Conditionalizing several block elements

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 several adjacent block elements, to be able to use the same content file for multiple publications.

The possibility

It is possible to conditionalize several adjacent block elements together by wrapping them in an if-wrapper.

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 several adjacent block elements together.

The result

This is the file content before conditionalizing two adjacent paragraph elements.

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Overall steps

Select adjacent block elements, then click Block > Wrapper > If on the top toolbar. Type the condition inside the created If wrapper title 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 file content, select several adjacent block elements that you want to conditionalize.

3. On the top toolbar, click Block > Wrapper.

The Wrapper list opens.

4. In the Wrapper list, select If.

A wrapper element with class if, and a title element are created.

5. In the title 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 in the If wrapper element is now conditionalized.

7. To evaluate the condition:

Publish the publication

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