Hello,
Am trying to create a conditional replacement for the first time. I want a card to be created only if the “FrenchEnable” field is NOT empty. Could you let me know what I’m doing wrong? Thanks a lot.
Adam
edit: I miss read, nevermind this comment
Your template looks fine and should work.
See https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/templates/generation?id=conditional-replacement
Hello,
Thanks for your reply but it’s not working. Only one card should be generated because only one “frenchEnable” field is NOT empty in the whole deck; I’m getting 3,000 cards though. Any ideas?
Cheers
Adam
If you want the cards to be generated when frenchEnable is empty, then you should change {{#frenchEnable}} to {{^frenchEnable}}.
I understood that you want to generate the Card 2 cards when the field is not empty, which what your template should do.
Note that you’ll need to upgrade to the latest Anki version for that to work.
https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/templates/generation?id=limitations-in-older-anki-versions
Thanks again for your time.
In fact this deck is for French students who are advanced learners of English and want an all-in-English deck (term on front, definition in English on back). However, they would also like French equivalents for a relatively small number of terms. For these specific Notes I want to conditionally generate Cards (card 2) and put them in a specific deck. As far as I can gather the initial solution (“FrenchEnable” is NOT empty) should generate the card. I hope that helps and would welcome any suggestions. Once again, many thanks (and thanks to Damien too)
The # conditional your are using is the way to go. It should work. Moreover, if you want the cards to be in a different deck, you can use the deck override functionality.
Since it’s not working for you, I suggest you try with the latest Anki version. If you can still reproduce it in 2.1.30, please share a deck with a few cards so we can try to reproduce it using your exact data.