can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Ulrike Forsberg (UFO)]

My objection to building two books is the risk of producing a wrong
manual because I forgot that I had an extra book for one of the manuals
(you all know that things can get rather hectic close to a deadline).
What I have done until now for the 3 products is that I changed the
variables and the conditional text settings to produce the specific
manual. The cover pages are added to the pdf file, they are done in a
different program, so no advantage here for working with three books.
Two books for 3 manuals will be the solution, and I have to note down in
my procedure that there is a separate book for one of the three manuals.


 

Thanks for all the feedback, have a nice day everybody,

Ulrike

 

 

From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:37 PM
To: Ulrike Forsberg (UFO); framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

 

What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker
is designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different
books from differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for
the extra comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.

-Fred Ridder

 
> Subject: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?
> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:54:16 +0200
> From: ufo at thrane.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> Hi Framers,
> I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
> same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
> tags.
> One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make
this
> appendix conditional? 
> My fallback solution is to make a separate book for this manual. I'd
> prefer though to have a single book. 
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Ulrike Forsberg
> Technical writer
> 
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