bugs in FM 9's conditional build expressions

[Baruch Brodersen]

Hi Joseph,

Please provide Frame version, patches, and operating system details.
Best,
Baruch


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joseph Lorenzini <jaloren at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Recently my company has decided to release several different editions of
> the product we sell. This has forced me to create several conditional tags.
> The complexity of the conditional tags and how its applied in the document
> makes the use of build expressions highly desirable. However, it seems like
> this functionality is kinda buggy.
>
> Has anyone noticed the following:
>
> -you cannot import build expressions from one document to another. that's a
> killer. Is there some way around this aside from hand editing mif files?
> -deleting unused build expressions requires me to save the FM file as a MIF
> file, open the MIF file in  a text editor, delete the conditional build
> expressions, and then save the MIF back to FM format. Is it honestly the
> case that Adobe didn't provide a delete button and this is the only way to
> get rid of expressions?
> -when i use a build expression, my condition indicators don't seem to work.
> Anyone have an idea why?
>
> Sincerely,
> Joseph Lorenzini
>
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