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SwitchtotheSourceview.Elementswithadirectlinktoadatafieldhaveadata-fieldordata-sum
attribute.
Cellswithadirectlinktoadatafieldareeditedasfollows.
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Whichdatafieldislinkedtoacellandhowthevalueisformattedcanbechangedviathe"Attrib-
utespane"onpage969.
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Anytextinthecell-includingtheplaceholder-willbereplacedwiththevalueofthedatafieldthe
cellislinkedto,whenthetemplateismergedwithdata.Tolearnhowtomix data and textin
thesecells,see"Mixingtextanddatainacellwithadirectlinktoadatafield"below.
Changing content based on a value
ChangingthecontentsofacellorrowinaDynamicTable,basedonthevalueofadatafield,requiresa
script.See"UsingscriptsinDynamicTables"onpage835.
Mixing text and data in a cell with a direct link to a data field
Bydefault,eachDynamicTablecellthathasadirectlinktoadatafieldshowsaplaceholder.For
example:@CompanyName@referstoadatafieldnamedCompanyName.However,theseplace-
holdersarenot used as selector.
Instead,ifacellhasthedata-fieldordata-sumattribute,thesoftwarewillreplacetheentire contents
ofthatcellwithavalue:thecurrentvalueofthedatafield,orarunningtotal,respectively.
(Forinformationaboutdata-attributessee:"HTML:tableelementanddata-attributes"onpage755).
Any text that was added in Design mode will disappear.
Inordertomixdataandtextinacellwithadata-attribute,youshouldremovethedata-fieldordata-
sumattribute,respectively,fromthecellitselfandthenputthatattributeonanelementinsidethecell.
Here'showtodothat.
1. IntheWorkspace,opentheDesigntab.
2. Selectthecell(see"Selectinganelement"onpage570).
3. Onthe"Attributespane"onpage969,setFieldorSumtoNone.
4. Typetextinthecell,beforeand/oraftertheplaceholder.
5. Selecttheplaceholder,right-clickitandselectWrap in Span...
6. SelectthenewSpanelement.
7. Onthe"Attributespane"onpage969,setFieldorSumtothedesireddatafield.
8. Reapplytheformatifneeded(see"FormattingvaluesinaDynamicTable"onthefacingpage).
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