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Dear all, Since quite a number of FM version the Marker Pod shows the selected marker only if it is open, before t he marker symbol is selected. This makers it impossible to get the marker text visible in the pod for the setting "Auto-collapse Iconic Panels" (FRMAKER-10962 ). Please vote on this! Test - Have a marker symbol selected in the document- Open the Marker Pod→ Nothing is displayed- Going back to the document closes the Marker pod according to the settings- Place cursor behind the marker symbol- Open the Marker PodThe following allows to see the marker contents, if the mentioned setting is OFF):- In the document select the marker symbol→ If the setting is ON, this operation immediately closes the Marker Pod... WorkaroundDo not use "Auto-collapse Iconic Panels" = ON for certain work. This is clumsy, as the setting is welcome in most cases.

While creating a task in DITA, the Steps element contains Step > Step Result element. If I insert the Step Result element, the text "Step Result:" is also displayed in my published output. I would like to use the Step Result tag, but I do not want to see the Step Result text being displayed in my output. I have gone through the style guides, edds, dtds, but don't know where the text is coming from. Please help.

Hello Guys, Can FM Backup Files be automatically saved in a specific location rather than where the main file is?  ThanksDaniela  

I have several table styles.  When I change the color of the border row in a table of one style, FrameMaker makes it the border color of every table of every style in the document.  I don't want this to happen; some styles are supposed to have black borders and other styles are supposed to have white borders.  Does anyone know how I can fix this?

The Much Greater-Than character, >>, is shown in Character Palette for Times New Roman as 226B. When I add it to my document in a paragraph with a default font of Times New Roman the question mark character is displayed instead. Any ideas of why this is happening? I don't see the character in the Symbol font but perhaps someone with sharper eyes can find it.

I want to *type* the arbitrary block of text, have that block be clickable and jump to some arbitrary place without replacing the originally typed text with anything at all. <$paratext> overwrites the text I've typed with the text of the xref's destination.  I don't want to overwrite anything - I just want to go to the destination. (I have a Part List - and I want to highlight the Part Number and have it linked to the Parts Page. However the Cross-Reference includes the Part List and Description, which is too long and does not fit in the table. I do not want to include the Page Number, since I want to keep the table simple and uncluttered.)

In my FrameMaker book, I have a red squiggly underline below the word "to" throughout my book.  What is the cause and how can I fix it? Thanks!

I have a ditamap open in FrameMaker and it is actually a Doc object in ExtendScript. Is there a programatic way to see which topics are selected in the map? Thank you very much.

PDF creation stalls on the same page in a large book file. File is over 500 pages and has a lot of graphics. Tried everything. Deleted all content on that page. Deleted the page itself. Deleted just the graphic. Nothing seems to work. It works on my co-workers computer. It has worked previously on this same file with no problems. using Frame 2017.Thanks for any help!

I tried converting a project to HTML5 using the settings below using Fm 16.0.2.  These are the same settings I've used for years, so I was surprised that the output contained <p class="BodyLevel1"> instead of converting to <ol> with nested <li> tags. I then created a new test file with Fm 16.0.3, using a blank default document and a new STS file, and the same results. So, anyone able to convert to HTML5 using "Convert to List (using CSS autonumbering)"?  If so, any ideas why my conversion is failing?   -Matt   PS, it looks like there’s been a shift in processing…I don’t remember seeing: <div> in the body "Use Source Style" mapping of para tags behavior:  Was Bulleted maps to <p class=“FM_Bulleted”> Now Bulleted maps to <p class=“Bulleted”>  

I have an unstructured with a large number of chapter files and would like to group several of the chapters into a single chapter. The autonumbering for the heading paragraph styles is set up like this:Heading 1 is H:<$chapnum>Heading 2 is H:<$chapnum>.<n+1>< =0>Heading 3 is H:<$chapnum>.<n>.<n+1>< =0>Heading 4 is H:<$chapnum>.<n>.<n>.<n+1>I created a hierarchical book that looks like this:Chapter 1.fmChapter 2.fmFolder1 (Numbering Chapter no. is set to continue from previous chapter)---> New Chapter.fm (H1 top level; numbering Section no. is set to 0)---> Group1------> Chapter 23.fm (H2 top level; numbering Section no. is set to continue from previous section)------> Chapter 10.fm (H2 top level; numbering Section no. is set to continue from previous section)------> Chapter 15.fm (H2 top level; numbering Section no. is set to continue from previous section)and so on.The autonumbering Chapte

FrameMaker Version 15.0.6.956Good morning. I'm having some trouble with table anchors and text running to the next page. In case this description is confusing, I've attached a diagram.I have two pages, and on each page is a table the fills up about 1/2 of the page. Beneath each table are some notes about the table in a Table Notes style that I created. All in all, each table should take up about 2/3 of the page. I've set both tables to start at the top of their respective pages so that both fit nicely on each page.For the first table, I have the anchor at the end of the paragraph (Body text style) on the page before. The table starts at the top of the page as expected.For the second table, I have the anchor at the end of the last Table Note (the notes listed below the previous table).The problem: The last Table Note on the first page (the one that has the table anchor) wants to jump to the next page, and the the table starts on the page after that, so that the Table Note is all al

Folks:I would like to insert a cross reference "access groups" for a source "Access Groups". I can find any building block or any other method for doing this. Can anyone help?Jonathan BloemkerCompunetix, Inc.

I keep running into this same issue and I don't know if it's the landscape page format or something else...I'm hoping someone here has some insight. I followed the tutorial for updating the template being used by the sts file and I have managed to get my output printing...however when I try to utilize a template created in landscape format FrameMaker seems to default to a different template altogether that is only portrait and contains none of the custom formatting from my template. I have attempted to edit the .sts file, import element definitions and formats from templates that I know work correctly. I have attempted updating the structapps/EDD files...I feel like I'm going in circles and not getting the results I need. Basically the document that I need to ouput has a large table that needs to be in landscape format in order to be viewed correctly. Thank you,  Laura

Ever since I updated to the last patch/release my DitaVal files have not been working. They worked just fine previously. I decided to look up the User Manual to verify that my DitaVal file is correct or to possibly try to create one using FrameMaker. The User Manual has an error in it here: Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release) where they interchange @ATT (correct) with @10557939 (incorrect) so that was one issue I found. I still have not been able to get my DitaVal files to work with my maps and I was curious if anyone else had this same issue? Or if there's a good way to "force" FrameMaker to process my files?  

I updated an old template, with an old script. To make it more effienct (constant cut and paste) I removed a header row and programmed the new header with Paragraph Formatting. Now the script no longer works.If I read this correctly, the script identifies the table as a "Parts Table" and then runs the "Remove Rulings" script, and then runs the "Add Rulings" script, placing lines where they need to be. But it is broken, because it is not identifing the tables as a parts table or does not find the text "Part".// script in question:function main() //Removes ruling and adds{for (var q =0; q < textItems.len; q++){table = textItems[q].obj;table.HFSeparatorRuling = blargName2;table.HFRowRuling = blargName2;row = table.FirstRowInTbl;if (row.ObjectValid()){topRowCell = row.FirstCellInRow;cell = topRowCell;cell = cell.CellBelowInCol;cell = cell.NextCellInRow;if(cell.ObjectValid()){blarg = cell.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);dude = ""if(blarg.len > 0){dude = blarg[0].sdata;}if(dude.indexOf("

Hello Everyone, I have experience with unstructured FrameMaker only and I would like to explore the structured FM world and DITA. Would you recommend me any training courses? If certification is offered that would be best. Thank you for your help as always 😃 Daniela 

My current Manual Template has a Parts Table that you Insert, but each time you insert it you have to copy and paste the second header row with "ITEM, PART NUMBER, DESCRIPTION, QTY.". I have a script called "Table Ruling" with denifies the second row of the header and if the second header row has "part" in the text - it sets the proper rulings. (ie. thin line after every second number). If the first colum ("ITEM") is blank it will remove the lines between the (what we call the) parent numbers. I went to format the second row with "Paragraph Formats" and it broke the script code, since it no longer has the "Part" as plain text. Is there a way to change the current script to look for a "Paragraph Format = zCellPN" instead.Suspected code I need to change:                                if(dude.indexOf("PART") !== -1) //Checks for a

I loaded Framemaker 2020 and everything is going smoothly except the following two conditional tags are provided by default:FM_PDF_Comments_HighlightFM_PDF_Comments_UnderlineSince I use conditional tags all the time for my work, the last thing I want is two more tags. However, no matter how hard I try, I cannot get rid of these two. I delete them, they seem to be gone, save the file, but when I open the file again they are there again. Does anyone know how to permanently get rid of them. I have lots of manuals and I do not want them in every file in every manual.   thank you

Hello fellows,Just downloaded the latest FM scripting guide and discovered that it does not cover the latest versions of FM in the File Save function.The last save constant listed is FV_SaveFmtInterchange110. Are you aware of any upcoming doc. update? Thanks!Roman

Hi, I try to design a custom dialog box in a .dre file. In FDK programmer guide Tabs are not listed in items type which can be added to a dialog box. But in some of the FrameMaker dialog boxes, there are tabs. Can anyone help me with how to add it?Any help would be appreciated.Thanks,Sanam

Hi Recently I have increased the number of documents that I manage using DITA and FrameMaker to around 120. Then I noticed that FrameMaker crashes while processing the ditaval file for each document, which includes one value per document. Any reason for this? Is there a limit for the number of ditavals that we need to be aware of?Best,Hadi

I have been testing scripts to see how they work and now I have a list of scripts in my history.I have researched how to remove them with no solution."File > Script > History"Is there a quick fix?Thank you, 

Hi All,It has been around a year since I have been writing scripts. Now I have to write a new one and cannot.I can run existing scripts, but if I select File>Script>New Script, nothing happens. No form opens. Likewise, I can open the Script Catalog, but if I select a script and click Edit, the script is not displayed. I'm using FrameMaker 2019 Version: 15.0.8.979.I have tried resetting the 15 folder, deleting temp files, restarting FrameMaker and restarting my latpop, to no avail.Thanks in advance for your help!Aviva

When I open a FM book and its files, the file page is viewable momentarily, and then disappears, leaving only a white page. If I select any menu item, for example: View > Options, the View Options window pops up and the page behind it displays normally. When I close the View Options window, the page disappears again. This only happens on my laptop. The same FM book and its files opens without issue on other laptops. The day before yesterday, I had no problem. What could cause this sudden issue or conflict?