Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

The shorter expression in your original post: not ( "DocIss" or "Internal" or "LP" or "LPvA" or "LPvB" or "LPvC" or "NoSeeEm" or "SAS4vB" or "SAS4vC" or "TBP" or "WriterNote" ) or ( "SAS4" and ( "LPvB" or "LPvC" ) ) and not ("TBP" or "Internal") or ( "SAS4vA" and ( "LPvB" or "LPvC" ) ) and not

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

Which shorter expression? This one? "LITEvA" and ( ( "LP" or "LPvA" or "LPvB" or "LPvC" or "SAS4" or "SAS4vA" or "SAS4vB" or "SAS4vC" ) and not ( "Internal" or "TBP" ) ) and not ( "DocIss" or "NoSeeEm" or "WriterNote" ) Because it didn't work, although it's entirely probably I misunderstood

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

The shorter expression returns everything that is NOT tagged with anything in the ( "DocIss" or ... "WriterNote") set, PLUS everything that matches ("LITEvA" and (("LP" or ... or "SAS4vC") and not ("TBP" or "Internal"))). You might try running the first one through a utility that simplifies

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

I wish. But my boss wants unstructured, so I'm sorta stuck. At least the long expression works properly. I just wish I understood why the shorter one (which to me looks logically the same) doesn't. Ah, well. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: >

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

DocBook and DITA have a much more sophisticated approach to conditional text. There are multiple profiling attributes that can have multiple values. Thus the parameters you use when processing output are simple and human-readable. In my main docs, currently I use audience (public / internal) and

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

Carp. Back to not working for all the outputs I need. It worked (I think) for the external documents but not for the internal ones. And if the external stuff ever becomes IP specific, it won't work for that, either. I'm beginning to wonder if I should have just created massive conglomerate

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

Heh. Internal / External is the audience. Internal customers get proprietary information that the external customers don't. DocIss is for tracking tickets entered against documentation so that I know who asked for a change and what the change was. LP / SAS4 / LITE are the various IPs coming out

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

You have four sets of conditions. What's the simplest logical statement of how you want to apply them? It's not clear to me why the Internal and DocIss sets are separate. You don't want this? "LITEvA" AND ("LP" or ... "SAS4vC") AND NOT ("TBP" or "Internal" or "DocIss" or "NoSeeEm" or

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

Would you believe: "LITEvA" and not ( "Internal" or "TBP" ) works? So far, at least. I want to test a few more combinations. SHEEESH. Someone told me I was supposed to be telling Frame what NOT to show, ergo the not ( "DocIss" or "Internal" or "LP" or "LPvA" or "LPvB" or "LPvC" or "NoSeeEm" or

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

OK, assuming you were telling me to create this expression: "LITEvA" and ( ( "LP" or "LPvA" or "LPvB" or "LPvC" or "SAS4" or "SAS4vA" or "SAS4vB" or "SAS4vC" ) and not ( "Internal" or "TBP" ) ) and not ( "DocIss" or "NoSeeEm" or "WriterNote" ) The answer is no, that doesn't work. For example, I

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

Might be. I'll have to try that. I thought I had, but maybe not. I'll experiment and get back to you. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Lin Sims wrote: > > ...This part of the expression is

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Lin Sims wrote: > ...This part of the expression is the same for both: > > not ( "DocIss" or "Internal" or "LP" or "LPvA" or "LPvB" or "LPvC" or > "NoSeeEm" > or "SAS4" or "SAS4vA" or "SAS4vB" or "SAS4vC" or "TBP" or "WriterNote" ) > > and

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

If there is documentation about evaluation precedence, I haven't been able to find it. I'm not sure about your comments on needing more parenthesis or a missing not. I have found that you can't nest these expressions too far (I think 3 levels is the maximum) because Frame completely crashes.

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

Is there any documentation of the precedence and order of evaluation of FrameMaker's conditional tag logical operators? I feel like the second one needs more parentheses and might be missing a NOT. As written, it looks like it will show (1) everything with none of the condition tags in the set

Re: [Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

No one wants to tackle that wall o' text, huh? :) How's this, then. Could someone explain why these two expressions don't have the same effect, even though (to my eyes) they are logically identical? This one works: not ( "DocIss" or "Internal" or "LP" or "LPvA" or "LPvB" or "LPvC" or "NoSeeEm"

[Framers] Are there limits on Conditional Expressions? If so, what are they?

Does Frame have a limit on how long the expression can be? I know from annoying experience that it has a limit on how many nested levels you can have. Are there any other gotchas that I should be aware of? -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ The rest of this email is background info to