Rick, Yves must have pulled that out of the archives. The date on my post asrecorded in the header info in their posted reply shows 2006! Thatwould make sense...
I did purchase FindChangeFormatsBatch from you back then, and I haveused it extensively in managing the evolution of our 36 condition tagsacross our library of several thousand pages. I like the way the script uses a user-configurable table in an FM file. I have set up several table files for various clean-up situations, and it's a real time-saver to know I can set it up once and use the various flavors I set up repeatedly, like pulling the appropriate settings just by opening the appropriate script settings file. And, I *really* love the fact that I can use the same script for similarly managing variables and tons of other formats. I set up file management books so that I can run the script once on an entire suite and remap conditions, variables, paragraph formats, character formats, etc., in one fell swoop. Definitely worth the investment. ;-) The only thing I have to be very careful about is that for any condition tags that I tell the script to delete, the script automatically makes unconditional any text currently tagged with the condition that is marked as delete. Not sure how it handles the situation of overlapping tags... So, I have to search through the book to find out whether it's in use and how before I can just delete it. In Rene's perfect world (which although it doesn't exist, would be a lovely —albeit delusional— place to abide) I think I would have an extra column in the table to allow choice of whether to make any tagged text unconditional or to delete the tagged text. Rene L. Stephenson ----- Original Message ---- From: Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Yves Barbion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Rene S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:30:34 AM Subject: Re: managing condition tags Hello All, Somehow I missed this thread. I can write a FrameScript script to do whatever you want to conditions. However, I think FindChangeFormatsBatch should delete the condition after it maps it. If you just want a straightforward "DeleteUnusedConditions" let me know and I will give you a price. Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Hi Rene and FrameUsers, > > I am also looking for a tool like this: a plug-in or Framescript to manage > condition tags at book level. > > Thanks in advance. > > Yves Barbion > Scripto > Belgium > > > > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 3:32 PM, Rene S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [...] >> >> However, I still would like to know if there's a tool by which I can >> delete >> condition tags at the book level, preferably in a batch process, and >> ideally >> providing a way to indicate whether to remap the tag, delete the tagged >> text, or convert the tagged text to unconditional text. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Rene S. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rene S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:33 PM >> To: '[email protected]' >> Subject: managing condition tags >> >> <snip> >> Is there a similar tool that will clean out the unused condition tags? If >> not, is there at least a tool, plugin, or FrameScript that can provide a >> report of all the condition tags used in the book? I think it is >> possible, >> because View > Show/Hide Conditional Text does display all the tags in >> the >> book. I can use FindChangeFormatsBatch to remap the unnecessary condition >> tags to different tags or to a single tag, but then I'd have to open each >> template file to manually delete each unnecessary condition tag, one at a >> time. </snip> >> >> -- Rene L. Stephenson Mother of 3, Wife, and Entreprenuer (see the SuperWoman cape flapping in the breeze?!) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Think of life like driving your car: the rear view mirror is very small compared to the side windows and to the front windshield where it's placed for convenience. If you spend your time watching the rear view mirror or looking over your shoulder, you'll surely wreck, because that's only helpful for going BACKWARDS, not moving forward! - Rene Stephenson ----- Original Message ---- From: Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Yves Barbion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Rene S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:30:34 AM Subject: Re: managing condition tags Hello All, Somehow I missed this thread. I can write a FrameScript script to do whatever you want to conditions. However, I think FindChangeFormatsBatch should delete the condition after it maps it. If you just want a straightforward "DeleteUnusedConditions" let me know and I will give you a price. Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Hi Rene and FrameUsers, > > I am also looking for a tool like this: a plug-in or Framescript to manage > condition tags at book level. > > Thanks in advance. > > Yves Barbion > Scripto > Belgium > > > > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 3:32 PM, Rene S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [...] >> >> However, I still would like to know if there's a tool by which I can >> delete >> condition tags at the book level, preferably in a batch process, and >> ideally >> providing a way to indicate whether to remap the tag, delete the tagged >> text, or convert the tagged text to unconditional text. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Rene S. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rene S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:33 PM >> To: '[email protected]' >> Subject: managing condition tags >> >> <snip> >> Is there a similar tool that will clean out the unused condition tags? If >> not, is there at least a tool, plugin, or FrameScript that can provide a >> report of all the condition tags used in the book? I think it is >> possible, >> because View > Show/Hide Conditional Text does display all the tags in >> the >> book. I can use FindChangeFormatsBatch to remap the unnecessary condition >> tags to different tags or to a single tag, but then I'd have to open each >> template file to manually delete each unnecessary condition tag, one at a >> time. </snip> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 5/9/2006 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> or visit >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/yves.barbion%40gmail.com >> >> Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >> > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/frameexpert%40truevine.net > > Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
