Kim Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Hi all, Haven't posted in the forum in quite a while, but have always had good luck when I do. Hope you're still here and doing ok, Obi-Dan (Korn). Apologies if this is already discussed and explained somewhere I didn't find. I've got a ticket job that has a couple wrinkles. It's got four static areas and 10 areas for sequential numbering. 2 of the static areas are different size than the other 12 areas. (screen grab attached showing the areas) I'm thinking my best bet is to do a 1-up layout with 10 different variable text boxes and rules. What I'm trying to figure out is if I can do this with sequential numbering rules or if I need to just create a database file with 10 fields. It seems like there's probably an elegant rule method that could accomplish it so that's why I thought I'd post the question. I need each press sheet to contain numbers in sequence. So press sheet #1 will start with number 122750 in block #1 and count up. Then press sheet #2 will start with 122760, press sheet #3 with 122770...ending up with 2000 press sheets. So: Press Sheet #1: block #1 = 122750 block #2 = 122751 block #3 = 122752 block #4 = 122753 block #5 = 122754 block #6 = 122755 block #7 = 122756 block #8 = 122757 block #9 = 122758 block #10 = 122759 Then Press Sheet #2: block #1 = 122760 block #2 = 122761 block #3 = 122762 block #4 = 122763 block #5 = 122764 block #6 = 122765 block #7 = 122766 block #8 = 122767 block #9 = 122768 block #10 = 122769 And so on to press sheet #2000. Hope that makes sense? (see attached screen grab for a visual) I was thinking maybe I could make 10 sequential numbering rules but not sure how to make them count up properly per press sheet. Is it possible to do with a nice rule, or should I just make an excel file with 10 fields and get it to count up the numbers in the excel columns for me and be done with it? Thanks! kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
step Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 If you want to set up the template with 10 variable text frames (like your screenshot), you don't really need a data file at all. You'd set your OnJobStart Callback rule to look like this: FusionPro.Composition.composeAllRecords = false; FusionPro.Composition.endRecordNumber = 2000; // Number of press sheets Then set a global variable: var ticket = 122750; // starting ticket number Create a text rule (with "Re-evaluate this rule for every text flow" checked): return ticket++; Apply that rule to every text frame. The ticket numbers will increment in the order that the frames were created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Nice! That's exactly what I was asking for. Thanks very much! kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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