Talk:Documentation/OOoAuthors User Manual/Writer Guide/Developing conditional content

• I think that the former redaction was wrong. Using a local variable is only an additional facility.

Conditions are what programmers call logical expressions. You must formulate a logical expression for each condition because a condition is always either true (met) or false (not met). You can use the same condition in many places in your document, for different types of conditional content.

To make conditional content work, you need to:

• And I proposed to change the last sentence with:

To make conditional content work, you can directly involve some database field contents into your logical expressions (and thus issue will depend on the database data only) but you can also let the condition depend on a local information that you will provide and easily change into your local Writer text. In that two steps case, you need to:

• We also need examples of direct conditions. --Nbrouard 08:49, 18 December 2008 (CET)