How do I conditionalize a background image?

[chuck_agari]

I have a page layout where I want to conditionalize all the images. I was able to successfully do so for the images in the header and footer, but not for the image that I used for the page background.

This is the code:

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<Page Width="800" Height="800" Padding="20px" PageSize="Letter" PageType="first" PaddingLeft="1in" PaddingRight="1in" PaddingTop="1in" PaddingBottom="1in" Orientation="portrait" BleedBottom="0.5in" BleedLeft="0.5in" BleedTop="0.5in" BleedRight="0.5in" BackgroundImage="../Images/Agari_data_swoosh.png" BackgroundRepeat="no-repeat" BackgroundPositionX="0" BackgroundPositionY="bottom">
        <Frame X="-95px" Y="-96px" Width="8.5in" Height="1.385417in" Flow="header" Right="-97px" Bottom="827px" Anchors="">
            <Content>
                <xhtml:html xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
                    <xhtml:body>
                        <xhtml:img xhtml:src="../Images/Agari_header.png" MadCap:mediastyle="@media print { width: 8.5in;max-width: 8.5in; }" xhtml:style="border-left-style: none;border-left-width: 1px;border-left-color: #f68d39;border-right-style: none;border-right-width: 1px;border-right-color: #f68d39;border-top-style: none;border-top-width: 1px;border-top-color: #f68d39;border-bottom-style: none;border-bottom-width: 1px;border-bottom-color: #f68d39;" MadCap:conditions="Agari.Agari Only" xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" />
                    </xhtml:body>
                </xhtml:html>
            </Content>
        </Frame>
        <Frame X="0px" Y="48px" Width="624px" Height="569px" Flow="body" Right="0px" Bottom="247px" />
        <Frame X="-96px" Y="9.625in" Width="8.5in" Height="0.3541667in" Flow="footer" Right="-96px" Bottom="-94px" Anchors="">
            <Content>
                <xhtml:html xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
                    <xhtml:body>
                        <xhtml:img xhtml:src="../Images/Agari_footer.png" MadCap:mediastyle="@media print { width: 8.5in;max-width: 8.50in; }" xhtml:style="border-left-style: none;border-left-width: 1px;border-left-color: #f68d39;border-right-style: none;border-right-width: 1px;border-right-color: #f68d39;border-top-style: none;border-top-width: 1px;border-top-color: #f68d39;border-bottom-style: none;border-bottom-width: 1px;border-bottom-color: #f68d39;" MadCap:conditions="Agari.Agari Only" xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" />
                    </xhtml:body>
                </xhtml:html>
            </Content>
        </Frame>
    </Page>

I wasn't able to do this in the Flare UI, so I took a look at the code. the background image is an attribute of the Page element. Because MadCap:conditions is also an applied attribute, I can't just add it ti the Page element. I don't think I can use a span element in an element's attribute list, like this:

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<span MadCap:conditions="Agari.Agari Only">BackgroundImage="../Images/Agari_data_swoosh.png"</span>

Or can I? If not, is there a way to conditionalize the background image in a page layout?

[Psider]

Yeah, you can't put a span in the attributes as that wouldn't be valid xml.

Thought experiment: mc-conditions in the style attribute?

[chuck_agari]

Yeah, you can't put a span in the attributes as that wouldn't be valid xml.

Thought experiment: mc-conditions in the style attribute?

Sorry, I'm confused. What style attribute?

[SteveS]

Left field thought...

...apply the condition to the image in the images folder. I seem to recall it worked in an early version of Flare.

[Psider]

Yeah, you can't put a span in the attributes as that wouldn't be valid xml.

Thought experiment: mc-conditions in the style attribute?

Like this. I'm not sure it will work, but it is a valid entry for MC CSS files, so worth a try.

<xhtml:img xhtml:src="../Images/Agari_footer.png" MadCap:mediastyle="@media print { width: 8.5in;max-width: 8.50in; }" xhtml:style="border-left-style: none;border-left-width: 1px;border-left-color: #f68d39;border-right-style: none;border-right-width: 1px;border-right-color: #f68d39;border-top-style: none;border-top-width: 1px;border-top-color: #f68d39;border-bottom-style: none;border-bottom-width: 1px;border-bottom-color: #f68d39; mc-conditions: Agari.Agari Only;" xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" />

[chuck_agari]

Yeah, you can't put a span in the attributes as that wouldn't be valid xml.

Thought experiment: mc-conditions in the style attribute?

Like this. I'm not sure it will work, but it is a valid entry for MC CSS files, so worth a try.

<xhtml:img xhtml:src="../Images/Agari_footer.png" MadCap:mediastyle="@media print { width: 8.5in;max-width: 8.50in; }" xhtml:style="border-left-style: none;border-left-width: 1px;border-left-color: #f68d39;border-right-style: none;border-right-width: 1px;border-right-color: #f68d39;border-top-style: none;border-top-width: 1px;border-top-color: #f68d39;border-bottom-style: none;border-bottom-width: 1px;border-bottom-color: #f68d39; mc-conditions: Agari.Agari Only;" xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" />

It is the image in the page element though:

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<Page Width="800" Height="800" Padding="20px" PageSize="Letter" PageType="first" PaddingLeft="1in" PaddingRight="1in" PaddingTop="1in" PaddingBottom="1in" Orientation="portrait" BleedBottom="0.5in" BleedLeft="0.5in" BleedTop="0.5in" BleedRight="0.5in" BackgroundImage="../Images/Agari_data_swoosh.png" BackgroundRepeat="no-repeat" BackgroundPositionX="0" BackgroundPositionY="bottom">

It's the Backgroungimage attribute of the Page element. Nothing to do with the Frame elements.

[chuck_agari]

Left field thought...

...apply the condition to the image in the images folder. I seem to recall it worked in an early version of Flare.

Bingo!

Thanks.

I will add, however, being bound to source control (GitHub), this process created a .props file that Flare asked to add to source control. I did, not knowing what the correct answer would be and Flare not providing the content experience that would allow confidence that my decision was correct.

[Psider]

It's the Backgroungimage attribute of the Page element. Nothing to do with the Frame elements.

Ah, okay, I thought it was the ones that had the condition applied, but weren't working.