Re: Creating a visible field with a hidden component?

Yes, the biggest issue with variable is they are not page specific so only
way I found to make a page specific variable is to embed a field on a page.
Not the best approach but only one I could find.
If anyone has other ideas I'd love to hear them.

"Peter Jamieson" <pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Understood - no further suggestions except that if you need to keep stuff
out of the way of the user you could store stuff in document variables and
limit your use of fields to storing references to those variables.
Probably lots of pain with no gain though.

Peter Jamieson

"ML" <schooner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks.

Already have used conditional headers and footers. It was too simplistic
for our needs and thus why I am trying to extend the concept. We have
too many possibilities to code them all using the conditional method. As
is with conditional we ended up with about 10-12 combinations for 2
separate fields but now we have even more, plus we also need to handle
freeform text values that a user may enter into our tags.

"Peter Jamieson" <pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First, if you want a hidden component, there are various fields that do
not display a result that you could adapt. The simplest is probably SET,
e.g.

{ SET X info1 info2 info3 }

You could also try { ADDIN } or { PRIVATE }, assuming there is no reason
to believe they are being used for any other purpose.

Given the type of thing you're attempting you might find the last part
of

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Conditional_Headers_Footers.htm

useful.

Peter Jamieson


"ML" <schooner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The user will be inserting these on specific pages. When I parse for
the field I then need to determine what page it is on. So there is no
way to use a DocVariable at time of insertion because the page an item
is on may change as content is added to the document.
Basically I am creating a page level dynamic tag which is used to
insert classification markers and related information used to tag
content of a paragraph. So a given page and multiple pages may contain
multiple markers that re the same or different. When the page is
parsed I then generate a page specific docvarible, which is in turn
used to set a page specific header/footer element.

"Charles Kenyon" <wordfaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Use a DocVariable for the SEQ label and a DocVariable field to
incorporate it in the SEQ field. For that matter, why not simply use
document variables to hold what you are parsing for unless you need it
in a particular place in the document body?
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"ML" <schooner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well considering the SEQ part needs to be dynamic the autotext
approach is not an option.

"Charles Kenyon" <wordfaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The easiest way to insert nested fields is to create them manually
rather than through code and then save them as AutoText. To insert
the field using code, you then insert the AutoText entry.
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"ML" <schooner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need to create a field that will be inserted via VBA code. This
will be made up of nested fields. The outer field will use a Quote
field with a visible text element that will show in the document.
Along with this is a nested field which contains tags that I will
parse for with another macro. The issue is I need to make the second
nested field not visible and also easily parsable in code. I'm
thinking of storing a delimited string in this field to contain the
various elements need later.

The only way I can think to do this is using the SEQ field with the
\h. Is this the only/best approach?

Here is what I want or similar:

{ QUOTE (CAUKEO) { SEQ AA-BB-CCCC \h } }

So later on I want to parse out the SEQ field associated with the
QUOTE and based on what it contains (i.e. does it include AA
then..) do something in the macro.

Any thoughts or insight on this approach?

















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