Thanks Tammy, That didn't work. There's a lot going on in this doc - I think it will be faster to just push through the 700pp and fix it manually rather than waste a lot of time on a fix that may not exist.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:25 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Weird indeed, but what is even weirder is that I encountered this problem > myself a couple of months ago when I was using ePub to convert my FM source > to HTML5. It was one flippin' variable out of many that I had in the > source > files and it also involved conditional text. I know this is really, really > pulling at straws, but a couple of plug-ins that I was using and therefore, > affecting the Framemaker FDK, appeared to be the issue. (It was a > head-banging, feet-stomping, gut-wailing investigation), but this was what > appeared to work: > > The solution is to open each FM document that is generating with missing > variables and do the following: > - From the 'Show/Hide Conditional Text' tab, select the 'Show All' radio > button (make sure to have the show condition indicators selected) and then > select 'Apply'. > - confirm that the conditional text settings are as expected and where > there > are problems fix. > - From the 'Show/Hide Conditional Text' tab, select the 'Show As Per > Condition" radio button (make sure to have the show condition indicators > deselected), set the conditions accordingly, and then select 'Apply'. Do > this for both conditons. > - Save the FrameMaker file. > > All my FrameMaker files were stable after that. > > And short of assuming that I somehow had pleased the previously pissed-off > FrameMaker gods, I have no other explanation as to why this worked (I had > my > rationale for it at the time), but it did. > > I feel your pain. > > TVB > > > Tammy Van Boening > Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com > www.spectrumwritingllc.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers > <framers-bounces+tammyvb=spectrumwritingllc....@lists.frameusers.com> On > Behalf Of John Sgammato > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 12:16 PM > To: Framers List <[email protected]> > Subject: [Framers] weird bug - Variable at start of paragraph sometimes > vanishes > > I've never seen this before; it looks like a bug. > FM2015, unstructured. > I have a big book with many variables and some conditions. In many (but not > all) cases, a variable that starts a paragraph is present but invisible. > Specifically, > *Note: AGM only.* > AGM is the variable. In some places I see *Note AGM only.* and in many > places I see *Note only.* The latter still have the variable marker in > place and selectable, and when I select it, the invisible marker is still > assigned to the variable with the value AGM. > If I replace the variable, then it appears and it seems to stay, but I > don't > know why it vanished in the first place, how to reproduce it, or how to > make > it never happen again. > A clue: The doc originally had many many AGM only notes as text. Then we > started rebranding the product while keeping our own name as well, > publishing "blue" and "orange" versions of the doc. For the orange version, > the variable = AGM, and for the blue doc it's IVGM. To set the variable > throughout the doc, I replaced the text AGM with the variable, then copied > the variable and did a Find/Replace By Pasting (not a text Find/Replace). > That got the variable into place everywhere. I am not sure that's a factor, > because I think there are too many notes that still show the variable to > account for them all having been manual operations (and thus the bu came > from the automated F/R step). > Has anyone seen this? > Is there any solution other than manually replacing each invisible > variable? > > -- > > [image: logo] > *John Sgammato* *Documentation Architect* m 508.927.2083 | > [email protected] | actifio.com > <http://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/399246/> <http://twitter.com/actifio > > > <http://www.youtube.com/c/Actifio_Official> > < > http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Actifio-EI_IE625803.11,18.htm > > > *Access your enterprise data as a service, instantly anywhere.* > _______________________________________________ > > 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 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] > -- [image: logo] *John Sgammato* *Documentation Architect* m 508.927.2083 | [email protected] | actifio.com <http://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/399246/> <http://twitter.com/actifio> <http://www.youtube.com/c/Actifio_Official> <http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Actifio-EI_IE625803.11,18.htm> *Access your enterprise data as a service, instantly anywhere.* _______________________________________________ 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]
