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Fred is right, of course. I was assuming that you would have a separate file for each inset, not all your insets in a single flow.<br><br>Roger<br><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: #0000ff 2px solid; margin-right: 0px"><hr><b>From:</b> Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc@hotmail.com]<br><b>To:</b> galson@epicor.com, rshuttleworth@avbasesystems.com<br><b>Cc:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:49:53 -0400<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?<br><br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d">You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to 256. But as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over time, it occurred to me to try it the other way ‘round: That is, to see if the main contents of each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A, with only the four-line metadata in a separate flow. (Which means dealing only with two text flows instead of many.) That’s what I tried and it does work, at least in my first experiments. Can you think of any reason NOT to continue with that? I also wasn’t sure about where to place the new text frame containing the Metadata Flow Tag, so I inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A. I had my doubts whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow A but it seems to be okay.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d"><font color="#000000">No, this will *not* work for your purposes. When you reference a text inset file from a "container" file, you specify which flow to import from. If all the content chunks are in Flow A, then all you will ever be able to do is include *all* the content chunks each time you do an insert from that TI file. The whole point of putting the content chunks in separate, named flows is to be able to reference them as separate content objects. It doesn't matter if all your meta-data text is in the same flow, because you will never need to insert those chunks individually into another document.</font></span></p>
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