Does anyone have a Salutation Format recipe book? I understand the table and the documentation, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around getting what I want. Currently, if we have a household that doesn't use prefixes then the Gen Sal button is giving me just the A1 on the Sal 1 line and only the last name on the "Dear" line. I'm trying to set it so that if they have the same last name we get F1 and F2 L1 on Sal 1 and F1 and F2 on the Dear line. And if they have different last names, then F1 L1 and F2 L2 for Sal 2 and still just F1 and F2 for the Dear line. I understand how to make the prefix conditional on it appearing, but it seems like I need a second level of conditions to make this work and I'm getting an error when I try to include a second set of brackets. (And I realize this may make no sense to anyone other than me because I'm currently a bit confused about this!)
Thanks!Anne RobichauxThe Historic New Orleans Collection
Double Name LI (not 1 but the letter I - Dear field) should be set to <'F1'> and <'F2'>
Double Name L2 (sal 2) should be <'F1' > <'L1'> and <'F2' > <'L2'>
That leaves out the prefix entirely. That's where I'm getting hung up. Ideally, if we have the prefixes then it still does Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. But if we don't have them the it does John and Jane Smith.
then you have to use the semi-colon...
Tokens can be used in pairs separated by a semi-colon. The second part of the pair will be used if the first returns no value. Therefore, if the string is <'P1' ;'F1' ><'L1'>, 'Mr. Jackson' is returned if there is a prefix. If there is no prefix, then it will return "Mark Jackson".
<'P1';'F1' > <'L1'> and <'P2';'F2' > <'L2'>
I understand the semi-colon, but maybe what I'm trying to do is too complicated for this setup. What I want is either "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith" or "John and Jane."
Hi Anne,
I have been playing around with my salutations today trying to get the exact same thing. If no prefixes, then we would like first names (John and Jane) to be listed instead of full name.
If anyone knows a solution, that would be extremely helpful!
-Grant