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  Posted: Sep 18, 2007 - 07:26 AM

  I'm creating a site for my mortgage company and I'm trying to use Pagesetter to display current interest rates, Rate Sheet.
  
  Is there any way after I define 1 variable of what I'll call baserate, which for example I would update each day, and publish a new document. Today I would call the baserate 6.
  
  In my template what would I need to put to add #'s to the base rate.
  For example, a cash out refinance I would need to add .5 to the base rate, and I would have many rates, but would all depend on the base rate. How can I translate this very simple math?

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• kaffeeringe.de
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 22, 2007 - 09:44 AM

  Yes. mmmh let me think
  
  1. add a new publication type called "baserate" with only that one field called "baserate"
  2. publish a new article for that pubType with your first value - say 5
  3. open the template of the other publication type - there where you need that value added
  4. Say you called that value here "int" (e.g. 3 )and you want to all your baserate (e.g. .5)to it. the value you entered as baserate is 5 so you need to combine the strings "3", "." and "5" while the numbers are contained in the variables $int and... yes - where is the baserate?
  5. fetch the baserate. As your publication in the baserate publication type was the first I assume it has the ID 1 and As you have one other publication type I assume that the baserate type has ID 2 So it's tid=2 and pid=1
  You can get all the values with this code:
  

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  <!--[ pnmodapifunc modname="pagesetter" type="user" func="get" tid=2 pid=1 assign="baserate" ]-->

  
  6. As I haven't tried what I write here, You should test if this works. I am not sure if "get" is the right API call. Add

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  <!--[ pndebug ]-->

  at the end of the template and check the popup (popupblocker!) for the baserate. When it's there I assume on the left column it says "baserate" and also on the right side "baserate"
  7. Now back to combining the strings. I am not too sure how that works, but AFAIK it should work like this:

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  <!--[ capture name="myFactor" ]--><!--[ $int ]-->.<!--[ $baserate.baserate ]--><!--[ /capture ]-->

  
  8. Now you have a new variable called "myFactor" and you can use that to make your equations. e.g.:
  

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  <!--[math equation="x*y" x=$price y=$myFactor]-->

  
  
  For more infos on the template stuff check out the Smarty manual or my pnRender CheatSheet
  
  As I said: I didn't test all this. You have to look into it yourself but I think I pointed into the direction. If you like you can buy me a small thank you
  
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