Now I see. That is FrameMaker's normal behavior...so the need for scripting...
If I understand you have 50 text insets...with 30 with one conditional tag and 20 with another....when you update the text insets the conditional format on their marker disappears... Sounds like a job for a different book for each need... Couldn't each text inset become a document in a book and then by controlling the numbering the first 10 text insets are numbered like section 1, the next ten become numbered as section 2, etc... No conditional notions here... Does that help? At 03:19 PM 25/04/2008, Duncan, Gary wrote: >Hi Stephen, > >Another person on the list was confused, too. I >probably should have mentioned that we are >single-sourcing for Print and Help and are not >conditionalizing the text inset content >directly. The inset is ?clean,? we call it in, >conditionalize from within the container file. >That works until the inset is updated (called >back in). The inset and related condition info >is replaced by the clean inset that is called >back in. That is the basic dilemma. > >Gary > > > >---------- >From: Stephen O'Brien [mailto:sobrien at innovmetric.com] >Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:12 PM >To: Duncan, Gary; framers at lists.frameusers.com >Subject: Re: Conditional text insets > >Not sure I understand the problem. But I am >interested because I use text insets (several >hundred) and conditional text formats (twenty). > >Let's say that Doc1 has a text inset Doc2 which >has three conditional formats A, B, and C. > >If in Doc1 I want to see only the content of >Doc2 that is flagged with condition C, I set >show condition C in Doc1 and that's that. No problem. > >The only time I had a problem with this is when I had the following case: > >Doc1 has a text inset Doc2 with a text inset Doc >3 (with conditional formats called A, B, and C). >I set show condition C in Doc1 and it didn't >work! The problem I believe was that the >condition was not defined the same way in Doc2 >so the specification didn't make it to Doc3. I >deleted the condition in Doc2 and then the >correct condition definition (created in Doc3) >was imported into Doc2 and then Doc1. I wonder if this is clear..helps. > >I don't understand how/why a script would be useful here. > >I probably don't quite understand the problem. > >Good luck. > >At 08:20 AM 24/04/2008, Duncan, Gary wrote: > >Hi everyone, > > > >We are trying to use text insets that get called into the chapter and >then are conditionalized from within the container file. For example, if >we want the content of an inset to appear only in Help, we give it a >HelpOnly condition from within the container file. We do not want to >conditionalize the text inset content itself because the condition may >not be appropriate in other places we use the inset. > > > >This works fine until we revise the inset and it gets called back into >the container file. The condition is lost. At first, it seemed like a >bug. But after thinking about it, it makes sense that reimporting the >text inset replaces everything associated with the previous version. The >buggy thing is that Frame still indicates that the inset is conditional >(in the lower left corner of the screen where the paragraph/flow info >shows). The conditional dialog indicates that the inset is conditional, >but does not indicate which condition. In the end, however, the >information seems bogus because if you click on something else, then >click back on the inset, the info is carried over from the previous text >you clicked on. > > > >If the conditional info was truly held in Frame, I was hoping that a >solution could be a script that scans for insets with associated >conditions and update and apply the condition. Now, I am not so hopeful. > > > >Has anyone run into this and solved the problem? > > > >Thank you... > > > >Gary > >_______________________________________________ > > >You are currently subscribed to Framers as sobrien at innovmetric.com. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sobrien%40innovmetric.com > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. 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