Help with Dynamic field replacement

Question

Hi,
This is my problem. I have a table with two columns - PRINT , NAME.
The data in the two columns are : ("My name is <?NAME?>", "Micheal")
In BI Pub, I wrothe the dataset as " select PRINT, NAME from TABLE "
In templete builder, what should I do to get the final output as *" My name is Micheal"*
But I am getting "My name is <?NAME?>" I need to replace "<?NAME?>" with "Micheal". i.e dynamic Merge field replacement with in a field.
Hope I made it clear.....Help would be appreciated. I am a newbie here !!
Edited by: user2899051 on May 12, 2009 7:49 AM

Answer 1

You cannot parse the string as element :)
so , its not possible, you are trying to build the template from DB Table.
<?NAME?> , this syntax will be parsed by tempalte.
If you put it in String in XML. like [ MY Name is "<?NAME?>"] , it will considered as String. and not as a data element to be parsed.
Its not possible.
Instead of doing this,
<ROW>
<PRINT>Letter from</PRINT>
<TOBEPRINTED>1</TOBEPRINTED>
<NAME>Canaopy</NAME>
<ADDRESS> NY</ADDRESS>
</ROW>
- <ROW>
<PRINT>Send letter to </PRINT>
<TOBEPRINTED>2</TOBEPRINTED>
<NAME>Mann</NAME>
<ADDRESS> CA</ADDRESS>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
If you can get the TOBEPRINTED column,
which indicates
what to be printed.
1- name
2- Address
we can write a if statement in template to display based on the value.
But again the position will be a problem, multiple replacement will be a problem
its like, creating the logic of display template in XML.