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Repeat spans

What is a repeating span?

Another important type of span, though less common than the conditional span, is the repeated span. You can use exactly the same tools to create repeated spans that you used for conditional spans. The difference in the template is purely the use of the
Repeat
 keyword in the mark-up statement.

Repeat whole number variable

The most common (and simplest) form of the repeat statement is of the general form:
Repeat
whole-number-variable
where
whole-number-variable
 is typically just a question variable asking how many of something there are, and which determines how many times the span will be repeated in the generated document.
Select the range in the template that you want to be repeated. Click the
Insert Span
 button in the
Contract Express
 ribbon tab, type:
Repeat DirectorCount
and click
Insert Rule
:
Inserting repeat span.
Typically, the questionnaire user will first be asked how many directors there are:
Inserting additional information related to repeat span.
and then, on a subsequent page or group, will be asked for the details of each individual director:
Full view of page asking for additional details.
Note that, as with all other spans, the repeat statement can be used with a mark fields and span punctuation definition so that each repetition will have punctuation applied. This would be in the general format:
[
Repeat DirectorCount Punctuation ", | and |"
{DirectorName}, ({DirectorAge}) of {DirectorLocation}{Mark}].

See Also

Repeat spans

This article applies to:

  • Product: Contract Express