed BECAUSE the user uploaded a photo.

 

make sense?

 

I already know how to write an if/then statement that says:

if 'something' = 'x' then return ""; (i.e. return nothing)

 

but can that 'something' be a photo that the customer has uploaded?

[Jeff Berry]

Hi Eric,

I know its been almost three years since this was posted but did you ever find a way to accomplish this?

 

Thanks,

Jeff

[Dan Korn]

Just place a graphic frame and a text frame in the same position, and have each one populate whatever it has. The empty one won't show up. You can write a rule like this for the text frame:

if (Field("YourGraphicField"))
   return "";
//else
return Field("YourTextField");

Or, you could name the text frame and do this in OnRecordStart:

FindTextFrame("TextFrameName").suppress[b] = [/b]!!Field("YourGraphicField");

[esmith]

Or, you could name the text frame and do this in OnRecordStart:

FindTextFrame("TextFrameName").suppress[b] = [/b]!!Field("YourGraphicField");

Can you explain what the double exclamation is doing in layman's terms? I googled it and read about booleans and double inverting, but I'm not getting how that is being applied in this example.

[Dan Korn]

Can you explain what the double exclamation is doing in layman's terms? I googled it and read about booleans and double inverting, but I'm not getting how that is being applied in this example.

The ! (not) operator converts its operand to a Boolean (true/false) value. In JavaScript, anything can be converted to Boolean. In this case, the Field function always returns a String, and the rules for converting a string to Boolean state that an empty string becomes False, and a non-empty string becomes True. The second ! (not) operator inverts the value, so that if the original operand is empty, you get False. Basically the !! operator on a string is asking: Is the string non-empty? And by extension, is the field value non-empty? If so, we suppress the frame.