Lin thanks for getting back to me. Are there people with experience with groups?
I will look up those numbering articles and think about either this suggestion, or the suggestion of using conditional text. I have to present the ideas to the SMEs next week On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:34 PM Lin Sims <[email protected]> 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 <[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? > > > > Thanks for your ideas > > > > -- > > Caroline Tabach > > Technical/Marcom Writer > > e-mail: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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] > > > > > -- > Lin Sims > _______________________________________________ > > 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] > -- Caroline Tabach Technical/Marcom Writer e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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]
