Report Templates: Printing a section ONLY IF the answer begins with two particular characters...
I need to conditionally print some sections of the report
IF can be used on its own in feature reports to test is something contains data.
E.g.,
${if username}${username}${/}
This will only print ${username} if ${username} contains data. You can also add carriage returns within that IF statement to aid in formatting.
And finally, I'd love to print the both the scientific and common name of each species as I've described above, only I'd like to remove the parentheses and the contained alpha code.
By the sound of it, you need to collect data differently. All this data needs to be added to a CSV, and each column of that CSV should contain specific data (e.g., scientific name, common name, etc.). Then, when a selection is made, you use calculates to pull all those columns as separate items.
Under each type classification heading, I need to print only those animals within that classification
Something like this could work. Color coded for clarity.
${#wildlife_observations}${if wildlife_observed=="A"}${wildlife_observed}${/}${/}
I also need the headings for each section (amphibian, bird, etc.) to only print when there was a sighting of a species within that classification
I don't know what your data looks like, so I modelled this after how I would expect me to have set this up. But here is an example to hopefully point you in the correct direction.
For a little clarification, I would have a field outside the repeat (e.g., ${cnt_r}) that counts every time a specific species was sighted. That way, I would easily know if any birds were sighted, for example.
There is a lot going on there, and without looking at the DOCX or XLSX, it's hard to know exactly what the answer is. But hopefully this is enough for you to resolve at least one or two items for now.
