That sounds good.
Caroline Tabach בתאריך יום ד׳, 10 באוק׳ 2018, 19:19, מאת Lin Sims <ljsims...@gmail.com>: > As a thought, you could use put all the "boxes" into a chapter (family) and > control its appearance with conditions by marking the text for that "box" > with a condition named for the customer. Then all you have to do when you > create a book for a customer is set the Show Conditions to that customer's > name and regenerate. That's actually probably the simplest solution, and > FrameMaker is capable of handling dozens of conditions. > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:33 AM Lin Sims <ljsims...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My apologies if this response is late; I've been on vacation. > > > > Assuming I understand the situation you are describing, I think your best > > choice is number 2. There are a number of good guides that describe how > to > > use FrameMaker's numbering blocks to set up some pretty complicated > > numbering schemes without too much difficulty (I'd recommend the ones by > > Lester Smalley and Dan Emory and I can probably dig those up for you if > you > > can't find them on the web), and once those are set up all you have to do > > is regenerate the book when you go to publish, which you'd have to do > > anyway for the Table of Contents. > > > > You might also want to look into using Groups, which I believe will let > > you use individual files (your boxes) as sections of a chapter (your > > families) without having to mess too much with the numbering scheme. I > > haven't used Groups, though, so I can't provide too much advice on that. > > The only caveat here is that each box will start on a new page, because > > that's how FrameMaker handles files collected into a book. > > > > I do not think text insets is a good choice here, since you would have to > > relink the text insets every time you create a book depending on what's > > used for a particular customer and that could get both tedious and error > > prone depending on how many customers you have. > > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:24 AM Caroline Tabach < > caroline.tab...@gmail.com> > > 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? > >> > >> Thanks for your ideas > >> > >> -- > >> Caroline Tabach > >> Technical/Marcom Writer > >> e-mail: caroline.tab...@gmail.com > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> This message is from the Framers mailing list > >> > >> Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > >> 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 listad...@frameusers.com > >> > > > > > > -- > > Lin Sims > > > > > -- > Lin Sims > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > 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 listad...@frameusers.com > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com 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 listad...@frameusers.com