[Framers] Toggling Condition Indicators Individually

[Robert Lauriston]

Could you do what you need by having an .fm file that has a table with
a row for each condition indicator, one column for the indicator name,
a second with conditional text saying "currently visible," and a third
describing its purpose? You could include that file as the first page
after the front matter when generating PDFs (?) for your boss, and
drop it from customer versions.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 1:24 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?