Indesign Text in two columns and several textframes - adobe-indesign

I am importing records from a database with a plugin into one big textframe in InDesing CS6. The layout defines a textframe with 2 columns per page. The datas are addresses, sorted by country. Each country is shown as a running header in a header section.
The layout should be changed now: Per country all adresses will be in a separate textframe. Each textframe has a title, the tile of the country, spanned over the two columns. Imagine, that one page we have three countries. So the first will start with a spanned paragraph for its title. Then there are mayby four adresses in the first column and 3 in the second one.
Then we go over to the next country in the next textframe (still threaded).
My problem: How can I split one textframe in a way, that I get the layout above? We are talking about a index of 200 pages and more than 4000 addresses. Can this probabely be done by a paragraph break rule? Scripting?
Example:

Since CS5 the paragraph styles editor has a sub-panel "Span Columns". Set your country headline paragraph style to Paragraph Layout: "Span Columns", Span: "All" and you're done.
Please explain if you still need separate text frames.

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Cut off space between two fields in dynamics CRM

I've two fields on account form, one is two option(checkbox) and other is text box. As par my requirements, I've to not show the label of the checkbox but show them as simple fields without caption. I am done with it but stuck in a problem that it create a huge space between two fields, as shown in following screenshot. I would like to hear from your side to resolve this problem.
You could try this:
Set the tab to two columns, settings the first column around 5-10% (experiment with the value)
put the checkboxes in the first section, the other fields in the second one
set the first section to have 1 pixels for label width (instead of default 115)
I'm not sure how it would turn out, and would probably need some tweaking (to account for different form/window widths) but you might accomplish something close to what you need.
Another approach would be to build a custom HTML webresource, put it in an IFRAME as the only form element, and rebuild the form from scratch as you like... but it's probably best left as a last-est resort
You can convert the section from 2 columns to 4 columns, span the textbox field to 3 columns. This will reduce the checkbox field columns to 25% and textbox to 75%
This is the maximum we can do in supported way.

Push items to bottom of report

I'm trying to create a report with some controls "anchored" to the very end. The difficulty is that I can't add this to the page footer because the report could span multiple pages leaving a giant white space at the end of each report if I decide to toggle visibility. The items I have should only appear on the very last page and be positioned just above the footer.
For example, in this scenario, I need the letter's closing signature, titles, etc. positioned at the very end of the last page the report spans.
As an alternative to adding a sub report you could try the suggestion below.
It all depends on how you data is laid out in your report whether it could work for you.
If all the data required to populate the controls exists in the report dataset why not add an outer lever of grouping that encompasses the entire dataset. You could do this using a dummy column containing 1 for example.
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You can additional rows as necessary to the group footer.
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Google Spreadsheets: Working with data inserted from forms across tabs

I'm in great need of help. I've a form which asks basic questions and puts the results into rows of an existing spreadsheet.
Specific data from those responses are "promoted" to 2nd, 3rd and 4th tabs based on IF formulas on tabs 2+ checking the value of a pull down selection on in the corresponding row on each previous tab. (Waterfall)
My challenge is - forms data is inserted into a new row (Does not use existing) and if I set the pulldown value to "Approved" on the first tab, the formulas on the second tab which were contiguous now skip the row where the form data was automatically entered.
I suspect I need to learn how to properly use ArrayFormula, etc, but have not managed to fix this looking at existing examples combined with my IF statements.
Help is appreciated. Sample is here. Safe to ignore the first and last tabs.
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You can try using an open-ended range with ArrayFormula. For example, the formula on "2-Pipeline" in cell D3 could be:
=arrayformula(IF('1-IdeasReceived'!U2:U="Approved",'1-IdeasReceived'!L2:L, ))
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Since this is an ArrayFormula over column ranges, you only need it in cell D3; it will inject CONTINUE formulas down the rest of the column.
Warning: Your spreadsheet is combining dynamic row content (e.g. pulled from another sheet) with static content (e.g. "Environment, Health & Safety" column on "2-Pipeline" sheet). This is bound to result in misalignment if rows are added or deleted in the middle of the source data.

data report text box bold at runtime v.b 6.0

My Question is
i am using a table "marks" which have fields like roll_no,name,marks and i wanted to create report which should show name list in bold letters who ever scored more that 80 and underline whoever scored below 40 and all others in regular font.
problem is how to make data report text box bold or underline or regular for certain records based on the marks and where to give coding for the condition criteria.
Kindly answer
Thanks
With Regards.
K.Giridhar Rao"
To make different graphics styles into the same data report line my solution is:
1) define any graphic element into the line
2) map any element as a field of record of data report associated recordset
3) by your code, create a record for each row of report, assign a value for each field to be rendered

How do I add images plus caption and credits to a expressionengine blog posting

A blog posting (single entry page) consists of text and images.
The channel “blog” has the field group “blog_entries”. The interesting fields in the fieldgroup are "blog_body" and the three relationship fields called "image1", "image2", "image3"
The images are stored in a different channel called "images". The fieldgroup "image_entries" has a few fields. The image upload field itself, the caption, credits and a few more.
I can combine images and text via the relationship fields.
My problem is: The editor should place the image where it has to be in the content. And he should be able to choose the size of the image (should it span 4,8,or 12 columns) The example below has an image eight columns wide.
Adding an image would add the following code
<div class="eight columns picture">
<div id="copyright" class="text-right">
© Photographer name, Flickr
</div>
<img src="http://placehold.it/700x525&text=[700x525]" />
<div class="panel">
<p>I am the caption. Nulla corned beefsunt ball tip.</p>
</div>
What I want to achive is:
The editor types the text into the blog_entries field within the CP. This field is a textarea with custom HTML buttons.
After two paragraphs of writing he needs an image to ilustrate what he wrote.
He clicks on a custom HTML button,sees the related images, gets to choose the size of the image (should it span 4,8 or 12 columns) and with the next click EE integrates all the neccessary code into the entry.
So the editor has not to worry about the DIVs and all the code but can position an previously uploaded image where ever he wants in the article.
How can I achive that?
I´m not bound to do it this way. If there´s another way or a plugin to solve that problem,I´d like to hear it.
A pretty different approach but one that I've used for this sort of thing in the past is Matrix. You set up the blog_body as a matrix field which is intended to have a row added for each breakpoint in the article (a breakpoint being the insertion of an image, for example). And so the matrix might include 3 columns - one for the image, one for the image width (radio between your three different span widths, for example) and one for "paragraph content".
The challenge here though is that you're using a relationship field for the images rather than having the images as part of the blog entry. Since a relationship field is not, to the best of my knowledge, a fieldtype you can use within a matrix field, that makes it a lot tougher to take this approach. But if you are keep a fixed number of relationship fields - as you suggested, image1, image2, image3, then the first column in the matrix could simply be a radio button for the editor to choose between image1, image2 and image3 to be inserted at this breakpoint. Not a typical use of Matrix, but it would allow you to be relative object-oriented about the editor's control over the content.
Hope that idea helps or sparks new ones!
I frequently use that approach on content rich website, but I generally use default field types. Just a variant of what Jean proposed, the underlying logic stays the same.
Images and text of blogpost in same channel
Determine the min and max number of images you want per post (usually I go with 3)
Instead of just having one body field, one caption field, one image field, and 1 field for your image dimensions (I usually use P&T field), you duplicate the whole lot three times (if you went with 3 images max).
I generally only make the first text + image + image configs fields mandatory
Your clients can now "compose" their own page with one, two or three images, displayed in various ways, but will stay in the boundaries you have defined.
Hope it helps

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