How to add conditional logic into your Scribe templates

Scribe is a smart template editor which allows you to define how a template will be rendered based on conditional logic. This article explains how to implement conditional logic in your templates.

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What is conditional logic?

Document templates often contain conditional logic which will affect how the document is rendered based on the different conditions. For example, an employment contract will vary based on whether the employee is full-time or part-time or working remotely. Instead of having multiple templates for each situation, Scribe allows you to define how the template should render in each of these situations so that it’s easier to maintain consistency between your templates. This also simplifies the management of your templates as you only need to manage one template. Finally, configuring a conditional template into a document is much easier for the users as they’ll just need to answer a conditional question as opposed to making edits to the templates themselves.

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How to introduce conditional logic in Scribe?

You’ll first need conditional fields to introduce conditional into your template. If you don’t already have one, click on the field settings icon and create a new field. When defining the new field, select radio type and specify the different options. The next step is to specify which text should be displayed when the different options are enabled. Highlight the text which should display when the first option is selected and select the field and option in the toolbar. You can then repeat for the second option: Whilst the text might appear to repeat in the Scribe template, only the selected option will be rendered in Legislate.