I have a number of help layouts. They have graphical components so am unable to create them as simple text fields/records, rather there are a number of individually numbered layouts with the various help screens. All of the help screens are named HELP_#. I will be adding to them at anytime. Each one can be individually opened via the ? on screen with a go to layout (HELP_ + get(scriptparameter))

I am trying to create a script that will dynamically loop through all of the help layouts and print/append them to a pdf.

Everything is working fine, with the exception that the go to layout step will not work. The calculation works fine (i.e HELP_02 should be the next layout) but the blimmen thing just won't go there :

Here is my script so far

Go To Layout Help01

Set Variable $$filename

Set Field [gcounter right(get(layoutname);2) + 1]

Save records as PDF $$filename

Loop

Go to Layout "Help_" & if (gcounter < "10"; "0"; "") & gcounter  **this pads the number with a 0 if less than 10**

Exit Loop if "Help_" & if (gcounter < "10"; "0"; "") & gcounter <> get(layoutname)

save records as pdf [color:red]*appended[/color]

set field gcounter right(get(layoutname); 2 + 1)

End Loop

I've also tried variations of getasnumber/getastext with no help :

So essentially the script needs to

HELP_01 *print

HELP_02 *print

HELP_03 *print

and so on, until the next number e.g HELP_04 doesn't exist so the script exits.

TIA

Try:

Go to Layout [ “HELP_01” ] 

Save Records as PDF [] 

Loop 

Exit Loop If [ IsEmpty ( FilterValues ( SerialIncrement ( Get ( LayoutName ) ; 1 ) ; LayoutNames ( Get (FileName) ) ) ) ] 

Go to Layout [ SerialIncrement ( Get ( LayoutName ) ; 1 ) ] 

Save Records as PDF [] 

End Loop 

Go to Layout [ original layout ] 

That worked beautifully. Thanks so much. Didn't know serialincrement existed.

Cheers