I have a print layout that prints notes to send to my clients and includes the "Nickname" field. I would like to make the table cell conditional: if there is data in the Nickname field, print Nickname, otherwise print Firstname. I note that I can use an F-Script to populate the cell, so now I just need to know how to write the F-script! I think this is a pretty common thing for people to do so perhaps several list members would profit from the information. Thanks!

Bob

I'd like to bump this up- Here is a conditional that should work but only resolves one or the other and I'm not sure why-

nick := element valueForKeyPath:'parent.reportData.object.nickname'.
first := element valueForKeyPath:'parent.reportData.object.firstname'.


(nick length > 0) ifTrue:
[
nick.
]
ifFalse:
[
first.
]

So if there is a nickname, it will show, but does not show first name if false. Syntax passes ok, can someone at MC point out why this wouldn't work? I can reverse it as well and show what is ifFalse: but then the ifTrue: doesn't return a value..

Thanks! (And sorry Bob for the thread hijack..)

Try this...

nick := element valueForKeyPath:'parent.reportData.object.nickname'.
first := element valueForKeyPath:'parent.reportData.object.firstname'.

x := first.

( ( nick == nil ) not ) ifTrue:
[
	( nick length > 0 ) ifTrue:
	[	
		x := nick.
	].
].

x.

Nice. It really helps to see syntax in context like this..

Thank you!
-Eric