Help with code in a Control script

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1

Hi - I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have a template with 8 print sections (letters) and based on certain criteria in the data depends on which letter needs to print. It is really rather simple. However, I have this one condition that doesn’t seem to be working. I have tried to several different ways. Currently it looks like this,

if (record.fields[“IRAIND”]==“X” && record.fields[“ST”] !=“PR” && (record.fields[“PLAN”] != “840312” || record.fields[“PLAN”] != “845712”)){
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.English.enabled = true;
}

My looks like this -

IRAIND = X
ST = MA
PLAN = 840312

My data does not meet this criteria as the PLAN is equal to 840312 so it should NOT be printing and it does. What am I missing here? I tried reversing the condition and still doesn’t work. Please help. Seems so simple.

Thank You

2

The section first needs to be disabled before trying to enable it using the condition.

merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.English.enabled = false;

If that still doesn’t work, can you paste the whole control script here?

3

Ok - yes - I did disable it. Here is a copy of what I have so far. I do have a couple more conditions to go but I test as I add a condition. It won’t work even if it is the only condition here.

var English = merge.template.contexts.Print.sections[“English”];
var TaftHartley = merge.template.contexts.Print.sections[“TaftHartley”];
var Plan606612 = merge.template.contexts.Print.sections[“Plan606612”];
var Plan8403 = merge.template.contexts.Print.sections[“Plan8403_8457”];
var IRA = merge.template.contexts.Print.sections[“IRA”];
var Select = merge.template.contexts.Print.sections[“IRASelect”];
var AutoRO = merge.template.contexts.Print.sections[“IRAAutoRoll”];
var VEBA = merge.template.contexts.Print.sections[“VEBA”];
var Green = merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections[“GoGreen”];

merge.template.contexts.Print.sections.English.enabled = false;
merge.template.contexts.Print.sections.TaftHartley.enabled = false;
merge.template.contexts.Print.sections.Plan606612.enabled = false;
merge.template.contexts.Print.sections.PLAN8403_8457.enabled = false;
merge.template.contexts.Print.sections.IRA.enabled = false;
merge.template.contexts.Print.sections.IRASelect.enabled = false;
merge.template.contexts.Print.sections.IRAAutoROll.enabled = false;
merge.template.contexts.Print.sections.VEBA.enabled = false;
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.GoGreen.enabled = false;

if (record.fields[“IRAIND”]==“X” && record.fields[“ST”] !=“PR” && (record.fields[“PLAN”]!= “840312” || record.fields[“PLAN”]!= “845712”)){
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.English.enabled = true;
}
if (record.fields[“IRAIND”]==“T”){
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.TaftHartley.enabled = true;
}
if (record.fields[“PLAN”]==“606612”){
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.Plan606612.enabled = true;
}
if (record.fields[“PLAN”]==“840312” || record.fields[“PLAN”]==“845712”){
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.Plan8403_8457.enabled = true;
}
if (record.fields[“IRAIND”]==“V”){
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.VEBA.enabled = true;
}
if (record.fields[“PLAN”]== “800014” || record.fields[“PLAN”] >= “860001” && record.fields[“PLAN”] <=“861000”){
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections.IRAAutoRoll.enabled = true;
}

4

OK, now let’s revisit the condition based on the values provided:

IRAIND = X
ST = MA
PLAN = 840312

if (
record.fields[“IRAIND”]==“X” &&
record.fields[“ST”] !=“PR”
&&
(
record.fields[“PLAN”] != “840312”
||
record.fields[“PLAN”] != “845712”)
)

As you can see the first part record.fields[“IRAIND”]==“X” && record.fields[“ST”] !=“PR” is TRUE.

Now the second part record.fields[“PLAN”] != “840312” || record.fields[“PLAN”] != “845712” __ is also TRUE because:

record.fields[“PLAN”] != “840312” is FALSE but record.fields[“PLAN”] != “845712” __ is TRUE. So the OR comination of both gives a TRUE.

What you need is replace || with && like this:

if (
record.fields[“IRAIND”]==“X” &&
record.fields[“ST”] !=“PR”
&&
(
record.fields[“PLAN”] != “840312”
&&
record.fields[“PLAN”] != “845712”)
)

5

UGH!! Thank you so much. I knew it was something simple but I couldn’t figure it out. This will save me a ton of time with the rest of the conditions also. I would have had the same issue with a couple of the other ones. I wasn’t interpreting it that way. But it makes sense. I tried it and it works great !!!