Version and Build Questions

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hi Chantel

No, you can have as many conditions active in a file (or book) as you wish (there's probably a theoretical maximum). It's just that handling multiple conditions becomes a nightmare when you get to more than three. One reason for this, but not the only one, is that FrameMaker shows any content that has two or more conditions with a magenta indicator colour. So if you have three conditions:

Content with ConditionA is red (say)
Content with ConditionB is blue
Content with ConditionC is green
Content with more than one condition applied is magenta.

Unless you diligently look at the lower left on the status bar, where applied conditions are shown, it's hard to know whether some magenta text is A+B, A+C, B+C, or A+B+C. Add another condition and the number of potential combinations increases exponentially. And if you use different conditions *within* a sentence or paragraph, instead of applying conditions only at the paragraph level, it really does become a quick route to insanity.

Hope this clarifies what I meant.

Roger

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
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Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330
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From: brathwaitec at castupgrade.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:44:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Version and Build Questions

Thanks Roger, Steve, and Ann -
  
  Multiple book files are the perfect solution.  It will make things a lot
  easier for me to handle.
  
  Thanks for the information re: CVS.  I think that is going to be the way I
  handle builds. I know there are limitations because the files are binary,
  but at least we'll be able to roll back to previous builds if necessary,
  provided that I tag them correctly.
  
  A question - Roger you mentioned that there should be no more than 3
  conditional text options in the document.  Does corruption occur if there
  are more than three or is it just a matter of it being too confusing to
  follow? Also, thanks for the tip on the appendices.  Considering the fact
  that changing a file name means breaking with the history in CVS, this is
  a particularly important point for me.
  
  
  Chantel
  
  
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