Conditional Logic Merge

[nisiwi]

Hello Community,

I've been using the beta version of publisher with mail merge reasonably successfully, however I've discovered a requirement I don't believe is currently supported which is conditional logic merging.

What I want to do is merge different content based on the value of another field - which is acting like a switch.

i.e. if field value Xi = "yes" then field value Xo = Yi1 otherwise Yi2.

This could be expanded even further to allow different master pages (templates) to be applied during the merge etc.

Could this be supported ?

Thanks,

Nic

[AlanPickup]

I would have thought this would be a function to do in the spreadsheet rather than publisher because it is going to get the first value from the spreadsheet or list?

[nisiwi]

Yes, that is an option and works to a point.

This requires most of the textual content to be held in excel, which isn't a good text editor (yes, you can copy and paste from word).  When changes to be merged are significant like a whole paragraph disappears leaving a large white space it does impact the design.

What I'm looking for is a way to conditionally control the design and content such as changing the master template or font size etc.

[dominik]

5 hours ago, nisiwi said:

What I'm looking for is a way to conditionally control the design and content such as changing the master template or font size etc.

Basically this is a good and logical idea. But data merge is currently not there, yet.

d.