Condition Step Properties
Description
This subsection is collapsed by default in the interface, to allow
more screen space be given to other important parts.
Name: The name of the step.
This name will be displayed on top of the step's icon in the Steps
pane.
Comments: The text entered
here gives more details on the step and will be displayed in the tooltip
appearing when hovering over the step in the Steps
pane.
Rule Tree
The Rule tree subsection displays the full combination rules (defined below under Condition) as a tree,
which gives an overview of how the conditions work together as well as
the result for each of these conditions for the current record or iteration.
Condition
First, the Condition List displays
the conditions in list form, instead of the tree form above. Three buttons
are available next to the list:
- Add condition: Click
to create a new condition in the list. This will always branch the
current condition as an "AND" operator.
- Delete condition: Delete
the currently selected condition.
- To rename a Condition, double click on its name from the Rule tree subsection .
Conditions are made by comparison of two operands using a specific
Operator.
Both the Left and Right operands have the same properties.
- Based On:
- Position: The data
in the specified position for the comparison.
- Left (Txt and PDF only): The start
position for the data selection. Note that conditions are
done on the current line, either the current cursor position,
or the current line in a Repeat step.
- Right (Txt and PDF only): The end
position for the data selection.
- Height (Txt and PDF only): The height
of the selection box.
- Column (CSV and Database only): Drop-down listing all fields in the , of which the value will be used.
- XPath (XML only): The path to the XML field that is extracted.
- Top offset: The
vertical offset from the current pointer location in the Data Sample ().
- Use Selection:
Click to use the value of the current data selection for the
extraction.
- Trim: Select to
trim empty characters at the beginning or the end of the field.
- Value: A specified
static text value.
- Value: The text
value to use in the comparison.
- Use selected text:
Uses the text in the current data selection as the Value.
If multiple lines or elements are selected, only the first
one is used.
- Field: The contents
of a specific field in the .
- Field: The Extracted
Record field to use in the comparison.
- JavaScript : The result
of a JavaScript Expression.
- Expression: The
JavaScript line that is evaluated. Note that the last value
attribution to a variable is the one used as a result of the
expression.
- Use JavaScript Editor:
Click to display the Edit
Script dialog.
- Use selected text:
Inserts the text in the current data selection in the JavaScript
Expression. If multiple lines or elements are selected, only
the first one is used.
- Data Property: The
value of a data-level property set in the Preprocessor Step.
- Record Property: One of the local variables that you can create and that are reset for each document as opposed to data variables that are global because they are initialized only once at the beginning of each job.
- Automation Property:
The current value of a Document-level property set in the Preprocessor Step.
- Extractor Property:
The value of an internal extractor variable:
- Counter: The value
of the current counter iteration in a Repeat
step.
- Vertical Position:
The current vertical position on the page, either in Measure
(PDF) or Line (Text and CSV).
Operators:- is equal to: The two
specified value are identical for the condition to be True.
- contains: The first
specified value contains the second one for the condition to be
True.
- is less than: The
first specified value is smaller, numerically, than the second
value for the condition to be True.
- is greater than: The
first specified value is larger, numerically, than the second
value for the condition to be True.
- is empty: The first
specified value is empty. With this operator, there is no second
value.
- Invert condition: Inverts
the result of the condition. For instance, is empty becomes is not empty.
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