Mergefield nested if problem

[Matthew Loraditch]

All,
I am working on a mergefield that displays a picture based on a merged
field's value.
The original i got had nested ifs and I am told it can go up to 10. I tried
to add 1 and it does not work (I added "test1")
What am I doing wrong? I think i must be missing an extra " or }, but am not
sure, if you are willing I can email or post the files somewhere for you to
take a look at
Thanks!!
Matthew Loraditch

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Show us the field construction that you are using.

To make it easy to get it into a post, see the following page of fellow MVP
Graham Mayor's website:

http://www.gmayor.com/export_field.htm

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[Matthew Loraditch]

Original:
{ IF { MERGEFIELD SLSP1 \* MERGEFORMAT } = "allison" "pictures1" { IF {
MERGEFIELD SLSP1 \* MERGEFORMAT } = "mark" "picture2" { IF { MERGEFIELD
SLSP1 \* MERGEFORMAT } = "william" "picture3" ""} } }

My Version:
{ IF { MERGEFIELD SLSP1 \* MERGEFORMAT } = "allison" "pictures1" { IF {
MERGEFIELD SLSP1 \* MERGEFORMAT } = "mark" "picture2" { IF { MERGEFIELD
SLSP1 \* MERGEFORMAT } = "william" "picture3" { IF { MERGEFIELD SLSP1 \*
MERGEFORMAT } = "william2" "picture4" ""} } } }

picturex is an image in the actual doc, up to william and picture 3 is the
original code, the william2 is my addition that doesn't work right, i need
up to 12 ifs for different people

Thanks for the help!
-matthew

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I would not try and do it that way. You should add a field to the data
source that contains the filename of the picture that you want to include
for each record.

See the "Graphics from data base" item under the "Special merges" section of
fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm


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Hope this helps.

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[Graham Mayor]

I agree with Doug. The simplest way to do this would be to rename your
pictures (or copy your pictures and name them) to match the names of your
characters eg allison.jpg mark.jpg etc. Then you don't need a conditional
field of any kind. Use instead

{INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Path\\{MERGEFIELD SLSP}.jpg"}

The mergefield switches are in any case superfluous (and would be better
replaced by a lower case switch to ensure that the condition always matches
the data.

Had you wanted to retain the original names, there is no need to nest the
fields. Use a series of fields on the same line eg

{IF { MERGEFIELD SLSP1 \*Lower} = "allison" "{INCLUDEPICTURE
"c:\\path\\picture1.jpg"}"}{IF { MERGEFIELD SLSP1 \*Lower} = "mark"
"{INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\path\\picture2.jpg"}"}{IF { MERGEFIELD SLSP1 \*Lower}
= "william" "{INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\path\\picture3.jpg"}"}{IF { MERGEFIELD
SLSP1 \*Lower} = "william2" "{INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\path\\picture4.jpg"}"}

See http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm

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[matthew loraditch]

Doug,
Is there a way to see what path the merge is constructing? I am getting red
x images, and I want to see what I am doing wrong.
Thanks!

 

[Graham Mayor]

Alt F9 will show the field construction. You need to merge to a new
document, select all (CTL+A) then F9 to update the fields.

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