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<div style="text-align: left;">Hi Chantel<br><br>No, you can have as many conditions active in a file (or book) as you wish (there's probably a theoretical maximum). It's just that handling multiple conditions becomes a nightmare when you get to more than three. One reason for this, but not the only one, is that FrameMaker shows any content that has two or more conditions with a magenta indicator colour. So if you have three conditions:<br><br>Content with ConditionA is red (say)<br>Content with ConditionB is blue<br>Content with ConditionC is green<br>Content with more than one condition applied is magenta.<br><br>Unless you diligently look at the lower left on the status bar, where applied conditions are shown, it's hard to know whether some magenta text is A+B, A+C, B+C, or A+B+C. Add another condition and the number of potential combinations increases exponentially. And if you use different conditions *within* a sentence or paragraph, instead of applying conditions only at the paragraph level, it really does become a quick route to insanity.<br><br>Hope this clarifies what I meant.<br><br>Roger<br></div><br>Roger Shuttleworth<br>Technical Documentation<br>AV-BASE Systems Inc.<br>1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200<br>London, Ontario<br>N5V 3S4<br>Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330<br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> brathwaitec@castupgrade.com<br><b>To:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:44:19 -0500<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Version and Build Questions<br><br>Thanks Roger, Steve, and Ann -<br>
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Multiple book files are the perfect solution. It will make things a lot<br>
easier for me to handle.<br>
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Thanks for the information re: CVS. I think that is going to be the way I<br>
handle builds. I know there are limitations because the files are binary,<br>
but at least we'll be able to roll back to previous builds if necessary,<br>
provided that I tag them correctly.<br>
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A question - Roger you mentioned that there should be no more than 3<br>
conditional text options in the document. Does corruption occur if there<br>
are more than three or is it just a matter of it being too confusing to<br>
follow? Also, thanks for the tip on the appendices. Considering the fact<br>
that changing a file name means breaking with the history in CVS, this is<br>
a particularly important point for me.<br>
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Chantel<br>
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