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What is Variable Suppression in Invent? | IV_Logic_005

The next topic is variable suppression, a useful tool when you have static text associated with a variable and want the static text to match the variable's behavior. For instance, on a business card, if a phone number and its preceding "T" are in the same text field, removing the phone number variable will also remove the "T."

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The next
thing down is variable suppression.

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So this is an incredibly useful tool
if you've got static text

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associated with a variable,

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and you want the behavior of that

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static text to match
what the actual variable is doing.

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So the example I've got written in here
is if we've, let's say

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our business card again,
we've got a telephone number

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where there was also a static bit of text,
which is the T associated with it.

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Now this is kind of another way
of achieving the same behavior

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we've already seen.

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But in this case both the T and the phone
number are in the same text field.

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They're not two separate text fields.

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And what this variable suppression
way to do

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is if you get rid of the phone number
from the phone number variable,

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it will also get rid
of the static text of the T.

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Now there's a couple of different things
we can do with this.

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Let me just show you quickly
how this is configured.

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It's even easier than the one before.

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So let me go to my example product.

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So again on my reference product
I've got a few different examples of this.

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and the key thing to to note here
is that you need to have

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a, the static text and the variable
within that same text field.

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And you can still have,
you can have multiple static text

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or multiple variables
within the same text field as well.

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As you can see here.

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Now all you need to do to activate this.

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So if I go to one of my fields,

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make sure it's enabled
in the properties tab.

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And then make sure you've got this
variable suppression section enabled.

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Here.

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Now once you've got this

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enabled this three options within
you've got left.

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You've got right and you've got four.

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Now on the face of it,

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that doesn't give you a huge lot of detail
as to exactly what that does.

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So I'm on hand to show you,

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what behavior that would achieve for you.

 

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