Simple repeating table

Drafting Clauses
#1

My first attempt at creating a repeating table and I’m sorry to say, it’s not going too well.

I thought I’d try a simple “appointment of officers” clause (#1112415), which would be a clause for a board consent. The clause will contain a table, with the name of the officer and his/her title. Following this help page, I set up the table as below:

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As instructed, I then went into the Advanced table and selected the “officer name” as the repeating clause:

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The officer-name datafield is of the “repeated list” type; officer-title is just text. (Originally I had set up the officer-title datafield to also be repeating, but I believe that is wrong, i.e., that there can only be one repeating datafield in the row.)

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I’m not sure what I am doing wrong here, but when I go to focus mode, I can put in two officer names, but it’s duplicating the entire clause and it’s also not giving me the opportunity to put a title in for either.

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This is one subject about which Clausebase’s usually detailed and helpful help pages are not quite as helpful as usual.

#2

Hi Kenneth,

In your scenario, you do not want the entire clause to be duplicated/repeated (as you achieved by setting “repeat clause” to “officer-name”). Instead, you only want the table row to get duplicated/repeated.

You actually don’t need to do anything special to get repeating rows — this will be automatically done once you have a repeating-list-field inside a table row. (In fact, you need to take special precautions to disable this automatic behaviour, by adding an underscoe #concept^_datafield — see the “escaping the repeating nature” section of the documentation).

So actually you are done already. When I inserted the clause you mentioned in a fresh new document, and assigned two dummy values to the repeating list (but did not set the repeating clause flag), it immediately worked:

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#3

Maarten,

I see, but it’s still not working the way I want it to, though I think it’s working as you have shown. The issue is that each officer has to have a different title. You have them both as “xxx” and that is indeed what’s happening for me. How do I have a unique title for each repeated name?

I am not able to figure it out.

#4

If each officer has to have a different title, then you need to change the officer title-datafield into a repeating list type as well — i.e. delete the current datafield and re-add it as a repeating list type.

You should think of each repeating list datafield as being a column in a table. If you require two separate columns, then you also need two different repeating datafields.

#5

I’ll try that again, but I already tried it both ways and did not get it to work. Will try again.

#6

Here’s the issue, @mtruyens : it does work with both fields being marked as repeated. However, it does not properly render in focus mode. If I go into that special datafields screen that lets you edit a table, I can see and manipulate it. See screenshots.

Not appearing in focus mode:
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But appearing here:
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