Importing single variable values?

[Diane Schaefer]

Would this also work for importing select paragraph formats?

 

Diane Schaefer

Senior Technical Writer

Sandvine Technologies Ltd.

dschaefer at sandvine.com <mailto:dschaefer at sandvine.com> 

tel. 972-2-540-090, ext. 125

 

 

From: rebecca officer [mailto:rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz]

Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 22:22

To: Charles Beck; framers at lists.frameusers.com

Subject: Re: Importing single variable values?

 

Hi Charles

 

If all your system variables have the same value in all files in the
book, you can make an import-from FM file and delete the variables you
don't want, then import variable definitions from that file. Problem is,
you can't delete system variables.

 

But you can with a "mif fragment". Create a .mif file by saving from FM,
then gut it in a text editor so that it only has the variables you want
to change. That removes the system variables that you don't want to
change, so you can import into all files in the book. Works beautifully.

You can use it to change just user variables, just system variables, or
a mix.

 

For example, to just change a variable called BookName, one of our mif
fragments has this stuff:

 

<MIFFile 7.00>

<VariableFormats

 <VariableFormat

  <VariableName `BookName'>

  <VariableDef `Rapier i Switch Software Reference'>  > # end of
VariableFormat

> # end of VariableFormats

# End of MIFFile

 

Once you've gutted your mif file, you musn't ever save it from
FrameMaker, or it adds in values for the system variables, and a pile of
other stuff.

 

Cheers, Rebecca

 

>>> "Charles Beck" <Charles.Beck at infor.com> 14/01/08 16:08 >>>

Esteemed Framers,

 

I think I once knew the answer to this question, but it escapes me now,
and I can find nothing in the Frame documentation: Is there any way to
import a single or a selected subset of variable values from one
document to another? I tend to think there is not, that it is
all-or-nothing, but I thought I'd check to be sure. 

 

Anyone out there know for sure?