X-Author Contracts allows you to mark any or all of the rows and columns in a table as conditional. In practice, these conditions operate as filters, allowing rows and columns in the table to be conditionally shown (and populated) or hidden. When you are constructing your template, you define various condition expressions on rows and columns of a table. These conditions are then evaluated at runtime when an agreement document is generated using this template.

For example, your table consists of a 4 columns: Product Name, Quantity, List Price and Net Price. You can define a condition to show the Net Price column only when the Account Name is ABC Company.


  • Conditional Columns in a Table
    You can make columns conditional in a table when you want to remove columns that do not fit specified criteria (e.g., removing a column where a value is found or not found). 
  • Conditional Rows in a Table
    You can make rows conditional in a table when you want to remove rows that do not fit specified criteria (e.g., when quantity or net price is over a certain amount). 

You edit table conditions in X-Author from either the Navigation pane or the Properties pane of the Control Panel.