{"id":3576,"date":"2015-10-28T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2021-06-22T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:56:18","slug":"create-a-multi-line-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/create-a-multi-line-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a multi-line variable"},"content":{"rendered":"

A multi-line variable is a variable of two or more lines of text. For example, the following address can be defined as a multi-line variable:<\/p>\n

     Minisoft, Inc.\n     1024 First Street\n     Snohomish, WA 98290<\/pre>\n
If you use multiple variables or multiple constants to place consecutive lines of text, you must create a rule to place each line. Instead of creating a variable and corresponding rule for each line, create one variable that uses a concatenate function for each line. You can use one variable and one rule to place multiple lines of text. Complete the following steps to create a multi-line variable:<\/p>\n
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  1. Right click the form > Add Variable > By position and create a variable. Click OK.<\/li>\n
  2. Right click the variable > Add Function > Concatenate.<\/li>\n
  3. Type the text of the line, click Append newline, and click OK.<\/li>\n
  4. Repeat s\"Concatenate\"teps 2 and 3 for each line you want to create.<\/li>\n
  5. Right click the form > Add Rule > Place Text.<\/li>\n
  6. Select the variable you created in Step 1 and click OK.<\/li>\n
  7. Click Enable wordwrap.<\/li>\n
  8. In Line Width, specify a length in decipoints that is longer than the longest line of text.<\/li>\n
  9. Change other settings according to your project requirements.<\/li>\n
  10. Click OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    You must check both App\"PlaceText\"end newline<\/em> in Step 3 and Enable wordwrap<\/em> in Step 7 for the lines to print correctly.<\/p>\n
    Line Spacing: The default value is 0, which means the lines use the same line spacing that the form uses. If you use a different font for this text, the line spacing might require adjustment. The number is the number of decipoints for each line of text. A font size of 9 points should have at least 90 decipoints per line. A number larger than this will add white space between lines of text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    A multi-line variable is a variable of two or more lines of text. For example, the following address can be defined as a multi-line variable: Minisoft, Inc. 1024 First Street Snohomish, WA 98290 If you use multiple variables or multiple constants to place consecutive lines of text, you must create a rule to place each line. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,10],"tags":[47,702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9326,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/9326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}