Inconsistent Conditional Text Settings that won't go away

[Fei Min Lorente]

Thanks Anita and Matt! I totally forgot that copying conditions will
only add the ones that are in the source file, not delete extras that
are in the target!

 

I cleaned all the conditions out of my TOC file and imported them again
from the cover page file and life is good again.

 

I'll go tidy up my templates now, too.

 

Fei Min

 

From: Gutierrez, Anita [mailto:Anita.Gutierrez at sage.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 3:39 PM
To: Fei Min Lorente; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Inconsistent Conditional Text Settings that won't go away

 

Hi Fei Min,

 

Importing conditional text settings from one file to another only
affects the conditions that are present in the source file.  So, let's
say you have a condition "Condition1" that is present in the TOC, and is
set to "Hide." "Condition1" is not present in the cover page, so
importing conditional text settings won't affect this condition in the
TOC. If later files have "Condition1" set to "Show," you get the book
errors. 

 

To avoid this type of error, I try to keep the number of conditions in
my templates to a minimum.  When I'm working on a new book that requires
a condition, I set the condition up in the first file, and then import
conditional text settings from that file into every other file in the
book.  

 

Good luck!

Anita

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fei Min
Lorente
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 11:51 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Inconsistent Conditional Text Settings that won't go away

 

When I update some of my manuals, I get "Show/Hide setting for _____ is
inconsistent." on my TOC file. I import the conditional text settings
from the cover page file to the TOC, update the book again, and I still
get the errors. But if I import the conditional text settings from the
TOC to the rest of the manual, the errors go away. Does anyone have any
explanations for this behavior? Fortunately, I'm not using the native
conditional text settings right now, but if I cared about them, this
would be a problem.

 

I'm currently using FrameMaker 10 on Windows XP SP3, but I started
seeing this problem in the last few months on FrameMaker 7.2, just
before we switched over.

 

Fei Min

 

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