Changing Track Revisions display

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Keith and Scott,

You can indeed use FrameScript or the FDK to change the appearance of these 
conditions. They can be programmatically changed just like any other 
condition. However, the changes do not survive when you close and reopen the 
document. The solution I have used is a FrameScript event script that 
automatically changes them when the document is opened. I am sure you could 
do this with the FDK as well. Keith, if you are interested in a FrameScript 
solution, please contact me offlist. Thanks.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com


> Hi Keith...
>
> As far as I've been able to tell .. these are conditions, but they are
> *special* conditions. They don't show up in the standard condition UI,
> and you can't easily change their appearance or hide/show state. If you
> export this to a MIF, you'll see that they look like normal conditions,
> but if you try  changing the hide/show or coloring in the MIF, they will
> revert back to the standard appearance when you open it in FM. Their
> properties must be hard-coded in some manner.
>
> I'd imagine that an FDK plugin or FrameScript could change this (haven't
> tried yet) but I'm not aware of any "normal" ways to change their
> appearance.
>
> ...scott
>
> Scott Prentice
> Leximation, Inc.
> www.leximation.com
> +1.415.485.1892
>
>
>
> Keith Soltys wrote:
>> Frame 8 includes a Track Text Edits feature that is similar to Microsoft
>> Word's Track Changes. Inserted text shows up as green underlined and
>> deleted text as red strikethough. It doesn't appear to be possible to
>> change these settings.
>>
>> I would like to have deleted text hidden. I thought that Frame might use
>> conditional text to control the display of tracked text. It does show up
>> in the status line as either FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_ADDED or
>> FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_DELETED, in the same spot as conditional text.
>> However, as far as I can see, these conditions (if that's what they
>> are), don't show up in any of the conditional text dialogs.
>>
>> Is it possible to modify how FrameMaker displays these tracked changes?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Keith Soltys