You should be able to look in the composition log (.msg) file and see if
there are any warnings about the page usage. You might just have a typo
in the page name.
If this logic works for the front pages:
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(Field("spanish"), true);
Then I would think that something like this would work for the back
pages:
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(
"FRONT" + Field("spanish"), true);
So, yes, you can give the pages names that match the field values and
write rules like that. However, you might want to account for a case
where the value is something else besides "YES" or "NO" (in whatever
capitalization). Therefore I still think an if/else statement is best,
so that you always get some pages out, even if the field value is not
what you're expecting.
So again, I would probably give the pages more meaningful names and use
some logic like this:
// Convenience function
function ActivatePage(pageName)
{
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(
pageName, true);
}
if (ToLower(Left(Field("SPANISH"), 1)) == "y")
{
ActivatePage("SpanishFront");
ActivatePage("SpanishBack");
}
else
{
ActivatePage("EnglishFront");
ActivatePage("EnglishBack");
}
If you still don't think you're getting the right pages, you can always
add some debugging logic to the rule, like so:
if (ToLower(Left(Field("SPANISH"), 1)) == "y")
{
Print("Using Spanish pages");
ActivatePage("SpanishFront");
ActivatePage("SpanishBack");
}
else
{
Print("Using English pages");
ActivatePage("EnglishFront");
ActivatePage("EnglishBack");
}
The Print function will output messages to your composition log (.msg)
file. If you use it like in the example above, then any warnings about
page usage will directly follow the message from the Print call, which
should make it easy to determine where the page name mismatch is
occurring. Once you have everything working, you can comment out the
debugging Print statements if you want.
Dan
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