Unable to select, conditionalise, hide/show a variable in a text frame on left of master page

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Heidi,

I am not seeing the deletion problem; when I show/hide the condition,
everything works as it should. I do see the selection issue with the Left
page text frame. I am not sure why this happens on the Left but not the
Right page, but once your variable is in place, it shouldn't be a concern
anyway. In fact, there is no reason to select the text on the master page;
just click an insertion point on any body page, and choose Special >
Variable. Select the variable from the list and click Edit Definition. After
you edit the variable, click Change then Done, then click Done.

You could further simplify things by forgetting about the Watermark
condition format altogether. When you want to hide the watermark, simply
edit its definition and change it to a non-breaking space character (enter
"\ " backslash-space in the variable Definition field).

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very
much.

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

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Heidi Bailey
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:07 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unable to select, conditionalise, hide/show a variable in a text
frame on left of master page

Hi,
Sorry for the long subject title, but this one is a bit hard to
summarise.

Windows XP, SP3, FM8p277.
This was all re-installed in the last few days, thanks to my PC
self-destructing. The problems existed before the crash and are just as
annoying now.

I have a vertical text frame on each master page (horizontal text frame
rotated through 90Deg), which I use for watermarking. The text frame has
a single paragraph (with tag Watermark applied). 
The paragraph contains a single-word variable (called Watermark), which
says something like "Draft" or "Approval".
The variable should have condition Watermark applied, which I can then
hide or show as needed.

In some of my documents, and now all of my template files, The watermark
text frame misbehaves, particularly when placed on the LEFT of a page
(not so much when it's on the right). Experimentation by someone with a
great deal of patience reveals that the problem arises if the text frame
is within 2.75 inches of the left margin.

The misbehaviour is manifested as:

-Text frame on LEFT of page: When trying to hide conditionalised
variable text, the variable is completely deleted, or the condition is
removed and the text not hidden.

-Text frame on LEFT of page: When trying to select the variable, you
cannot single-click it to select, nor double-click it to open the
Variables dialog box. You can select the whole paragraph by
triple-clicking, but I usually only want to select the variable. You can
select the variable (according to my patient friend) by placing the
cursor before the variable, then holding dhow Shift + pressing the right
arrow key.

-Text frame on RIGHT of page: Works perfectly normally when it comes to
selecting. However, the removal of condition and/or variable does
sometimes happen. 

I can send anyone willing to look at it a copy of misbehaving file. But
if you have any idea of what to check, please let me know. Various
things have been tried (such as turning off sidehead area, changing size
of text frame and paragraph text, moving text frame to where things
start to work again...).

All help gratefully received!
Cheers,

Heidi Bailey
Technical Author

Oxford Semiconductor, Ltd
A Subsidiary of PLX Technology, Inc.
25 Milton Park
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX 14 4SH

Registered in England no 2733820
Registered Address:  As Above

Tel: +44 (0)1235 824958
Email: hbailey at plxtech.com
Web: www.plxtech.com
 
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