[Framers] Toggling Condition Indicators Individually

[Peter Gold]

Have you thought of displaying these and other useful reminders, hints,
keys, legends, indicators, etc., in header/footer or other non-main-content
areas on master pages? You can contain them in anchored frames whose parent
paragraph was conditionalized so that a single show/hide command would be
the only action needed. This "master" condition name and a brief
instruction could be displayed in a non-printing color, so it would always
be visible.

This is one missing FrameMaker feature that, IIRC, has never been
requested, namely a place to display such info outside the main content
area. Layout applications, like InDesign, offer such non-printing bleed and
slug areas. In FM, the convention has been, when needed, to design oversize
pages and use cropping marks.

HTH

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Earlier I got excellent advice on how to build conditional expressions. I'm
> hoping someone here has thoughts on the above. This question actually
> concerns the same set of files with 8 or 10 different condition tags in it.
>
> My boss has a hard time remembering what each condition indicator is
> actually indicating. As a result, he has asked me to create numerous
> versions of the document set that have various conditions turned on, but
> only one of the indicators being visible.
>
> That is to say, if the document has conditions A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H,
> he wants to see the information tagged A, D, F, and G, but he only wants
> the INDICATOR for F to be visible.
>
> Right now I'm using MIF snippets to reset the colors for A, D, and G to
> black on white (having discovered that As-Is just doesn't cut it), and
> another MIF snippet to reset them to their normal colors, but it sure would
> be nice if I could toggle the indicators for individual conditions. The way
> I'm doing it is a bit error prone, and it is also very tedious.
>
> Is this something that could be done with an ExpressScript or MIF editing?
> Is it worth putting individually toggleable condition indicators in as a
> feature request with Adobe? Am I the only person with an issue like this?
> --
> Lin Sims
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