Hi Chantel No, you can have as many conditions active in a file (or book) as you wish (there's probably a theoretical maximum). It's just that handling multiple conditions becomes a nightmare when you get to more than three. One reason for this, but not the only one, is that FrameMaker shows any content that has two or more conditions with a magenta indicator colour. So if you have three conditions:
Content with ConditionA is red (say) Content with ConditionB is blue Content with ConditionC is green Content with more than one condition applied is magenta. Unless you diligently look at the lower left on the status bar, where applied conditions are shown, it's hard to know whether some magenta text is A+B, A+C, B+C, or A+B+C. Add another condition and the number of potential combinations increases exponentially. And if you use different conditions *within* a sentence or paragraph, instead of applying conditions only at the paragraph level, it really does become a quick route to insanity. Hope this clarifies what I meant. Roger Roger Shuttleworth Technical Documentation AV-BASE Systems Inc. 1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200 London, Ontario N5V 3S4 Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330 _____ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:44:19 -0500 Subject: Re: Version and Build Questions Thanks Roger, Steve, and Ann - Multiple book files are the perfect solution. It will make things a lot easier for me to handle. Thanks for the information re: CVS. I think that is going to be the way I handle builds. I know there are limitations because the files are binary, but at least we'll be able to roll back to previous builds if necessary, provided that I tag them correctly. A question - Roger you mentioned that there should be no more than 3 conditional text options in the document. Does corruption occur if there are more than three or is it just a matter of it being too confusing to follow? Also, thanks for the tip on the appendices. Considering the fact that changing a file name means breaking with the history in CVS, this is a particularly important point for me. Chantel _______________________________________________ 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/rshuttleworth%40avbasesystems.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
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