[Framers] bizarre FM behavior
Art Campbell
art.campbell at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 10:58:30 PDT 2018
Check the file/folder ownership and creations times for clues.
Art Campbell
art.campbell at gmail.com
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DoD 358
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:52 PM, John Sgammato <john.sgammato at actifio.com>
wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Framers <framers-bounces+jeff.coatsworth=jonasclub.com@
> > lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of John Sgammato
> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 1:14 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [Framers] bizarre FM behavior
> >
> > 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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