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wimberb
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Dec 18, 2006, 8:59 PM

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I was just wondering...is there a way to create publishing rules that are conditional upon a checkbox or some other setting while creating an article?

For instance, I might have a pull-down menu within the article creation window. The selections may be something like "Style A", "Style B", "Style C", etc. Then have a series of publishing rules, one for each style. And only the rule that matches the selected style will be applied. Can something like this be done? If so, it would open up some interesting possibilities.


ross
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Dec 20, 2006, 8:45 AM

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Re: [wimberb] Conditional Publishing Rules [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi wimberb.

Thanks for posting!

I think I see what you are aiming for here and if I am on the right track, you should be able to get something like this going.

Basically, my idea here is that you want to have the style of your article change depending on the value you select in that drop down.

What would happen is you create the drop down with several options. Then, on the article template you would have a series of template if statements that are like:

if style a selected
{
display my article the first way
}

if style b selected
{
display my article the second way
}

if style c selected
{
display my article the third way
}

and so forth. The syntax is going to look a little different obviously but that is the general idea.

Does that sound like what you are looking for? Let me know and I can go over this in more detail Smile.
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wimberb
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Dec 20, 2006, 9:15 AM

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Re: [ross] Conditional Publishing Rules [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Ross. Yes, I had considered that method. I was just hoping here was a way to do it so that different templates were selected based on the option selected. It would seem that editing individual templates to create their own individual style would be much easier than editing one very large all inclusive template.