New member to this forum, but longtime prepress operator with several years SmartStream Designer experience (more heavily over this past year).
The challenge before me today is to apply a style rule to variable text that is within a Dynamic Table. There are multiple rows per record in the database file, so I am using a Dynamic Table with 1 row and 4 columns, and since each record can have 1 or more row in the data, the table has the corresponding number of rows (this part works great).
The problem is that SmartStream will only consider the first row of a record when applying a rule within the table. In the attached screenshot, notice the checkmark and exclamation icons that are green. My style rule states that if the value of the icon field returns the exclamation the color changes to red (I can make this rule work perfectly in other documents that do not use dynamic tables). It appears that SmartStream only considers the first row when applying the rule, rather than considering each row independently.
Simple text rules exhibit the same behavior, but I was able to work around that by changing the data to return what I want rather than relying on a rule to do it.
Any thoughts or help is appreciated. I'm running SmartStream Designer 6.1 i52 & InDesign CS6 on Mac and Windows.
The challenge before me today is to apply a style rule to variable text that is within a Dynamic Table. There are multiple rows per record in the database file, so I am using a Dynamic Table with 1 row and 4 columns, and since each record can have 1 or more row in the data, the table has the corresponding number of rows (this part works great).
The problem is that SmartStream will only consider the first row of a record when applying a rule within the table. In the attached screenshot, notice the checkmark and exclamation icons that are green. My style rule states that if the value of the icon field returns the exclamation the color changes to red (I can make this rule work perfectly in other documents that do not use dynamic tables). It appears that SmartStream only considers the first row when applying the rule, rather than considering each row independently.
Simple text rules exhibit the same behavior, but I was able to work around that by changing the data to return what I want rather than relying on a rule to do it.
Any thoughts or help is appreciated. I'm running SmartStream Designer 6.1 i52 & InDesign CS6 on Mac and Windows.