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ingrid hughes
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Conditional Text not working

Unread post by ingrid hughes »

Hello,

I am trying to output two .chm files that use many of the same topics, but not all.

The topic of concern is set to be used for build CHM.
In that topic are two lists:
The first list is set to be used for build CHM, User Defined Build 1.
The second list is set to be used for build CHM, User Defined Build 2.

In the Publish Settings, I've selected HTML Help (.chm) and User Defined Build 1. I'm expecting to only see the first list in the output. But both lists appear.

Any idea why I'm not getting what I'm expecting?
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Re: Conditional Text not working

Unread post by Tim Green »

Hi Ingrid,

The conditions use OR logic, so if you have CHM and USERX applied to a topic, then it will always be exported in CHM, because CHM is true and only ONE of the conditions needs to be true for the topic to be included.

With conditional text you can nest conditions to achieve AND logic. For example, if you use:

[IF_CHM>[IF_USERX>Text text text<ENDIF]<ENDIF]

Then the text will only be exported if both conditions are true.
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