Conditionalizing inline content

Background

Starting point

The procedure in this topic assumes Skribenta is installed and configured for normal operation, and:

You have logged into Skribenta.
You are assigned to one of the following user roles: content provider, technical writer or administrator.
You have selected the workspace you want to work in.
A content file or a configuration file is created in the workspace.
You have browsed to and opened the file in the Workspace view or the Publications view.

Your need

You need to conditionalize inline content, for example content in a title element, to be able to use the same content file for multiple publications.

The possibility

It is possible to conditionalize inline content in for example a title element using an inline-if phrase element. You can use several inline if phrase elements to conditionalize different parts of the inline content.

By using a variable in the condition, the condition can be evaluated differently depending on the variable value defined in the publication's configuration file. You can then use the same content file in multiple publications, and let the variable value control the published output.

About this task

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to conditionalize inline content in for example a title element.

The result

This is the file content before conditionalizing inline content in a title element.

This is the file content after conditionalizing inline content in a title element.

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Overall steps

Put the caret where you want to create the condition, then click Inline > Phrase > Inline-if on the top toolbar. Type the condition inside the created Inline-if phrase element.

Time

5 minutes

Procedure

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1. Make sure that the step(s) in section "Starting point" (see section "Background" above) are performed.

2. In your publication's content file, put the caret before inline content that you want to conditionalize.

3. On the top toolbar, click Inline > Phrase.

The Phrase list opens.

4. In the Phrase list, select Inline-if.

A phrase element with class inline-if is created.

5. In the phrase element, type the condition.

In this example the condition is a boolean variable.

6. In the publication's configuration file, define the boolean variable, see .

All content to the right of the inline-if phrase element is now conditionalized, unless a static true condition is inserted somewhere after.

7. If necessary, insert a static true condition after the first condition.

8. To evaluate the condition:

Publish the publication

or
Evaluate the condition directly in the content file, see .