[Framers] Hallucinating Re: Script/ to sort files in a FrameMaker book file?

[Simon BUCH]

You are not hallucinating Craig, I have observed this behaviour many 
times before.

If you're using Windows Explorer to add files in to a FrameMaker book:
a. select the View > Details menu item in Windows Explorer, and click 
the "Name" column header to sort by the file names
b. use a mouse to click and select files
c. hover over the first file in the selection, then click and drag this 
range of files in to the FrameMaker book

If you're using the FrameMaker Insert > Files... menu item / "Add files 
to book" dialog:
i. select the range of files
ii. click the "Name" column header to sort by the file names in REVERSE 
sort order
iii. click Add button


NOTE: If you use FrameMaker Structured books, I have observed some 
occasions where dragging files to sort the order of the files in the 
book will cause the Structure View window to get the files in the 
structure branch completely inverted.  When this happens, additional 
book operations can cause FrameMaker to crash.




On 21/05/2020 17:12, Craig Ede wrote:
> Well, I must have been hallucinating because in the copy of FM10 I happen to have on this computer, adding a selected group of files results in a reverse numerical order adding of the files no matter how you select them in the Add Files to Book dialog.
> Ex. Files are added in this order: Test4-fm, Test3.fm, Test2.fm, Test1.fm no matter the order of selection.
> That seems really arbitrary to me.
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> Craig
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