Maximum number of variables in FM?

[Diane Gaskill]

Hi Lynne,

If I read your message correctly, FM9 has a function in the FDK that can
import filter-by-attribute settings.  Please confirm.  This will solve a
major problem for us.

Thanks lots,
Diane

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynne A. Price [mailto:lprice at txstruct.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:30 PM
To: Diane Gaskill; Rick Quatro; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?


At 11:14 AM 10/28/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote:
>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.

Diane,
   I'm not sure what you mean here. It is true that importing formats from
one document to others (including those in a book) does not import the
definition of attribute expressions used by filter-by-attribute; nor does
it apply the filter used in the source to the destination documents.
However, at least in FM9, the FDK can do so.
         --Lynne



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