WebMerge WM-IndexLabel Question

[rick]

I've read the Help for this, but can't make it work. I have some code (see below), where I want to write the name of a manufacturer ONE TIME, no matter how many times it's in the file (which is sorted by manufacturer). That works fine. However, for every time the manufacturer is the same as the prior one, I get a blank line. I know that's what it's doing since if there are 20 records I get twice as much blank space as ten records. There are thousands of records in the file, but only about a hundred manufacturers.

I've tried [WM-Record] before the WM-IndexLabel, I've tried having the WM-IndexLabel right before the WM-Record, as mentioned in the help. Nothing works...

Example:
[WM-Record][WM-IndexLabel: MANUFACTURER][WM-Field: MANUFACTURER][/WMIndexLabel][/WM-Record]

[FourthWorld]

If I understand this correctly, removing the return character between the "[/WMIndexLabel]" and the "[/WM-Record]" closing tags should take care of it.

I believe what you're seeing is WebMerge faithfully reproducing anything between the WM-Record tags, which will include any white space along with visible characters.

Please keep me posted on how that works out.

[rick]

Thanks Richard.

My issue was I tried to do it with columns, and got the spaces, so I took out all the column terms to focus on getting rid of the spaces, and put in the
to get each one on its own line.

So now, with the
removed, I can use the col variable and get one on each line. Didn't realize it would be that easy. I approached it backwards. With the
removed, it became obvious to try the col variable and then I went "duh"...

Thank you.

[FourthWorld]

Happy to help. Not all questions about WebMerge are answered so easily, but you'd be surprised how often I hear "Didn't realize it would be that easy."