RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-11-12 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 08:04 PM 10/28/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote: If I read your message correctly, FM9 has a function in the FDK that can import filter-by-attribute settings. Please confirm. This will solve a major problem for us. Diane, Sorry for the delay in responding. It isn't a single function, but I

RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-11-12 Thread Diane Gaskill
Message- From: Lynne A. Price [mailto:lpr...@txstruct.com] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:19 PM To: Diane Gaskill; Diane Gaskill; Rick Quatro; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Maximum number of variables in FM? At 08:04 PM 10/28/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote: If I read your message

Re: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-10-29 Thread Klaus Daube
On 27 Oct 2009 at 0:00, Diane Gaskill wrote: What the maximum number of user variables that can be created in FM 8? The FM help says that the maximum number of characters in a variable definition is 255, but does not specify the maximum number of variables. Diana, I have found out this for

RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-10-28 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Diane, I am not sure what the limit is, but I just used this little code snippet to create 10,000 of them in a blank document, and it seemed to work fine. Loop While(i = 1) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1) New VariableFormat DocObject(ActiveDoc) Name('Variable'+i); EndLoop How many do

RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-10-28 Thread Diane Gaskill
, October 28, 2009 4:57 AM To: 'Diane Gaskill'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Cc: 'Matt Sullivan' Subject: RE: Maximum number of variables in FM? Hi Diane, I am not sure what the limit is, but I just used this little code snippet to create 10,000 of them in a blank document, and it seemed to work

RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-10-28 Thread Matt Sullivan
: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:14 AM To: Rick Quatro; framers@lists.frameusers.com Cc: 'Matt Sullivan' Subject: RE: Maximum number of variables in FM? Hi Rick, 10,000? That's considerably more than I expected. Thanks lots for doing that. I've just gotta make the time to learn FS. :-) I'm not sure

RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-10-28 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Diane. I have over 700 variables in one of my documents ... no problem at all! In case anyone wonders why I have so many: has to do with a set of numeric values in one of my specs that are refered to in multiple places - fwiw, it is better to be consistent everywhere, than wrong in even one

RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-10-28 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 11:14 AM 10/28/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote: Even more challenging, to put it nicely, because profile attribute settings (the DocBook XML equivalent of conditional text) cannot be imported across the book from one chapter like conditional text can. I'm told that there is no function in the FDK

RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-10-28 Thread Diane Gaskill
, October 28, 2009 2:30 PM To: Diane Gaskill; Rick Quatro; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Maximum number of variables in FM? At 11:14 AM 10/28/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote: Even more challenging, to put it nicely, because profile attribute settings (the DocBook XML equivalent of conditional text