Need help to personalize page with user name more than once.

I want to personalize some 20-30 page manuals with the users name. The name will be inserted two or more times on the same page in the same text box.


I used the following directions found in an old post by DavidS.


On the first page place an Entry Field (Ctrl+Alt+6, or menu Add > Object > Form Object > Entry Field).


Access the Properties for that field and look at the Associated Variable Name. It will be something like Entry_0001. That is the variable in which the name will be stored.


Finally, to call (use) the variable on your later pages, place a standard text box on the page, name it "user name" (for example) and then add the following Action to the same page:


On: Show

Action: Change Contents

Target: user name

New Contents: Entry_0001 (the variable in which the name is stored)


Then simply create a different text box to put the "Congratulations, " text and you should have what you're looking for.



It works, but only the user name is visible. All the other text in the box disappears.


There is one more paragraph of information that was listed below the above directions. It reads:


There is an additional way to concatenate multiple strings together, so that the "Congratulations, " and the "user name" could appear in the same text box, but I didn't know if you wanted to get that involved if you didn't need to.


I think that is the information I need. Can someone please tell me how to do this?


Thanks in advance.

Discussion (4)

Hi Gerald,


you can't type the text into the textfield itself, as this text will be replaced by using a "Change content" action.


Find attached your title with a working example.


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Tim

Hi Tim,


I'm grateful for your help but I guess I'm just too new at this to "get it."


Can I ask you to please take a look at this two page example and tell me what I'm doing wrong? I still get only the name showing in the text box.


I'd appreciate it. familyfunland.com/name_change.rar


There's no content in this site; I just use it for testing.


Thanks

The value of the textfield / entry field is completely replaced by the text / value defined in the "Change content" action. To get the whole text into the field the action should be


Action: Change content

Target: your_textfield

Text: Congratulations, VAR(Entry_0001)


You can select the variable from the list by clicking "insert variable" at the bottom of the expanded text window.


Tim

Thanks a million Tim. I really appreciate your assist on this.

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