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From: "Laurie Williams" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Date or no Date
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:55:31 -0400
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I thought of that. What I want is "as of the date of this report" or "as of
[DATE]". I guess I could change the "on an unknown date" phrase in my custom
language, but that would change it for all undated tags. Then I couldn't see
that I was missing a date for the other tags. I thought maybe I could use
the | character like you do to differentiate between past and present tense,
but that didn't seem to work. Oh well, I guess I'll have to have two roles.
Not a big problem, just trying to eliminate a step.

Thanks Lee.

On 8/3/06, Lee Hoffman <> wrote:
>
> Laurie Williams wrote:
> >I'm having a brain cramp and can't get a handle on how to do this. I want
> my
> >sentence to print the date if there is one or a phrase if there isn't.
> But
> >if I can't stop the phrase from printing whether or not there is a date.
> I
> >know I can use different roles for dated or undated. But I don't want to.
>
> Are you wanting a phrase like "on an unknown date"? If you omit the
> Conditional Markers (the angle brackets) from around the Date
> Variable of a Sentence then the above phrase will print. The
> Condition Markers tell TMG to ignore the Variable if the field is
> blank. But if the Markers are not present then TMG prints the phrase.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
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