> Hi Ron,
>
> Try putting both of your if statements inside the same action inside the submission.  So:
>
> <submission>
> <xforms:action ev:event="xforms-submit-done">
> <xforms:action if="string-length(instance('submission-response')//elementValue) > 0">
> <xforms:message level="modal" ev:event="DOMActivate">Non-Empty String</xforms:message>
>         <xforms:toggle case="case-non-empty" />
> </xforms:action>
> <xforms:action if="string-length(instance('submission-response')//elementValue) = 0">
> <xforms:message level="modal" ev:event="DOMActivate">Empty String</xforms:message>
> <xforms:toggle case="case-empty" ev:event="DOMActivate" />
> </xforms:action>
> </xforms:action>
> </submission>
>
> And when the xforms-submit-done action fires, the if statements will be evaluated and only the contents of the correct statement should fire.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Stephanie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Peterson [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 7:19 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] conditional action on submission response
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to conditionally respond to a submission response according to the value of one of the response instance's element values.  This is what I have now, but the second action is the only one that ever fires.
> (I'm 99% certain that I am in fact sometimes returning a non-empty elementValue - I'm going to trace that to be sure later today..)
>
>       <xforms:action ev:event="xforms-submit-done"
>                      observer="mysubmission"
>                     if="string-length(instance('submission-response')//elementValue) > 0">>
>         <xforms:message level="modal" ev:event="DOMActivate">Non-Empty String</xforms:message>
>         <xforms:toggle case="case-non-empty" />
>       </xforms:action>
>
>       <xforms:action ev:event="xforms-submit-done"
>                      observer="mysubmission"
>                      if="string-length(instance('submission-response')//elementValue) = 0">
>         <xforms:message level="modal" ev:event="DOMActivate">Empty String</xforms:message>
>         <xforms:toggle case="case-empty" ev:event="DOMActivate" />
>       </xforms:action>
>
> So I guess I'm wondering why this doesn't work.  I'm also curious how other folks would do this.  Is there a common pattern for doing an 'else' action, or is the pattern to simply create two mutually exclusive 'if' actions?
>
> TIA
>
> -Ron-