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I've looked through various questions but still haven't found an answer. I have 5 fields that I can display on a VF pdf page and want each one on a different line, but if the IF fails, I don't want a blank line, so can't just put a br at the end. It needs to be inside the IF success part where I currently have & ' '. Please help!

            {!IF(activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.DementiaBeds__c > 0,'Dementia beds: ' & TEXT(activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.DementiaBeds__c) & '  ','')} 
            {!IF(activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.HospitalBeds__c > 0,'Hospital beds: ' & TEXT(activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.HospitalBeds__c) & '  ','')} 
            {!IF(activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.VillageBeds__c > 0,'Village beds: ' & TEXT(activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.VillageBeds__c),'')}

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EDIT (from comments)

If I add:

& 'BR()'

it just displays it as

Dementia beds: 20 BR() Hospital beds: 42 Rest Home beds: 26

If I don't put quotes around it:

& BR()

It displays like this:

Dementia beds: 20_BR_ENCODED_ Hospital beds: 42 Rest Home beds: 26

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    Just add a BR() inside the IF(...)?
    – Adrian Larson ♦
    Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 21:56
  • That doesn't work - it just displays it as "Dementia beds: 20 BR() Hospital beds: 42 Rest Home beds: 26 " if I include it in quotes, or like this "Dementia beds: 20_BR_ENCODED_ Hospital beds: 42 Rest Home beds: 26" if I don't put quotes around it.
    – Irene
    Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 22:33
  • Just edited my comment Adrian to explain both...
    – Irene
    Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 22:36
  • On the VF page you will have to use escape="false" if you are going to use BR() and are using outputText
    – Eric
    Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 23:15

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Rather than trying to do everything in a large formula you can break it up into several controls.

Before:

<apex:page renderAs="PDF" standardController="Account">

    {!IF(Account.AnnualRevenue > 10,'More than 10: ' & TEXT(Account.AnnualRevenue) & BR() & '  ','')}&nbsp;
    {!IF(Account.AnnualRevenue > 20,'More than 20: ' & TEXT(Account.AnnualRevenue) & BR() & '  ','')}&nbsp;
    {!IF(Account.AnnualRevenue > 30,'More than 30: ' & TEXT(Account.AnnualRevenue) & '  ','')}

</apex:page>

After:

<apex:page renderAs="PDF" standardController="Account">

    <apex:outputText rendered="{!Account.AnnualRevenue > 10}" >More than 10: {!Account.AnnualRevenue}<br/></apex:outputText>
    <apex:outputText rendered="{!Account.AnnualRevenue > 20}" >More than 20: {!Account.AnnualRevenue}<br/></apex:outputText>
    <apex:outputText rendered="{!Account.AnnualRevenue > 30}" >More than 30: {!Account.AnnualRevenue}<br/></apex:outputText>

</apex:page>

Result:

Above the line shows the Before result and below the After result.

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    I prefer your way though as it doesn't use the "escape=false" (sorry @vorno)
    – Irene
    Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 0:25
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Pop it into an outputText tag

<apex:outputText rendered="{!activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.DementiaBeds__c > 0}" value="Dementia beds: {!activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.DementiaBeds__c}<br/>" escape="false" />
<apex:outputText rendered="{!activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.HospitalBeds__c > 0}" value="Hospital beds: {!activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.HospitalBeds__c}<br/>" escape="false" />
<apex:outputText rendered="{!activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.VillageBeds__c  > 0}" value="Village beds: {!activity.CallCycleActivity.Account__r.VillageBeds__c}<br/>" escape="false" />
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  • You don't need to add HTH to your posts. That's inherent in your attempt to answer, that you hope you are helping out. Welcome to SFSE!
    – Adrian Larson ♦
    Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 0:10
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    Good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh
    – vorno
    Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 0:18
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    Similar issue to this meta post. It's irrelevant information. Just keep in mind it's a Q&A forum. Politeness is good but putting some sort of signature on every post is just overkill and would get old really quickly if everyone did it.
    – Adrian Larson ♦
    Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 0:20

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