Boolean condition expression problems in FM 8

Reng, Winfried wreng at tycoint.com
Thu Oct 18 02:07:16 PDT 2007


Hi,

We have a "comment" condition which should be hidden in the
final document and other conditions which should be shown.
However, here  I ran into problems, when I have text which
has "comment" and another condition applied, and  text with
"comment" should be hidden. I tried this:

o "draft"OR"print"OR"nursecall"ORNOT"comment" -> Text which
  has "nursecall" and "comment" assigned is shown.

o "nurse call"ANDNOT"comment"OR"draft"OR"print" -> Text which
  has "nursecall" and "comment" assigned is hidden. That's
  exactly what I want and it works. Very good. However I cannot
  explain why. Obviously the order is important. But I do not
  want to try all possibilities.
  In my oppinion I would need the option to group the single
  elements in this expression. But that's not allowed.



And other condition issues:

o I have to close all condition windows when I want to do
  something else. I cannot leave them open as before.

o When I select "Show All" and "Set" and then again an expression
  my latest expression got lost.

o The FM documentation is not correct when it says: 5. Click
  the AND, OR, or NOT button.
  When I need "NOT" the result must be ANDNOT or ORNOT.
  I miss examples.

And another minor annoyance: When in FM e.g. the paragraph
designer was active and I switch to another application and go
back to FM, FM 8 displays now only the paragraph designer. The
whole FM window should be shown.

Best regards

Winfried



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