[Framers] Using Frame as a little CMS

[Johan Anglemark]

We are using InsetPlus together AXCM, also from West Street Consulting, 
and everything is automated with a set of ExtendScripts from JANG 
Communication - http://www.jang.nl/.

We're talking about a few hundred insets per FrameMaker book. Back when 
we were using Unstructured FrameMaker we more or less stopped using text 
insets because we thought they didn't really work, but in the publishing 
framework we are using now, they work really well.

-j

On 2016-04-22 18:15, Art Campbell wrote:
> Robert, are you using this, or just knew about it?
> _____________
> And, it does look as if it requires structured Fm, but the web site (quick
> perusal) doesn't say what kind of structure is required/supported.
>
> Any know?
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> Art Campbell
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> I support www.TheGrotonLine.com, hyperlocal news for Groton MA.
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Tornquist, Patti <
> patti.tornquist at teamquest.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes and it looks excellent, but it only works with structured Frame.
>>
>> The jump from unstructured to structured Frame is quite significant.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com <robert.lauriston at gmail.com> on behalf
>> of Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 12:03 PM
>> To: Tornquist, Patti; framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: Re: [Framers] Using Frame as a little CMS
>>
>> Have you looked at InsetPlus?
>>
>> http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_InsetPlus.htm
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Tornquist, Patti
>> <patti.tornquist at teamquest.com> wrote:
>>> We are using insets for reuse (and we use unstructured FM12).  So for
>> content that is used in multiple places, we make it into a text inset and
>> then we can edit in one place and use it in multiple places.
>>>
>>> We log the insets in a spreadsheet by fm file name, topic title, writer,
>> and last change date, and then we regularly run a book of books to identify
>> text insets and determine if we're missing any in the spreadsheet.
>>>
>>> We have two main problems:
>>> - There is no way, other than our spreadsheet, to see where the text
>> insets are used.  So if inset A is used in book A, B, and C, we can't tell
>> that other than through the spreadsheet. You can't click the text inset and
>> see where it's used.
>>> - Also, if we need to find information and we search the book or books
>> for that string, we can't find it as text insets aren't searchable.



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