[Framers] bizarre FM behavior

[John Sgammato]

That sounds like a good lead... but I mentioned it to the writer, and he
didn't even know about the Package feature!

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Coatsworth <
Jeff.Coatsworth at jonasclub.com> wrote:

> Sounds almost like someone ran the Packager script on the book.
>
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> Hit send too soon - here's the whole story:
>
> We saw a bizarre thing today with unstructured FM 2015, and we want to
> figure out what happened. Maybe someone here has seen this?
>
> We have a series of books about our support for different cloud vendors
> (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
>
> Each book includes:
>
>    - Title Page
>    - ToC
>    - Preface
>    - \path\Shared File 1
>    - \path\ Shared File 2
>    - Native File
>    - \path\ Shared File 3
>    - \path\ Shared File 4
>    - \path\ Shared File 5
>
>
> The shared files are in a different folder at path. They have content that
> is common for our None of the files have been touched for a few weeks.
>
> This morning, the writer opened up one of the books to make some updates,
> and was shocked to see:
>
>    - The file structure is flat. All the shared files are in each folder.
>    - The book file points to the now-local files.
>    - The local files are not used to make the book - they are present as
>    Text Insets inside a wrapper. For example, the intro chapter has the
> right
>    master page, etc, and it has Introduction at the top where the title
> goes,
>    and then in the main text column, the entire remote chapter is present
> as a
>    text inset, including the Introduction title. It's as if someone made a
>    decision to restructure the book using text insets, but never got
> around to
>    deleting the first titles.
>
> The writer originally set the books up using text insets, but that was
> long ago, several versions back. The current books have the latest
> information, so we know we're not looking at the old books.
> This looks like something that might be done by a script, but I'm the only
> one on the team running any scripts and I never touched these books.
> Any ideas what's going on?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:56 PM, John Sgammato <john.sgammato at actifio.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > We saw a bizarre thing today, and we want to figure out what happened.
> > Maybe someone here has seen this?
> >
> > We have a book that I'll call sample.book.
> > Within sample.book are:
> > Title Page
> > ToC
> > Preface
> > Shared File 1
> >
> >
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