Drop Down List Of Sub Strings
I think what I am trying to do should be simple, but it isn't working. I don't know how to program and I don't want to use any scripting. Let's say I have a short list of address: A is one full address: street, city, state, zip. I also have B, C & D. I want to create a dropdown, so that when I select A, B, C or D, the full address populates. I have created Label Object Strings, which consist of Named Sub-Strings. I would like to use the Label Object strings, because I have broken each address line into its own sub-string for each line, but I can make it work with the Named Sub-Strings. I thought that if the name of the object was the same as that in the List Item "Sub-String Value" it would work, but it doesn't. I can't make heads or tails of what I did wrong. It must be something simple I am missing, right?
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Hello Icycraft,
Could you please let me know what version, edition and build of BarTender are you working with?
On v10.1 you could get this done with our new conditional printing features. Also using layers or even templates (this last option would also be available on v10.0 of BarTender).
In all cases you would create a single named data source that will receive the data from the drop down list control, and your text objects (or layers/templates) would use it to verify if they get printed (you should configure it so that only one address gets printed per selection on the drop down list).
Let me know what version and edition you are working with so I can offer instructions in further detail.
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I am running 9.3SR2 Automation. Running an external source seems like a good idea, especially for large data. For this instance, I was hoping for something internal, because I was planning on only using four or five addresses, but over and over again.
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Hello Icycraft,
Taking a closer look at your issue, why don't you directly design the "Dropdown list" control from the user prompt to contain the full address? Note that you can specify a different value to display in the prompt and the one that will actually be loaded (example attached).
Regards.
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