Conditional Pagebreaks in Mailmerge

[Archie]

Hello, I'm new to mailmerge and I'm trying to print a documents and add a Pagebreak under program control.
I tried writing the Formfeed character (ascii "12") into the document but this has no effect.

I read elsewhere that I can add something like the below in the template:

{IF {Mergefield Pagebreak} = "True" "pagebreak here"}

I actually typed this into the "Field code":
IF {MERGEFIELD Pagebreak} = "True" "x" ""

Hoping that I'd be able to "Inset a pagebreak" manually hoping that on on returning to the document I'd see an "x" that I could replace with a pagebreak, but instead I see
"Pagebreak}"

no longer <<Pagebreak>> as it was when it was a simple "mergeField"

Perhasp all I need is some tuition in creating merge templates...so can either somebody tell me where to go, or what to do?

Thanks

 

[Archie]

OK, managed to do this by playing with the syntax a little....and just in case somebody else comes along with the same level of knowledge & a similar requirement...

In the program, I write either a null or a space into the mergefield.

In the template, all curly brackets created by typing Ctrl F9.
Codes were made visible/invisible by toggling via Alt F9).

I added the Mergefield "Pagebreak" with the following:

{MERGEFIELD Pagebreak}

and the following code compares the mergefield "Pagebreak" with a space (" ") & if it finds it, prints a formfeed (QUOTE 12) else prints NULL - i.e. Syntax: IF condition truechar falsechar:

{IF {MERGEFIELD Pagebreak} = " " "{QUOTE 12}" ""}

I chose to print the formfeed depending on a value of space or null because I needed a non-printing character...perhaps I could have defined a field so that it doesn't print in any case?

 

[macropod]

Using {QUOTE 12} is fairly conventional, though you could insert an actual page break or next page section break into your field code instead. FWIW, your existing field code could be reduced to:
{IF{MERGEFIELD Pagebreak}= " " {QUOTE 12}}
Without knowing more about why you're using such a field, though, it's impossible to advise more on your 'perhaps I could have defined a field so that it doesn't print in any case' question.