Can you expand? Caroline Tabach
בתאריך יום ה׳, 11 באוק׳ 2018, 18:36, מאת <[email protected]>: > I use GROUPS and FOLDERS all the time...I couldn't do my work without them. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+john.x.posada= > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lin Sims > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 11:14 AM > To: Frame Users <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides > per customer?? > > 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] > > > *************************************************** > This message originated from the Internet. 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