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Hi allMy user guide has several section title pages, which detail what users will find in the chapters in that particular section.I've been asked to create a link from each bullet in the section page to the relevant chapter.I don't want to include the chapter title in the bullets in the section page.For exampleMy first chapter is called "Getting Started".Before this chapter, there is a "section file", which says something like"This section contains details of the following:How to get started with productInformation contained in chapter 2information contained in chapter 3"I want users to be able to click on the text "How to get started with product" and be taken directly to the start of chapter 1.I don't want the bullet in the section page to read "Getting started".Is there a way to do this?Thanks in advanceLaura

Hello All,I am trying to create new DITA topic as new task , getting following error on Frame Maker Console.Can some one suggest , what can be done here to avoid the error.Not getting required template.[Moved to Structured forum by moderator]

Hi.  According to the documentation, the default sort order for indexes is <$symbols><$numbers><$alphabetics> with hyphens, nonbreaking hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes ignored by default.  Nothing about underscores, so they should be sorted on first, right?  But they are not in my document.  Example:PaymentModule_Order_HeadPaymentModule_OrderPayment_CapturePaymentModule_Order_TabsWhat I want to see is:PaymentModule_Order_HeadPaymentModule_Order_TabsPaymentModule_OrderPayment_CaptureIs there an easy way to fix this so underscores have precedence over alphabetics?  I've tried rearranging the building blocks every which way but nothing seems to work.

I've had to break up a chapter into four smaller files, because otherwise my FM10 installation chokes on the referenced graphics and dies on its feet while attempting to generate a .pdf.With a deadline looming – of course! – the owner has decided he wants more informative headers.<$paratext[h1,:h1_n]> pulls in the required information … but seems to be cut off at the file boundary. The :h1 in the first of the files is Registration, which is picked up as expected, but not in the three files that follow; and which don't have a :h1 paragraph.The quick'n'dirty solution, I think, will be to hard-code the headers for subfiles 2, 3 and 4. I was just wondering whether there might be a more elegant solution – so, not one that involves redefining :h1 to be somehow invisible, white on white and taking up no space :-}Thanks in advance!

I am upgrading to a new laptop. How do I migrate my workspace files so that I don't have to rebuild my workspace from scratch on the new machiine?

Hello All,We have a proprietary XML format. We've built a custom structured application (EDD, template, read/write rules) in FM12. How does FrameMaker support XPath (or anything that works similarly to XPath)? Is it possible to manipulate our custom XML elements using XPath and/or ExtendScript? For example, is it possible to find an element by an XPath query or something similar to XPath programmatically? Many thanks!

From FM 12, I am only being given the option to save as mif12 or mif7.Unfortunately, SDL Trados only supports MIF files from versions 8 to 11. So mif12 throws an error that the FM version used to create is too new, and mif7 throws an error that the FM version is too old.I've already tried "tricking" trados by editing the header of the MIF file manually to show version 9 point something, but it doesn't make any difference.How can I get around this?

Hello All,Can someone provide technical and functional difference between RoboHelp and Framemaker tool.Client want to move out from RoboHelp and need to implement the Content Management System like Documentum for more re usability and better end user experience.Any one have comparison of things between these 2 tools.Things can be achieved by RoboHelp cannot be achieved by FrameMaker?Thanks in advance!

I've recently installed Framemaker 7.1 and finding it an excellent ddp program.Using the table custom ruling and shading is giving me issues. When I apply a custom ruling to a cell, row or column, then apply, save close the file then open the change are unsaved, any ideas what I am doing wrong, I've been reading everything available on custom ruling and shading and cant seem to find an answer.Any help would be gratefully received.Duncan

Hello All,I am installing FrameMaker 12 trail version and following below steps to integrate / install  Documentum sample application.as per below.http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5254Unable to complete the 3rd step as below.3. Replace the ditafm.ini in your user directory to the one available in 'FrameMaker_StructuredApplications' directory.I do not find ditafm.ini file in installed user directory (location of windows folder structure).. can some one compare in their environment and check the same. I am doing feresh install so I just have to copy from "FrameMaker_StructuredApplications" or it should have old file need to be replaced as per mentioned in 3rd step ?Thanks in advance

Hello,I'm rapidly approaching a Tuesday deadline. So right on que, I created a pdf of a large book for review and subsequently, FM froze. I restarted and now some files in the book appear to have become corrupted. FM10 crashes on open so I can't MIF wash. I am on Windows 7, FM10.0.02.419.Any help is appriciated!

Our company requires us to use framemaker 11 > I purchased 4 lisenses for framemaker 12.   I just installed frammaker 12 and I'm trying to figure out how to down grade to framemaker 11 bc my company doesn't support 12 yet.

I cannot find the info on how to insert an Inset into an existing AFrame using ExtendScript. Does anyone have experience with this?ThanksJang

Hello fellows,I have recently tested the "Compare Books" utility available in FM10. It works well except for the following:1. Does not create a BookCMP file, so if you would like to create a book out of the resulting CMP files, you have to create such a book or rename the CMP files and put them back in the original book. 2. When comparing changes between tables, Framemaker does not highlight the changes but just brings the 2 versions of the same table into the CMP file, which is really confusing.I wonder if anybody else uses this feature and how you deal with these 2 problems.Thanks!

Not knowing much about notification, but believing that I wouldn't do anything that couldn't be undone, I experimented with using notification in an old script (which I'll call oldScript.jsx for reference) in order to (have my script) learn when a document or a book got closed.  The code line that I inserted in oldScript.jsx was:Notification(Constants.FA_Note_PostQuitDoc, Constants.FA_Note_PostQuitBook);          // Register for notificationsI also added a stub for handling the notification callback.  I didn't get far enough to write the callback code.I added oldScript.jsx to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker10\startup folder and started FrameMaker.  After deciding that I no longer wanted to register for any notifications, I removed the registration line above (and the callback handler stub) and renamed the script to newScript.jsx (and put it in the startup folder after deleting oldScript.jsx from the startup fo

I am using FrameMaker 11 with Team Foundation Server 2010 and have a question about managing graphics.We have several people working on the same book file (all in different locations).Everything works very well except we kept running into issues with the graphic files.We used to import all the graphics by reference, but it became difficult to manage the graphics outside of the frame files using TFS.We have since copied the graphics into the Frame files which makes the file sizes very large.I am wondering if anyone has experience with this and knows of a better way to manage the graphics.Any info would be much appreciated.Cheers,Mack

Can someone tell me how to write a script for creating a variable, named DocDate, that contains the value of the Modification Date (Long) system variable? Or to write a script that creates a variable,named DocDate, that contains the current date??? I can't seem to find a whole lot of documentation on ExtendScript script writing.

Hi allMy colleague has noticed something very strange in Framemaker 12. He's created a new character tag, applied it, and hey presto, a change bar appears.We've checked the character designer, and Change Bars is not selected for that character style.This only seems to happen for styles that he's created recently.When he applies the default font option, the change bar disappears.Anyone got any ideas?ThanksLaura

Hi.In the FM10 manual, it says the text of the index entry in the Marker panel can be entered up to 255 characters (127 Japanese double-byte characters).But, When I entered 500 English characters or 300 Japanese characters, the index marker can be generated and no message to tell me the markertext is too long.In the FM7, if I entered more than 256 character or 128 Japanese characters, FM7 shows the message that marker text is too long.How many characters in the marker text limited in FM10?Regardserieru103

Hi,I'm a newbie trying to unlearn my InDesign mindset to work in FrameMaker. What is best practice for producing figure numbers to accompany diagrams throughout a document? A quick CTRL+F in the Framemaker 12 Help book doesn't seem to point me in a particular direction. Do diagrams need to be inserted into a table, where there is a cell for the image and a cell for the figure details in another? I've read that I should  use a letter and colon in the tag to keep it separate from other things that update, e.g. F: (then figure number descriptor). Is there anything else to be aware of, such as when resetting counts for chapters etc?Some details:Framemaker12.There are currently 116 chapters (aviation subjects) to make.Each of these chapters will be its own book in pdf form, some of these chapters run to over 1000 pages.Figure number ideally takes the form: "Figure (a number from one of the 1-116 chapters used) - figure number" e.g. "Figure 34 - 6." would be the the 6th image in the boo

I'd like to be able to sync the personal dictionary between my desktop and laptop computers. Can I put the personal dictionary file in a Dropbox folder, for example?

We just upgraded from Framemaker 7.2 to 12, and there's a behavior I can't figure out. I have a book file with cross-references between FM documents. Before, in FM 7.2, when I used Ctrl/Alt+click to activate a cross-reference link and follow the marker to a different Frame document, it left the original document open, and also opened the document the link caused me to jump to. In FM 12, it is closing the original document every time I click on a link to follow it. Is there a preference setting or another way to stop Frame from closing the first document every time it opens the document the link is referencing?

Hi All,After migrating from Win XP to Win 7, my FM files ver.7.2 has font overlapping issue for 2-byte Traditional Chinese.Besides, I have having problem updating the patch file to p.158 which prompt me that "GetDiskSpace failed". Could anyone help me on the 2 issues above?thank you in advance!regards,Penny

I am trying to set up a PC to build some documents during the night. I was looking for a way to get framemaker to generate PDF and CHM files via a command line in windows? How is this done with FrameMaker 12Thanks for the help Alex

I am using FM 11. I have 18 files with lots of figures and perhaps this is part of my issue. It seems to take between 1 and 2 minutes every time I save. Is there some setting or some trick I can use to shorten the time FM takes to save my book or chapter? Thanks.