Maximum number of variables in FM?

[Matt Sullivan]

Your variables will export out. One way is to address them in the Structured
Application (the Read/Write Rules) to configure them the way your DTD wants
them. (as either internal entities or as external entities defined in a/the
DTD.

That'll make them transfer in and out of FM properly.


-Matt
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Gaskill [mailto:dgcaller at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:14 AM
To: Rick Quatro; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: 'Matt Sullivan'
Subject: RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

Hi Rick,

10,000?  That's considerably more than I expected.  Thanks lots for doing
that.  I've just gotta make the time to learn FS. :-)

I'm not sure how many we need, maybe 100 or so.  We're trying to come up
with a common set of variables that we can use across the department for all
the versions of the products we document.  This is part of our content
modeling and reusability plan.  We also single source some of the docs to RH
and also rebrand some of our our docs for an OEM customer.  Challenging, for
sure.

Now all we have to do is make sure that the variables save in XML.
According to the FM help, they do. As you know, one of our OEMs uses
Arbortext and we use a DocBook template that creates XML that they can
import.  Even more challenging, to put it nicely, because profile attribute
settings (the DocBook XML equivalent of conditional text) cannot be imported
across the book from one chapter like conditional text can.  I'm told that
there is no function in the FDK that can do this, so apparently FS cannot
solve this problem.  

Thanks again.

Diane
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Quatro [mailto:rick at rickquatro.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:57 AM
To: 'Diane Gaskill'; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: 'Matt Sullivan'
Subject: RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?


Hi Diane,

I am not sure what the limit is, but I just used this little code snippet to
create 10,000 of them in a blank document, and it seemed to work fine. 

Loop While(i <= 10000) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1)
  New VariableFormat DocObject(ActiveDoc) Name('Variable'+i); EndLoop
  
How many do you need?

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




-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Gaskill [mailto:dgcaller at earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:15 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Matt Sullivan; Rick Quatro
Subject: Maximum number of variables in FM?

Hi Matt, Rick, and Everyone,

What the maximum number of user variables that can be created in FM 8?  The
FM help says that the maximum number of characters in a variable definition
is 255, but does not specify the maximum number of variables.  

Thanks,
Diane