Can you remove a text frame if another text frame is empty?

[Ryan_B]

Is there a way to remove a text frame if another text frame is empty? I'm creating a table of contents. Under each section (chapter) I have a text frame that will be removed if that section of the book is not chosen.

[Dan Korn]

I think the simplest thing is to just have the frame that you want to "remove" call out a rule, and if you don't want anything in the frame, just have the rule return nothing.

 

Or, you can name the frame, and then in OnRecordStart, you can do this to suppress it:

FindTextFrame("YourFrameName").suppress= true;

You could do this conditionally, based on whatever condition you want, e.g.:

if (!Field("Section"))
   FindTextFrame("YourFrameName").suppress= true;

or:

FindTextFrame("YourFrameName").suppress= !Field("Section");