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Web.TextControl: Adaptive Merge Field Drop-down Lists

A change you might not have noticed in Web.TextControl after X14 Service Pack 1, is the adaptive display of merge fields and available tables in the drop-down lists Insert Merge Field and Insert Merge Block. Before Service Pack 1, all available tables were listed to choose merge fields from. This confused end-users as merge fields always must have a relation to the master table. And merge fields inside a merge block must be inserted relative to the merge block table. Now, after Service Pack…

Web.TextControl: Adaptive Merge Field Drop-down Lists

A change you might not have noticed in Web.TextControl after X14 Service Pack 1, is the adaptive display of merge fields and available tables in the drop-down lists Insert Merge Field and Insert Merge Block. Before Service Pack 1, all available tables were listed to choose merge fields from.

This confused end-users as merge fields always must have a relation to the master table. And merge fields inside a merge block must be inserted relative to the merge block table.

Now, after Service Pack 1, when a master table is selected, all merge fields from this master table and all related child tables and their merge fields are available:

Web.TextControl: Adaptive merge field drop-down lists

The Insert Merge Block drop-down also only contains child tables of the currently selected master table:

Web.TextControl: Adaptive merge field drop-down lists

When inserting a merge block and the current input position is inside this merge block, only merge fields of this merge block and related child tables can be added. Therefore, the drop-down lists change accordingly:

Web.TextControl: Adaptive merge field drop-down lists

This new adaptive order of merge fields allows only valid fields to be inserted according to the currently selected data source.

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Also See

This post references the following in the documentation:

  • TXTextControl.Web.TextControl Class

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