Section Numbering Problem in Frame 9

[Dustin Wilcox]

Thanks, Lynne. That fixed my problem. It was confusing that you could set
the section number in the files, but then had to override it in the book
with folders. All part of learning Frame 9. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynne A. Price [mailto:lprice at txstruct.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:02 PM
To: Dustin Wilcox; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Section Numbering Problem in Frame 9

Dustin,
   Any numbering you specify in individual book components will be updated 
when you update a book and specify you want numbering to be updated.

   To set section numbers, use Add > Folder from the book window to create 
a folder in the book and put the sections inside the folder. The options on 
the Section tab of the Numbering Properties dialog box will no longer be 
grayed out.  (Subsection numbers can be set in nested folders.)

         --Lynne


At 12:07 PM 7/20/2009, Dustin Wilcox wrote:
>Have a problem I hope you can help me with. Building a manual for a client
>in which they want each section as a separate file. I'm using $chapnum and
>$sectionnum to derive my numbering scheme. I set the section number in each
>file (not from the book, it's greyed out when trying it from the book) and
>it filters down as it should. The problem arises when I pull all the
section
>into a book to create a chapter. When I update the book all my section
>numbers revert back to 1. If I uncheck numbering in the update book dialog
>box, the problem goes away. But that's a bad work around that causes other
>problems and not a fix. I can't see anything in my autonumbering that is
>causing it nor does Googling reveal any bugs. Has anyone else ran into
this?
>Any ideas to try?


Lynne A. Price
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