[sims] Formatting MERGEFIELD «periods_of_absence» in attendance letter

[123sch]

Please does anyone have any suggestions as to how i might get the merge field «periods_of_absence» to display missed lessons better than its default, Thu 16/06/16 3 or Mon 13/06/16 5 - Mon 13/06/16 6 for a range. Ideally all I want is a "P" in front of the period number, Thu 16/06/16 P3.

[vikpaw]

What if you butt the tag up against the word 'period(s)' . Works for singletons, not sure about ranges.

[123sch]

Thanks for the suggestion Sadly, if more than one lesson absence is found, it comes out like this when either text is placed directly after the field, or inserted through the /f field switch:

 

Fri 20/05/16 3

Tue 24/05/16 3 - Tue 24/05/16 4

Wed 25/05/16 4

period

 

I’ve had a hack about with numeric (\#) and date-time (\@) format switches, but I guess the data output from SIMS for «periods_of_absence» doesn’t readily fit into these categories, at least not with my superficial knowledge of trying to apply formats.