As I sit here watching out my windows and seeing snow fall, in early November, I can’t but think of the “The Ice Bowl”. This obviously lead me to think the NFL’s trademark rights and how that might need to be controlled in their marketing and branding world. I’ll use that as an example today. The basic premise is that the ™ symbol should be inserted after the letters “NFL” are printed on the page.

I’ll use a combination of 2 different document actions (ReplaceText, Superscript). The project requires only one variable: Text. Text must be set as Formatted Text kind.

First, I’ll create the ReplaceText action. This action does precisely what the name suggests. It takes a character set to find, and when found replaces that text with another set of characters. In this case I’m looking for “NFL” so that I can replace it with NFL™. Here is the document action definition:

Method: ReplaceText
Arguments:
SpecName (contstant) = Text
OldCharacter (Constant) = NFL
NewCharacters (constant) = NFL™

Secondly, I’ll demonstrate the use of the Superscript action. While it’s not necessary in this example I wanted to show how it can be used, even in conjunction with another document action. Here is the document action definition:

Method: Superscript
Arguments:
SpecName (constant) = Text
Character (constant) = ™

Pretty simple example, but one that I think translates into real world project needs. I suggest you follow this up by reading on the GetPositionIndex action as well as Suffix and Prefix. They are closely related to the actions discussed in this post.

This document action chaining example can be views and downloaded at the demo site. The product is named “Documents Actions Calculations”.

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