Help working with complicated data merge

Hello indesign community
I am and have been using CS3 for a while now and use the data merge feature with great success.
I have been asked to produce a report at the school I work in that will go out to parents which isnt to much of a problem all data will come from an assesment programme in a spreadsheet.
This is the problem the booklet contains reports on subjects and not all students do all subjects, I only want the subjects to appear that they will be taught in. Is there any way that anyone knows that I can use to drop a page if its not having any data merged into it.
Any thoughts on this matter would be usefull
Cheers

I don't hink Data Merge is sophisticated enough to skip a page if the entire record is null, but it will skip blank lines if there is a null field and nothing else on the line.

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The same code with just Shift_JIS setting in 'page' directive, worked well in IIS Server for both English and Japanese.
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Kindly answer ASAP, since the project is getting delayed.
Thanking in anticipation...
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Hi,
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might be able to give you some hints.
Daniel
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Subject: Re: Problem in working with Japanese data
Have u solved this yet, and how ?
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Hello,
We have an application, which should work for both English andJapanese
languages. Our application is working fine for English data but in case
of
Japanese, we are facing problems. In the application, there is a
language
setting, where the user can select either English or Japanese. This
changes
the language of the labels to English or Japanese. We are handling this
thru' ResourceBundles. But the data that is entered can be independent
of
this. In English setting also, the data entered or diplayed could be
Japanese. Now we are facing problems at vaious places -
1. When we enter Japanese data and save it, it gets copied into thebean
and if there is any error in the saving, the same data from bean comes
back
on the screen. This data doesn't appear properly in Japanese.
2. When we try to retrieve the already saved data from database, itdoesn't show poperly in Japanese.
We are using our own 'toUnicode' function, which converts the datato
Unicode before saving the data to database. Similarly, we have tried
different encodings like SJIS / Shift_JIS / ISO-2022-JP at various
places
i.e. in 'Page' directive or in HTML Meta tag or various combinations of
these two. Nothing is working reliably. Sometimes for some combination,
data
retained in the first case is correct but it can't be saved. Sometimes
it
works with Unicode, sometimes without Unicode. Some combination affects
the
Japanese labels as well. Otherwise the labels at least are displayed
properly.
The same code with just Shift_JIS setting in 'page' directive,worked
well in IIS Server for both English and Japanese.
What could be the problem in WebLogic? Does it matter if WL isinstalled on English or Japanese machine?
Kindly answer ASAP, since the project is getting delayed.
Thanking in anticipation...
-Medha

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Should have not used escape character for dot. placing just dot works finein decode.

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Balie Todd wrote:
I'd like to bring in midi files with information on any CC# I wanted, and then map that to any parameter of any plug-in I wanted. I couldn't figure out how to do this with the automation conversion process though.
First you cross too many questions, that's why I will try to answer one by one when have time cause they need some graphics etc.
As a beginnings have a look at this forum [LINK|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10612612&#10612612], where I show several scenarios how to manage CC7 and CC10 in the environment. It is real time processing. You can do some post processing using the Transform Window as well. Hope to have time to show you some Transform Mappers.
In addition it is possible to Map any CC# to any Plugin parameter in the Environment using transformer Mapper object ( realtime ), or using the Transform Window as well. ( If I have time later this evening will make same examples...
So I use my midi hardware controller to set a parameter to be controlled by CC#1. This works fine, and I can control the parameter with my midi controller. When I press play however, hoping that the CC#1 data in the midi file I imported will control this parameter, it doesn't seem to do it.
This is possible as well but using some Environment tricks with IAC port, a dummy "Learn" fader and probably condition transformer ( I have show many times such schemes but do not have time to search right now - hope to have time to make new one according your scenario ).
Will come back soon with more info and schemes...
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XML Query Help row with no data

declare @address table
AddressID int,
AddressType varchar(12),
Address1 varchar(20),
Address2 varchar(20),
City varchar(25),
AgentID int
insert into @address
select 1, 'Home', 'abc', 'xyz road', 'RJ', 1 union all
select 2, 'Office', 'temp', 'ppp road', 'RJ', 1 union all
select 3, 'Home', 'xxx', 'aaa road', 'NY', 2 union all
select 4, 'Office', 'ccc', 'oli Com', 'CL', 2 union all
select 5, 'Temp', 'eee', 'olkiu road', 'CL', 2 union all
select 6, 'Home', 'ttt', 'loik road', 'NY', 3
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where a.AddressID = 1
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where a.AddressID = 9
FOR XML path('Addresses')
Issue:
As you can see for second query where AddressID = 9 is not exists so xml is not generated but
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<Addresses>
<AddressID />
<AddressType />
<Address1 />
<Address2 />
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First of all: Your expectation is wrong. Sorry to say that. But your SQL statement for A.AddressID = 9 does not return a row. So no row is converted. I hope you C it: void.
From the XML viewpoint:
<Addresses>
<AddressID />
<AddressType />
<Address1 />
<Address2 />
<City />
<AgentID />
</Addresses>
is equivalent to
<Addresses />
which is equivalent to
void
You C. Sorry got infeCted some how ;)
The only meaningful result in XML would be:
<Addresses ID="1">
<AddressType>Home</AddressType>
<Address1>abc</Address1>
<Address2>xyz road</Address2>
<City>RJ</City>
<AgentID>1</AgentID>
</Addresses>
<Addresses ID="9"/>
Cause now Addresses (Really? A plural form for a single entity?) transports the meaning, well there is no data (no row) for it. We tried to find it, but we failed. In opposite to
<Addresses>
<AddressID>9</AddressID>
<AddressType />
<Address1 />
<Address2 />
<City />
<AgentID />
</Addresses>
<Addresses ID="9">
<AddressType />
<Address1 />
<Address2 />
<City />
<AgentID />
</Addresses>
Which says: well, we have a row with the ID 9, but the rest of the columns is empty.
The problem is mere semantics. But it's an important difference.
Now for your problem: Why do you expect this? Where do can you work with such a kind of informationless result?
btw, as you're using already a table variable (+1), you should also use
table value constructors like
INSERT INTO @address
VALUES ( 1, 'Home', 'abc', 'xyz road', 'RJ', 1 ),
( 2, 'Office', 'temp', 'ppp road', 'RJ', 1 ),
( 3, 'Home', 'xxx', 'aaa road', 'NY', 2 ),
( 4, 'Office', 'ccc', 'oli Com', 'CL', 2 ),
( 5, 'Temp', 'eee', 'olkiu road', 'CL', 2 ),
( 6, 'Home', 'ttt', 'loik road', 'NY', 3 );
I would use a tally table, when you really need this:
DECLARE @address TABLE
AddressID INT ,
AddressType VARCHAR(12) ,
Address1 VARCHAR(20) ,
Address2 VARCHAR(20) ,
City VARCHAR(25) ,
AgentID INT
INSERT INTO @address
VALUES ( 1, 'Home', 'abc', 'xyz road', 'RJ', 1 ),
( 2, 'Office', 'temp', 'ppp road', 'RJ', 1 ),
( 3, 'Home', 'xxx', 'aaa road', 'NY', 2 ),
( 4, 'Office', 'ccc', 'oli Com', 'CL', 2 ),
( 5, 'Temp', 'eee', 'olkiu road', 'CL', 2 ),
( 6, 'Home', 'ttt', 'loik road', 'NY', 3 );
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AS ( SELECT *
FROM ( VALUES ( 1), ( 1), ( 1), ( 1) ) Q ( n )
n2
AS ( SELECT a.n
FROM n1 a ,
n1 b ,
n1 c ,
n1 d
NumberTally
AS ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY n ) AS n
FROM n2
SELECT NT.n AS [@ID] ,
a.AddressType ,
a.Address1 ,
a.Address2 ,
a.City ,
a.AgentID
FROM NumberTally NT
LEFT JOIN @address a ON a.AddressID = NT.n
WHERE NT.n IN ( 1, 9 )
FOR XML PATH('Address');
or the void version:
DECLARE @address TABLE
AddressID INT ,
AddressType VARCHAR(12) ,
Address1 VARCHAR(20) ,
Address2 VARCHAR(20) ,
City VARCHAR(25) ,
AgentID INT
INSERT INTO @address
VALUES ( 1, 'Home', 'abc', 'xyz road', 'RJ', 1 ),
( 2, 'Office', 'temp', 'ppp road', 'RJ', 1 ),
( 3, 'Home', 'xxx', 'aaa road', 'NY', 2 ),
( 4, 'Office', 'ccc', 'oli Com', 'CL', 2 ),
( 5, 'Temp', 'eee', 'olkiu road', 'CL', 2 ),
( 6, 'Home', 'ttt', 'loik road', 'NY', 3 );
WITH n1
AS ( SELECT *
FROM ( VALUES ( 1), ( 1), ( 1), ( 1) ) Q ( n )
n2
AS ( SELECT a.n
FROM n1 a ,
n1 b ,
n1 c ,
n1 d
NumberTally
AS ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY n ) AS n
FROM n2
SELECT a.AddressID AS [@ID] ,
a.AddressType ,
a.Address1 ,
a.Address2 ,
a.City ,
a.AgentID
FROM NumberTally NT
LEFT JOIN @address a ON a.AddressID = NT.n
WHERE NT.n IN ( 1, 9 )
FOR XML PATH('Address');

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