Hi Caroline, I've only played with groups a folders a little, so there's not much I can tell you. I can say that using a folder will change how your headings are numbered, but using a group won't.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 1:25 AM Caroline Tabach <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > -- 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]
