Hello, We're looking at weaning our authors off a previous XML authoring tool (Syntext Serna) and get them accustomed to FrameMaker 9 (structured). One of the things they really liked with the previous tool was the possibility to create easily graphical buttons in the menu bar and associate them with a text or structured snippet. Over time they accumulated a long row of icons used to quickly insert these snippets and thus avoided speling errors.
I'm looking for an equivalent solution for FrameMaker 9. I have found Leximation's StructureSnippets plugin which is very close our requirements but apparently does not allow for non-structured, text-only contents (each snippet must be surrounded by a root element). Although this plugin does not provide icons in the menu bar, one can use the context menu, the keyboard or the modeless dialog box. Unless somebody can suggest a solution to my problem, I would be interested to hear from the FrameMaker customisation experts on this list about the work necessary to implement this plugin (in FDK rather than FrameScript). Requirements in a nutshell would be: - provide a way to easily associate unstructured or structured text (up to 1024 chars, this limit is for guidance only) with a button in FrameMaker's menu bar (and optionally other access methods such as context menu or modeless dialogue) - store them persistently in between sessions - allow for easy management (i.e. list buttons, add, modify and delete a button and its associated snippet) - as a plus, allow for custom icons to be used for the buttons cheers, Jakob.