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I think it has to do with the ability to have spanned cells. But
also I don't think that you can conditionalize a cell object. You
can conditionalize the content within a cell, but you can't just
"remove" (hide) a cell in a table. You'd have a hole. <br>
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Yes, theoretically, if you didn't have spanned cells, you could
hide/show the cells that make up a column, but since there is no
"column" object, there's no place to assign that data. You can
conditionalize rows, but cells are a bit of a different beast.<br>
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It would be possible to make a plugin or script that would assign
a condition to the content of all cells in a column, but you'd
have to actually delete the cells that make up that column to
"hide" it.<br>
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The closest thing to a column object that you could assign a
property to for this purpose would be the "colspec" element in
DITA. But in looking, that doesn't allow the outputclass attribute
(or other likely attributes) where you'd assign a value that you
could check for during some publishing process to hide/delete that
column.<br>
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If I were to want to do this, I'd probably set a marker in the
column header to indicate a hide/show property, then set up some
sort of process during publishing.<br>
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Yeah .. might be a nice feature, but it's fraught with issues.<br>
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...scott<br>
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On 2/2/15 7:23 AM, Lin Sims wrote:<br>
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<div>Playing with Frame12's (yes, we FINALLY got to upgrade)
new conditional tag interface, and something occurred to me
that has before but I never got around to asking.<br>
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WHY can't Frame apply conditional tags to table columns? It's
not a feature I particularly need (although there's been a
time or two it would have come in right handy), but I've been
curious about this for a while. I'm guessing it has something
to do with the original internal structure, so I'm hoping
those who have been long time users might have some insight.<br>
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I don't need an answer fast. :) Technically, I don't need an
answer at all, but I'm still curious.<br clear="all">
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