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Smokey smith - 14 Apr 2005 12:29 GMT

I am producing a marketing letter that will go to a range of organisations. I
have a field in the data table that identified the organisationtype and use
syntax similar to
{if {MERGEFIELD organisationtype} = "school" "then insert this text" 'else
insert this text."}

When I run the merge I get the the field code but not the text I want. What
am I doing incorrectly?

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Charles Kenyon - 14 Apr 2005 13:57 GMT

Try:
{IF "{MERGEFIELD organisationtype}" = "school" "true text" "false text."}

I've found that putting the quotation marks around the merge field makes IF
fields work better. May be superstition on my part, I haven't tested it in
years. I just do it.

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>I am producing a marketing letter that will go to a range of organisations.
>I
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Peter Jamieson - 14 Apr 2005 15:36 GMT

> I've found that putting the quotation marks around the merge field makes
> IF fields work better. May be superstition on my part, I haven't tested it
> in years. I just do it.

It's a good defensive programming practice, particularly sice the "field
language" is not comprehensively specified. There are definitely occasions
when it makes a difference - there have been one or two examples in the
group in the past few months but I forget exactly what they were :-)

Peter Jamieson

> Try:
> {IF "{MERGEFIELD organisationtype}" = "school" "true text" "false text."}
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>> am I doing incorrectly?

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Peter Jamieson - 14 Apr 2005 15:34 GMT

Are the {} all the special field braces you can get by pressing ctrl-F9?

Does the result of the organisationtype MERGEFIELD exactly match "school"
(all lower case etc.) ?

Peter Jamieson

>I am producing a marketing letter that will go to a range of organisations.
>I
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> What
> am I doing incorrectly?

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Smokey smith - 14 Apr 2005 23:38 GMT

Oops no.... that solved the problem Thank you for your prompt reply

> Are the {} all the special field braces you can get by pressing ctrl-F9?
>
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> > What
> > am I doing incorrectly?

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