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2013-09-23

The Expression Editor

Expressions allow you to display information in your document by using special functions, operators and conditions. By combining these features, you can manipulate data and text coming from the database and display it on the page depending on certain criteria.

The Expression Editor interface appears whenever you edit a variable by double-clicking on it in the Variables tab (see Working With Variables)

  1. Expression Edit field: Allows adding, deleting and modifying the expressions. See Building Expressions.
  2. Expression result: Checks the expression and shows the result if the expression is valid.
  3. Favorites: Allows saving the favorites expressions. See Favorite Expressions.
  4. Components: Shows the components you can use to build your expressions, such as Functions, Operators and Data Fields.
  5. Functions: Shows the functions list. See Functions Overview.
  6. Open Assistant button: Opens a new Expression Assistant window for that function. See Building Expressions.
  7. Data Fields: Shows the content of the opened database.
  8. Operators: Allows combining, comparing or modifying the value of an expression.
  9. Help text: Shows the description of the selected function.
  10. Example: Shows an example of the selected function and the result of the function when applied.

Expression texts are displayed as follows: