CS4: can I apply logic based on data merge?

Hello all,
I'm creating an InDesign document using CS4 that has variable text in it. Some of that variable text is "static", in that it's inserted directly from a data merge. In other cases, though, I'd like to display one block of text (I'd specify) if an element in the data merge had one value and another block of text if the data merge element had a different value. Can I do that with a script? Here's an example: in the data merge file I have a "WorkingHours" element. It can have a value of either "8-5" or "24x7". If the value is "8-5" I want to display "8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday" and if the value is "24x7" I want to display "24 hours, 7 days a week". I want the text to display in a cell in a table in my document.
If I can do this, do I just create the script, save it, then select it via the data merge panel to insert it in the cell where I want the output data to be displayed?
Thanks a lot,
Ed

EdwinJaquaAtWork wrote:
Hello all,
I'm creating an InDesign document using CS4 that has variable text in it. Some of that variable text is "static", in that it's inserted directly from a data merge. In other cases, though, I'd like to display one block of text (I'd specify) if an element in the data merge had one value and another block of text if the data merge element had a different value. Can I do that with a script? Here's an example: in the data merge file I have a "WorkingHours" element. It can have a value of either "8-5" or "24x7". If the value is "8-5" I want to display "8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday" and if the value is "24x7" I want to display "24 hours, 7 days a week". I want the text to display in a cell in a table in my document.
If I can do this, do I just create the script, save it, then select it via the data merge panel to insert it in the cell where I want the output data to be displayed?
Thanks a lot,
Ed
Hi, Ed:
It's probably more conventional to perform this kind of logic when creating the source material for the merge, However, if the text items "8-5" and "24x7" will always require the exact substitution that you describe, you can probably create a GREP paragraph style for the cells that expect the content that needs substitution. I'm not a GREPper, but perhaps a GREP guru on this forum will suggest the proper notation to make it happen...automatically, of course. The GREP action will ignore any paragraph that lacks the exact item to be substituted.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
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