Re: Extracting and maintaining copies individual rows from tables to appear in multiple places in a doc

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hi Jerry

I'm not sure that it would work with table rows or within tables, but:

You could store your pieces of text in separate flows in a single file. Every Frame document can contain up to 255 (I think) separate flows. If you store each piece in its own uniquely named flow, you can import the flow by reference as a text inset wherever you need it. When importing the inset, select the file you want to import and the specific flow.

I've certainly done this successfully with glossary definitions in a master glossary, but am not sure whether you can import a text flow into a table cell. Worth a try...

Hope this helps.
Roger

Roger Shuttleworth
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From: Young, Jerry [mailto:Jerry.Young at cirrus.com]
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:34:41 -0400
Subject: Extracting and maintaining copies individual rows from tables to appear in multiple places in a doc

Long-time listener, first-time caller.
  
  Using Frame 7.2 (and Frame 9), unstructured. 
  
  I have a large set of reference tables, from which I would like to be
  able to individually extract/duplicate rows to make a copy of the
  contents available to readers in the context in which they need the
  information. None of the solutions that are obvious to me are
  attractive: 
  
  -setting up separate tables and x-refing each individual paragraph from
  the source tables
  -trying to create multiple files for each small chunk and using text
  insets to call them into the narrative context
  
  I would like to imagine that there is some way (short of moving to
  structured Frame, which isn't practical for a variety of reasons) to
  accomplish this, given how orderly tables appear in the MIF files. 
  
  Has anyone found a durable solution to this? 
  
  Your insights would be appreciated,
  
  Jerry Young
  jerry.young at cirrus.com
  
  
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