[Framers] ANN: Bottlenecks

[John Sgammato]

I agree about the quality of the product... It's convincing the boss that I
am too stupid to solve these problems, but smart enough to know that he can!

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 8:16 PM Bernard Aschwanden <
bernard at publishingsmarter.com> wrote:

> BTW, that type of an xml document could, if you REALLY want, even have an
> application in FrameMaker that opens it, puts it into a more human friendly
> format, and then writes it back to XML as well. As many people on the list
> attest, Rick does awesome work, so I'd suggest it's worth the
> effort/time/cost to have him build something for you.
>
> Bernard
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers
> [mailto:framers-bounces+bernard=publishingsmarter.com at lists.frameusers.com
> ]
> On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 7:14 PM
> To: 'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.'
> Subject: Re: [Framers] ANN: Bottlenecks
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I demoed something like this in one of my webinars a few years ago. The XML
> file looked like this:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <dialog title="Set Variable Formats">
>   <group id="DocumentTitle">
>     <statictext label="Document Title:"/>
>     <edittext value="ILLUSTRATED PARTS CATALOG SUPPLEMENT"/>
>   </group>
>   <group id="ChapterTitle">
>     <statictext label="Chapter Title:"/>
>     <edittext value="Front End Parts"/>
>   </group>
>   <group id="ReleaseDate">
>     <statictext label="Release Date:"/>
>     <edittext value="Sep 30/14"/>
>   </group>
>   <group id="RevisionCode">
>     <statictext label="Revision Code:"/>
>     <edittext value="A/C 5538"/>
>   </group>
>   <group id="ProductName">
>     <statictext label="Product Name:"/>
>     <edittext value="Widget"/>
>   </group>
> </dialog>
>
> Each group represents a variable and variable definition. The variable name
> is the group id, and the label is a more human readable form. And the
> edittext value is the desired definition. The resulting dialog box expands
> vertically to hold all of the groups in the XML file. Whatever values the
> user enters in the dialog box become the defaults the next time the script
> is run. To add, delete, or edit groups, you edit the XML file. The script
> runs on the active document or book.
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com>
> On
> Behalf Of Chris Despopoulos
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2018 5:35 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: [Framers] ANN: Bottlenecks
>
> I actually got this working, but I never finished it...  I was hung up on
> hosting it on a web site, when hosting it on the file system would probably
> be more useful...
> Anyway, an XML file that captures sets of variables and definitions.  You
> can swap out for a book by choosing the set and importing it.  And add to
> that just plain old book-level variables...  A scrolling list with all the
> user variables, their definitions, and a tick-box for change/leave as-is.
> Go through the list, set your variables, click DO IT, and your book is
> transformed.  No need to hunt for a file to import formats, no dealing with
> the clunky variable GUI (this can be much larger and easier to use).
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