My first thought would be to migrate to Flare or Paligo, which are much better at that sort of reuse.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 5:24 AM Caroline Tabach <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have converted the very large Word user guide to FrameMaker. I am using > Unstructured Frame 2017 > > This is a guide for a product which has general information about how to > use the product at the beginning, and a few chapters with general > information at the end. > > > > The product is made up of 100 "boxes" which belong to 5 families (I am > just calling them boxes for the sake of the example) > > The FrameMaker book I made uses only chapters, not volumes, there is a > chapter for each box family, with information about each of the boxes in > that family. > > Each customer only needs to user 4 or 5 "boxes", so we want to make user > guides that are smaller and more focused > > I have made a book with everything in it, and now I want to show the SME > how we can use Frame to make smaller guides. I am wondering about the best > way to do this. > > 1. Make 5 books each with one box family in it, which will contain info > about all the boxes in that family as well as the general information. end > users will receive the guide with info about the box family, they will have > info about 15 boxes even if they only bought one > > 2. Redo the guide that I did and make the box families to be volumes, and > then each box is a chapter. . > > This means it will be easy to add or remove boxes from the guide, this also > means it is possible to customize the guides per customers > The company are using heading numbering, so this means redoing all of the > heading of all the paragraph styles, which might get complicated > > 3. Another idea I had was to set the book up as described above, with a > chapter for each box family, but to have each box as a text inset, and be > able to create user guides per box. Highly customizing this, but means I > don't have to mess with the numbering, but maybe this will make life > complicated > > What would you recommend? > > Are there advantages and disadvantages of each method? _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
