Compressing Blank Fields

Use

With this procedure you suppress the output of data if a particular value is missing.

Prerequisites

You have created the document template and inserted the required texts, descriptor symbols, specification symbols, and parameter symbols (see Document Template Layout Editing ).

Procedure

Transferring Symbols As Control Symbols

First, you must define the symbols for which values must exist. This is so that the values of other symbols that have been defined or Microsoft Word texts are output. You can transfer these control symbols from the document template or from the symbol tree:

Transferring Symbols from the Document Template

  1. Select the required symbols of the type Specification (01) or Parameter (02) in the document template.

  2. On the Blank Compression tab page, choose with the quick info text Insert Symbol from Template below the Templ. Symbols group box .

    The selected symbols are displayed in the Templ. Symbols group box.

  3. Move the required symbols from the Templ. Symbols group box to the Control Symbols group box by double-clicking (or using with the quick info text Move to Right ).

Transferring Symbols from the Symbol Tree

  1. Select a symbol of the type Specification (01) or Parameter (02) in the symbol tree.

  2. On the Blank Compression tab page, choose with the quick info text Insert Symbol from Tree below the Control Symbols group box .

    The symbol from the symbol tree is entered in the Control Symbols group box.

    Note Note

    You can edit or delete control symbols. To do this, choose with the quick info text Edit Symbol or with the quick info text Delete Symbol below the Control Symbols group box.

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Defining Logic Conditions

Set one of the following indicators above the group box if required:

Logic Operator

Control Symbol

AND

–

OR

+

With Alternative

For example:

<13CNG000>

<13ENG000>

See also Blank Compression and Example: Blank Compression .

Inserting Blank Compression

  1. In the document template, select the symbol or text to be suppressed if no value exists for the control symbol.

  2. Choose with the quick info text Insert WWI Object in Template above the Blank Compression tab page.

    The blank compression is inserted around the selected area.

    Note Note

    Blank compression has the symbol type 13 .

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Note:

For blank compression within Microsoft Word tables that extend over a number of cells, you should note the following:

  • If the blank compression extends over whole table rows, the respective table cells are suppressed completely:

    Row 1

    <13BNG001(...)> Row 2

    Text

    ...<13ENG001>

    Row 3

Result when text is suppressed:

Row 1

Row 3

  • If blank compression only encompasses parts of table rows, only the contents of the enclosed cells are suppressed. The cells themselves are retained:

    Row 1

    Row 2

    <13BNG001(...)> Text

    ...<13ENG001>

    Row 3

Result when text is suppressed:

Row 1

Row 2

Row 3