Another FrameMaker 11 Bug

[Combs, Richard]

Rick Quatro wrote:
 
> 1) Create a new, double-sided document.
> 2) Go to the two master pages and add Current Page # variables so you can
> keep track of the body pages.
> 3) Add some dummy content so the document has at least 3 pages.
> 4) Go to page 2 and add a small text frame in the top margin of the page.
> Tag the flow with a name that is not "A" and turn on the Autoconnect
> property.
> 5) Click in the new text frame and press Return until a new page is created.
> 
> OK, where is the new page with the new, small text frame? In FrameMaker 11,
> will be on page 4. in FrameMaker 10 (and lower), the new page will be 3, and
> the original page 3 becomes page 4.
> 
> Why has this changed in 11? Is it a bug or a feature?

Neither behavior sounds much like a feature to me. If I'm understanding correctly, each subsequent page in the document will contain either the main text frame (Flow A) or the small one you added (Flow B), but not both. And which page contains which depends on which flow you add text to next. 

Preferable behavior, IMHO, would be if step 5 caused a new, small text frame for Flow B to appear at the top of the existing page 3, along with the existing main text frame (Flow A). 

But I can't really think of a use case for either the old behavior, the new behavior, or the behavior I'm suggesting. I've only used multiple text flows for documents like newsletters, where I wanted a text flow to continue in a specific place of my choosing, and thus placed the text frame there and connected it to the previous frame in that flow. 

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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