Re: Tweaking Workbook Templates for Trainers
A couple of suggestions/ideas... This would be a perfect application for change pages, which freeze the student book pagination but allow insertion of instructor pages. It's an undocumented FM feature -- Esc, p , z. I'm guessing that because it's undocumented, it's not officially supported, but it's been around for years and is still in 7.2. Ric Quatro, a FM scripter, was working on a plug-in that would make managing the change pages easier, but I don't know the status. He's at frameexpert.com. Might be worth checking with him, and at least playing with the feature. Second, if it was me, I'm not sure I'd jump on the separate text boxes with conditional text. Before I committed to it, I think I'd at least test adding a second text frame to all pages to manage a separate text flow for the instructor material -- Flow B, say. Which you could either write in directly, or use to hold an imported file, so the instructor's material could be worked on separately. Third idea I think I'd also consider an alternate work flow in which you finished the student workbook and generated a .pdf. Then used Acrobat to extract the pages as individual graphic files and import them into the FM files for the instructor's guides (probably at reduced size). The student page numbers and so on would all still be visible and in order, but you'd have a lot more room and flexibility to handle the instructor's material, including graphics... Cheers, Art On 8/23/06, Gutierrez, Anita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Framers, My company consists of several business units that each currently use their own training workbook templates (all are on Frame 6 or 7). We have developed a standard curriculum template to which each business unit will transition, and now we have the opportunity to enhance this new template to allow us to generate instructor guides from the workbooks. snip -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Tweaking Workbook Templates for Trainers
Greetings Framers, My company consists of several business units that each currently use their own training workbook templates (all are on Frame 6 or 7). We have developed a standard curriculum template to which each business unit will transition, and now we have the opportunity to enhance this new template to allow us to generate instructor guides from the workbooks. I'm wondering what kind of great ideas are out there for creating slick trainer guides from a workbook. Please share your secrets. Our specific requirements are as follows: * Trainer guides should consist of all the material in the student workbook, plus additional trainer-specific material where needed. * The additional material can usually fit in the existing page margins using separate text boxes with conditional text. That part we've figured out. * The page numbering for both student and trainer guides must match up, so that trainers can easily refer students to the correct page. That becomes a problem with the next two bullets ... * Occasionally the additional material is too lengthy to fit in the margins. In that case is there a way to add additional pages and still accomplish bullet 3? Perhaps with an autonumbered paragraph tag in the footers of only the student pages? * The first page of each lesson almost always needs to be its own trainer-specific page in the trainer guide. This page would not be included in the student version, and again, we would want to retain the page numbering as the student sees it. In addition to these requirements I'd love to hear other good ideas. We have a unique situation in that the group working on these templates is eager to think outside of the box. Thanks! Anita Anita Maria Gutierrez Sage Software Beaverton, Oregon anita.gutierrez at sage.com
Tweaking Workbook Templates for Trainers
A couple of suggestions/ideas... This would be a perfect application for change pages, which freeze the student book pagination but allow insertion of instructor pages. It's an undocumented FM feature -- Esc, p , z. I'm guessing that because it's undocumented, it's not officially supported, but it's been around for years and is still in 7.2. Ric Quatro, a FM scripter, was working on a plug-in that would make managing the change pages easier, but I don't know the status. He's at frameexpert.com. Might be worth checking with him, and at least playing with the feature. Second, if it was me, I'm not sure I'd jump on the "separate text boxes with conditional text." Before I committed to it, I think I'd at least test adding a second text frame to all pages to manage a separate text flow for the instructor material -- Flow B, say. Which you could either write in directly, or use to hold an imported file, so the instructor's material could be worked on separately. Third idea I think I'd also consider an alternate work flow in which you finished the student workbook and generated a .pdf. Then used Acrobat to extract the pages as individual graphic files and import them into the FM files for the instructor's guides (probably at reduced size). The student page numbers and so on would all still be visible and in order, but you'd have a lot more room and flexibility to handle the instructor's material, including graphics... Cheers, Art On 8/23/06, Gutierrez, Anita wrote: > > Greetings Framers, > > My company consists of several business units that each currently use > their own training workbook templates (all are on Frame 6 or 7). We > have developed a standard curriculum template to which each business > unit will transition, and now we have the opportunity to enhance this > new template to allow us to generate instructor guides from the > workbooks. -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
