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ashrae-editor
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January 17, 2019
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EDD Creation/Editing Resources?

  • January 17, 2019
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Are there any good, readily available (free to use/download) resources for creating EDDs specifically and Structured templates generally? I'm looking for something much more in-depth than the "Create an EDD" topic in the Help files, but the Structure Application Developer Reference doc focuses more on the application development side and doesn't seem to go into much detail on EDDs.

For example, in trying to set up general rules, I can't find information on what wildcards are available, their format or use, how parentheses are used to group items, etc. I also don't see much on how to set up formatting rules.

Thanks!

JMW

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Correct answer Russ Ward

Hi JMW,

I think you have the wrong book. Try this one:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/pdfs/Structure_Dev_Guide.pdf

All this stuff used to be in the same book. I guess now it's split into a "reference" and a "guide." I'm not sure of the wisdom in that.

Russ

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ashrae-editor
ashrae-editorAuthor
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January 18, 2019

Thanks again, Russ!

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Russ WardCorrect answer
Legend
January 18, 2019

Hi JMW,

I think you have the wrong book. Try this one:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/pdfs/Structure_Dev_Guide.pdf

All this stuff used to be in the same book. I guess now it's split into a "reference" and a "guide." I'm not sure of the wisdom in that.

Russ

Ian Proudfoot
Ian Proudfoot
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January 18, 2019

Russ,

The reason for splitting the original guide into two volumes was to mirror the FDK documentation. One guide book to learn the principles and the other comprehensive properties reference to use while developing. When I did the split I also added a lot of previously missing information. Ultimately I would have taken it further, but ran out of time.

The biggest down-side is the potential to miss one or other of these documents when searching.

Ian

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Russ Ward
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January 18, 2019

Hi Ian! I didn't realize I was talking about your work! Good thing I didn't elaborate

In truth, I thought the content went well as a single book, but I can't possibly complain that somebody is actually maintaining the documentation. In the case of the FDK, I think the content could also be in a single book. When viewing the content on a screen, I think the page count is not relevant. And we all know that FM can handle it on the authoring side.

But this is just my opinion. Thank you for keeping some life in the documentation. I have relied heavily on both the Structure Ref and the FDK Ref throughout my career and have always regarded them as some of the best technical documentation I've ever read. Except for my own, of course.

Russ

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