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ychow

Aug 04

Avoid single item lists

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I don't know how to avoid single item lists.

My Word document looks like this:

The bag has the following items:

(a) a pencil;

(b) a toy; and

I have IF statements running, so not all items (a) - (c) are always displayed. Therefore, it is possible to get:

The bag has the following items:

(a) a pencil.

But I want to present this as:

"The bag has a pencil."

No idea how to do this. Any suggestions? Or is it not possible?

Thank you.

2 answers0 replies

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ychow

Aug 13

Thanks Aaron.

The REPEAT is a very interesting approach. I'll give it more thought. And explore this.

I didn't use REPEAT because things like "a pencil" are sometimes one sentence, sometimes a massive paragraph. So I've had those sitting in the Word document, with IF statements.

I will also bump into an issue, of nested REPEAT as one of the sentence already relies on a REPEAT. Will weigh it up.

Aaron Agnello

Aug 12

Hey there!

I know this is coming a bit after your question. However, to answer your question:

I think the easiest way to solve a single list issue is just directly inside of the template. Example:

IF COUNT(items) = 0

The bag has no items.

ELSE IF COUNT(items) = 1

The bag has a {{items.Name}}.

ELSE

The bag has REPEAT itemsDialog:a, b and c {{items.Name}} END REPEAT.

END IF

Depending on your use case, you can do the exact same thing inside of a computation variable what has a result type of "Text".

Does that answer your question?

Best,

Aaron Agnello

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