---
title: "Conditional Areas (Subareas) - Lasernet 9 Form Editor Training"
slug: "conditional-areas-subareas"
description: "You can assign a set of patterns to one Conditional Area as well as another set of patterns to another Conditional Area. Read for more information.  "
tags: ["Conditional Area", "Form Editor", "Lasernet 9 "]
updated: 2026-03-06T08:08:07Z
published: 2026-03-06T08:08:07Z
canonical: "kb.lasernetgroup.com/conditional-areas-subareas"
---

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# Conditional Areas (Subareas)

**Applies to:** Lasernet 9

You can distribute your conditional data between several Conditional Areas. By default, there always exists Default Conditional Area defined by the system, but you can also create custom Conditional Areas. You can hereafter assign a set of patterns to one Conditional Area as well as another set of patterns to another Conditional Area.

In the following picture, an additional Conditional Area is created via the **Conditional Area** dialog and contains twenty-one subareas for each page in the form. It shows how to create the Avery labels, where each subarea is a label representing a pattern with an item line.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-FXRKD4OO.png)

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## Exercise

Download and import the attached configuration called **28. Conditional Areas (Subareas) in Lasernet Developer 9**. Afterward, navigate to the **Forms** section and open the **Sample** form.

1. Right-click in the output and select **Conditional Area** in the context menu that appears to open the **Conditional Area** dialog.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/1627560724030.png)

1. Click the **Add** button in the **Areas** section.
2. In the **Edit Conditional Area** dialog, enter “Label x 6” in the **Area name** text box as well as select the **First**, **Middle**, **Last**, and **Single** checkboxes in the **Absolute** group box.
3. Set the **X** position to **5 mm**.
4. Set the **Y** position to **10 mm**.
5. Set **Width** to **90 mm**.
6. Set **Height** to **60 mm**. Once you are done, click **Ok** on both dialogs to confirm the changes.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/1627560722522.png)

A new Conditional Area appears on the top of the form on every page.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-XHYVS0F9.png)

We are now ready to move the existing conditional rearranges from the old Conditional Area to the new one. To this end, follow these steps:

1. Open the **Patterns and Rearranges** dialog and edit the properties of the **Item** pattern.
2. With the **Pattern Properties** dialog displayed, switch to the **Output** tab and set **Progress** to **0 mm** as well as clear the **Progress** is relative to the highest rearrange checkbox.
3. Select the **Page break after** checkbox.
4. Select **Label x 6** from the **Output Area** drop-down list.
5. Click **Ok** on the dialogs to confirm the changes.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/1627560722940.png)

You have moved the item lines from the Default Conditional Area to the new Conditional Area and inserted a page break after each item line. The result is there are as many output pages as item lines (five pages). To view the change, switch to the **Sample.xml** grab file tab. Here you can see five item lines in the input as well as five pages in the output.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/1627560724833.png)

1. Set the **X** position to **5 mm** and the **Y** position to **10 mm**.
2. Set the **X** position to **5 mm** and the **Y** position to **30 mm**.
3. Set the **X** position to **5 mm** and the **Y** position to **55 mm**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-MQJJPQ4G.png)

There is space on the paper to add five additional labels.

1. Edit the settings of the Conditional Area named **Label x 6**.
2. In the **Edit Conditional Area** dialog, right-click the **Area1** tab and select **Duplicate** from the drop-down box to create a new area.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/1627560721254.png)

1. Right-click in the new tab and select **Rename**. Specify the **Area2** name.
2. For the new area, set the **X** position to **105 mm**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/1627560721620.png)

1. Add **Area3**, **Area4**, **Area5** and **Area6** using the **Duplicate** feature, and set the **X** and **Y** positions as illustrated:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/1627560721898.png)

The item lines are now inserted into the labels in the same order as specified in the settings of the Conditional Area. To view the change, switch to the **Sample (Multiple Pages).xml** grab file tab.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-LU36RLRE.png)

## Attachments

- [28.-Conditional-Areas-Subareas.lnconfigx](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/28.-Conditional-Areas-Subareas.lnconfigx)