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• Show/hide conditional text to a book level

  I use TCS2 on Windows XP.

  9.0 FM p250

  I have several files as part of a great book of FM. Each file has the same conditional text tags. Can I, at a level of book, put my conditions to show/hide, etc. and then update the book? So far, I don't know how to open each file, define the TEXT CONDITIONAL SHOW/HIDE like I need (is not to show very indicators and according to my built-up expression) then save and close each file.

  Is there a way to make all my files at once? Note I want them all put the same way... so that might make it easier...

  Thank you

  Adriana

  adrianaharper wrote:

  I use TCS2 on Windows XP.

  9.0 FM p250

  I have several files as part of a great book of FM. Each file has the same conditional text tags. Can I, at a level of book, put my conditions to show/hide, etc. and then update the book? So far, I don't know how to open each file, define the TEXT CONDITIONAL SHOW/HIDE like I need (is not to show very indicators and according to my built-up expression) then save and close each file.

  Is there a way to make all my files at once? Note I want them all put the same way... so that might make it easier...

  Thank you

  Adriana

  I do not have FrameMaker available right now, so I work from memory, using FrameMaker traditional menus, rather than the FM 9 tools.

  Select all the files in the window of the book. With the asset book window, open the view menu and search for conditional text. Your settings here apply to all the files selected in the address book window, so it is possible to establish conditions on some or all of the files. CTRL + click to select non-contiguous files; Shift + click to select a range of contiguous files.

  HTH

  Kind regards

  Peter
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• "Missing Images" reported in the conditional text hidden

  Hello

  In our FrameMaker documents we frequently use conditional text.

  In a concrete example, we make 4 different documents from a single source file.

  When the document is finalized the conditional text which does not apply to the given book is hidden.

  In most cases the conditional text includes references to image that are hidden as well.

  The problem is when we the FrameMaker source is opened by another team that they receive many messages "missing image". This is because the reports of FrameMaker (9) "missing images" even in hidden conditional text.

  Is there a way around this problem? Is it possible to delete messages "missing images" hidden conditional text?

  We do not want to include the whole of the work for the missing images as these graphics/section do not apply to the book given and will inflate the size of the source file.

  Please notify.

  This would add much of unwanted work to rebuild the 4 files of this file of source document source a FM and forfaitisent for archiving and distribution.

  Thank you!

  In the light of what you describe as deliver them, there is a technique that you can bypass the hidden missing when graphics.

  If each of the sets of FM (books) that you send to your OEM partners does not actually need to have "hidden" conditional content, then you can simply remove the tag on status of the catalog of condition [Danger Will Robinson, Danger!]. It will then ask the FM to ask if you want to make the text 'hidden' this unconditional tag or if you really want to remove it. Whatever it is, it's a one-way street.

  You must be very careful with this route and keep a master copy with all tags intact.

• Conditional text / Global

  I created my doc style source, conditional text (for a chapter number on the first page of each doc in my book file) which could be hidden when exported to ePub.

  It worked. Then I tried this hidden feature applied globally to all the docs.

  Then I synced all my book file docs, but the hidden conditional text feature did not carry over to the other docs. I can see the status in the conditional text panel in each doc, but it does not work.

  What step am I missing?

  Thank you

  Eden

  thesoulartist wrote:

  I created my doc style source, conditional text (for a chapter number on the first page of each doc in my book file) which could be hidden when exported to ePub.

  It worked. Then I tried this hidden feature applied globally to all the docs.

  Then I synced all my book file docs, but the hidden conditional text feature did not carry over to the other docs. I can see the status in the conditional text panel in each doc, but it does not work.

  What step am I missing?

  Thank you

  Eden

  Condition properties are not defined in paragraph or character styles.

  To add an existing condition in a file, you can use the menu load Conditions drop down group conditional text and choose a file in which the condition already exists. OR, you can use find: , research: all the files in the book and Format change: in . If your target documents have a single paragraph or a character style applied number of chapter on the first page of each doc, you would specify find what: and the shape of the change to the .

  Then, to set show/hide the condition property in the target, in the Panel menu files book fly-out > Synchronization Options, choose other > conditional text settings and synchronize some or all of the files in the book with the designated Style Source file.

  IOW, Synchronize adds conditions that exist in the Source of Style file for the target files and sets the display/hide properties from the State to those of the source of style. Conditions that are already applied to the content in the target files will behave according to the settings show/hide that are synchronized in the target files.

  HTH

  Kind regards

  Peter

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• Newbie on conditional text question

  Hello:

  I'm happy to have my first opportunity to use conditional text, but I have some questions before you begin to implement. I read the online help and reviewed my old copy of Classroom in a Book , and I feel good. With the help of a test file, I created my conditional tags, applied and experimented with show/hide tags.

  My question is about the final look of the tagged text: it remains in that color or it revert to automatic (black) color. In other words, I have tagged my magenta conditional text. When I show conditional text, it's magenta. What should I do so that when I print to PDF, the tagged text is black instead?

  I'm sure it's something simple, but I can't seem to find the answer myself. As a junior writer, I get so much information just by reading all the questions and answers on this forum.

  I am currently using v8.0p277 on Windows XP.

  Thank you!

  Kimberly

  Kimberly,

  You are right. It's simple. In the dialog where you define what to show and what to hide, there is a box to check something like show condition indicators. When you select this, the indicators (in other words, the colors and less or overlining) show. Turn it off, and they do not. The text displays and prints as if no conditions had been applied.

  Van

• InDesign: Conditional text

  I'm using conditional text, and has highlighted a large number of things. I intend to remove the highlight but seem to be rather deleted all the text which has been replaced by red arrows. I saved the document without noticing. Can we retrieve the text? How did I lose red arrows?

  Open the 'Conditions '!  Rock ' n Roll!

• How desiginations a conditional text character style?

  I use a script posted here by Mr. Jarek

  Help find/replace by list

  where a list of words is highlighted and defined as conditional text.

  I need to apply a style of character instead of a highlight color.

  The script has a condition:

  name: "mFound."

  indicatorColor: UIColors.LIGHT_BLUE,.

  indicatorMethod: ConditionIndicatorMethod.USE_HIGHLIGHT,

  underlineIndicatorAppearance: ConditionUnderlineIndicatorAppearance.SOLID

  });

  The script can be changed?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Is the name that you see in the Panel Style Char - ITAL ?

  Use quotation marks ==>

  .appliedCharacterStyle mFound [len1] = 'ITAL ';

  Jarek

• Can I export only conditional text 'show' for a mif?

  When I export a document with conditional text to a pdf file, just the conditional text which has the value 'show' (and the unconditional text) appears in the pdf file.  It's good, but I want the same thing when you export a mif.  There are two reasons for this:

  (1) we have an internal tool that analyzes a mif and retrieves the data in some tables to fill a database.  The tool is not analyze PDF files.  And the tool does not always correctly, manage conditional text lines conditional in particular the table text.  The tool will work fine if the conditional text was already "solved" when exporting to the mif.

  (2) I would use the Boolean logic for conditional text, which is available in FM9 but I need to supply files to other groups in society who use FM7.  Their FM7 wouldn't show conditional text correctly if it depends on nothing else than to the logic of the GOLD.  But they would be happy to accept files mif which had no conditional text because it had been "resolved" when I generated a file mif7 for them.

  I tried different ways to convert a pdf into a mif file, but no process seems to preserve the formatting and text editable. I'd be ready to accomplish this somehow roundabout on Framemaker, Acrobat Pro or another tool.

  But the happiest result for me would be to discover that FM9 already has the ability to export only the conditional 'show' and the text unconditionally to a mif.

  Or is it possible to make a copy of the document and then somehow automate the removal of conditional text 'hide' and 'show' unconditional conditional text conversion?

  doc_engineer,

  You could manually delete the conditions hidden from the files before the Save as MIF, by choosing the option remove all text hidden as well. If you want to completely automated, however, you need to perform some shows, in which case I would recommend setting your post-processing tool in order to recognize the conditional text correctly, rather than make FM do something which is less-than-optimal, IMHO.

  Your best bet of all would be to abandon the MIF format altogether and use a structured XML author, with which you can use for the conditional metadata attribute values. With this, you could also abandon the model of FrameMaker condition for a much more robust system of conditionalizing content tag. It would be more flexible and certainly easier to design the post-processing step, as there are many tools available for the treatment of XML metadata and the ability to analyze the attribute values is commonplace among them.

  Russ

• RH5.1: Empty folders in the conditional text output

  Okay, know that I use RH 5.1, and is not likely to change anytime soon.
  
  I use conditional text to support a customer-specific systems, so I don't want any mention to a customer of the aid system aid system another client, even folders.
  
  The TOC is fine - if a folder is empty, it is not generated in the help system. The problem is that empty folders (with the names of other customers on them) are always in the folders on the drive of each user. My job is to do not forget to remove the empty output files after I generated the system and before I promote in the help system in the construction of the client software.
  
  Is it possible to do it's automatic? I really want to remember to do this for the rest of my life.
  
  Thank you!

  I'm afraid that it's no Carol. I guess that rename files so they do not have the customer names is not an option?

• Having ID CS5 add/remove pages of conditional text

  I have a file of 100 pages with a simple structure ID:

  • block a text per page
  • threading in a story frame is always on the next page
  • each of the 8 chapters is its own history

  I recently started to add conditional text. All text is "unconditional" or "Gold" or "diamond". The length of a chapter/story of the "Diamond" status can run up to 2 pages more 'Gold '.

  I think I've seen in a training video that it is possible to have InDesign CS5, add pages at the end of a stoy, if the text in the history is longer than the number of pages... and remove empty at the end of a stoy pages when empty pages. And this works automatically when you turn on and turn off conditional text, even in the middle of the story (i.e. several pages before the end of the thread).

  Basically, I want to turn off text diamond, have all reflow and white pages disappear until I have create the PDF Gold. Then I stop the Golden text (and turn on the text of diamond) and have everything reflow and necessary pages appear before as I create the PDF of diamond. Reinvest it works well, but the automatic add/remove pages does not occur.

  If this is indeed possible, how do I set that up? I tried a few settings but not him have yet to get to work.

  Thank you

  John

  Smart text reflow is activated?

• Book and conditional text Tags file do not match

  With Framemaker 10 (CT 3, Windows 7 64-bit), when I click on a document in a book (& view > show/hide conditional text), there is no such thing as an additional conditional text tag that appears in the text document show/hide conditional.

  For example:

  1. In the book, My Book.book, I select Chapter1.fm (but do not open).
  2. Then I opened the group Show/Hide conditional text (view > show/hide conditional text)
  3. I see these two tags, text to hide and HideTextcondition. I use text hide but not HideText.
     • Apparently, at some point, I changed the name of the condition tag.
  4. I have to open Chapter1.fm.
  5. When I open the Panel of text show/hide conditional , HideText is not there.

  What I want to do is to remove HideText (that I don't use), but I can't find how to court. any ideas out there?

  A little more information that might help to understand what is happening:

  1. I select Chapter1.fm in the book.
  2. Then I select view according to the condition in the group Show/Hide conditional text .
  3. Select the hide field HideText .
  4. Click the left arrow (<-) to move the field to display HideText .
  5. Click apply.
  6. I get this error message in the book error log:
  • Cannot display the following tags because they do not exist in the present document

  So, can someone tell me how to get rid of HideText from files of the book?

  Thank you!

  John N.

  John,

  With only the open book file, even if one of its documents is selected, the show/hide box lists all the conditions in the book. The error message says you that the selected document does not have this tag. Thus, some other documents in the book has the label or that you think that you have changed the name in the past and he is still in the book file to.

  So first, I'd follow the suggestiong of Sheila #4. Save the BOOK as mif. Open the mif with a text editor. Search for the following sequence of lines:

  <>

  .

  .

  .

  > end # ConditionCatalog

  Remove these lines and save the file. Now open the mif file in FrameMaker and save it as a FrameMaker book (in the record dialog, don't forget to remove the string ".mif" at the end of the file name or image will complain). The book was updated. FrameMaker will then create a new catalog of condition in the book based on conditions in the files of the book.

  If the condition is still there, then you need to find the document that contains still. You can use the Find function to search for conditional text with just this condition.

  Van

• Guidelines for the use of conditional text

  I'm looking for instructions on the use of conditional text. Our company has grown, and that the range of products has increased, the number of conditional text tags has increased. We are up to 30 tags and continues to grow. I was struck my colleague to start breaking this system a bit, because I'm afraid, it becomes a House of cards. Colleague has been 20 years and grew up with the system - it's the only one that it is used. He sees nothing wrong with it. The tags are in its abbreviation. When I mentioned that everybody don't would not new understand them, his response was that they would teach them eventually. Also, it's starting to get to the point where some sentences are be mislabeled, causing many errors.

  Are there guidelines I refer who say in the use of conditional text is too large so that it's not just my word? 

  
  

  Milmacrose

  You might want to take a look at Matt Sullivan & Sarah O'Keefe book (edition Fundamentals - unstructured FrameMaker 11; Chapter 24) for some background information on the consequences of the use of the multiple conditional tags. Depending on what your choice (i.e. to hide or show content based on the condition tag), you can get in very complex situations with some items possibly requiring each combination of tags applied to prevent display (or display) as needed. Even with simple simple conditional tags, it can reach a very large number of unique tags required (mathematically, you are summing a series of combinations). For example, [as used in the Book], given a product in Light versions, Standard and Pro with specific online requirements & Print for Mac, Windows and Unix, there are 32 conditional tags applied correctly. If you have content that should appear in a few versions, it climbs easily up to 47 unique tags. You'd be better trying to herd a bunch of cats in a field of grass cat...

• How to create and apply a condition to the selected text?

  Hi all

  I am new to Scripting InDesign. I use Flex 4.6, so I use ActionScript. I want to apply the conditional text in some text selected in my document. I understand the process manually. But I'm problem do it programmatically.

  I see that there is a Condition class. I created an object of this class and tried to set some values.

  var nameCondition = new Condition();

  nameCondition.indicatorMethod = ConditionIndicatorMethod.USE_UNDERLINE;

  nameCondition.label = "name";  Could not understand what label is synonymous with

  nameCondition.name = "name";

  nameCondition.visible = false;

  Now, when I debug, I see that the values that I have assigned to the object nameCondition are never affected.

  Also, I came across the appliedConditions method that is available in the app and doc. But I don't know how to use it.

  Help, please.

  Hi poortip87,

  Find the code JS, his work below InDesign CS5.5 only.

  var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
  try{
      myDoc.conditions.add({name:"TEST", indicatorColor:UIColors.GOLD, indicatorMethod:ConditionIndicatorMethod.USE_HIGHLIGHT, visible:false})
      }catch(e){}
  
  app.selection[0].applyConditions(myDoc.conditions.itemByName("TEST"));
  

  THX,

  csm_phil

• Can I use conditional and advanced actions on the same button?

  I'm fairly new to Captivate, but come from a flash background and I do of Captivate to do certain things, that I expected to be straightforward and a normal requirement.

  I want to create a screen with a number of interactive objects, in this case photos, it's the learner clicks on to display a text element.

  By clicking on the following image, the first piece of text is hidden and a second piece shown.

  There are 6 images/buttons which have to work in this way.

  However, I also want to determine if all the buttons have been used, as we force the user to view the entire slide before you continue.

  I can do the hide/show text and buttons, and I wrote a conditional action to check the variables for each button. However I do not know how and when to appeal to this action.

  I was hoping that in my Advanced action for each button, I could add in a call to the conditional action "record"variables", which would be very well fulfil this requirement, however this doesn't seem to be the case."

  I also animation/effects on the timeline before the images are on the meaning of screen I want to go back to the beginning of the timeline to use an event "on enter.

  I am surprised that this isn't something that people most need because while it may be frowned upon outside in the field of e-learning, disabled navigation is frankly not will disappear and working for a large corporation will be a must.

  If anyone can shed some light on this, or perhaps suggest a better approach then I'd appreciate it.

  Thank you.

  Of course, it is possible. This is the approach I explained (for previous versions):

  http://blog.lilybiri.com/template-for-reusing-script

  The models that I offered it, were invited to a lot of times and are used all over the world, which is funny

  I also have templates for CP6 and 7, but has stopped offering everything for free. And 7, you can have all the shares shared in a library that can be used as external library... just a tip: http://blog.lilybiri.com/new-features-in-captivate-7-dot-01

  Agreement on controls on effects for paths, please submit a feature request as many have already done to have the most control over the coordinate without having to change the XML file.

  It would be nice to have timed events. Jim Leichliter has a widget (only for the SWF) which allows some scripted events. The interaction of timer that can do as well, but is not very accurate because after that time there is always a lag of about 2 seconds.

  http://blog.lilybiri.com/events-and-advanced-actions tells us about the available events.

  Sorry for all these links, but advanced actions are my passion, since they appeared with 4. They are limited, all right, but I managed to convince many users to give them a try at different levels. Would love to train more users for this "point-and-click" approach that does not really need programming skills, but only a logical mind.

• Kernel panic reproducible when using VMWare Fusion and Cisco VPN

  I can reliable reproduce a kernel panic when I use VMWare Fusion and Cisco VPN set.

  Using either done alone causes no problem.

  I'm on a mac book pro using the latest updates from Apple for Leopard.

  My question is: How can I report this to VMWare without having to pay for support?

  When I go to the VMWare fusion support page he wants me to pay for an incident.

  I really do not want to pay them to help solve a kernel panic.  (They pay me .)

  Announcing the details here (don't forget to join the panic.log as in HOWTO: ask (and answer) Questions) will work.