Empty text flows in a text inset file?

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I have a Framemaker file containing all my text insets, each text is in its own text frame with a text flow name. All in one page, in one file and with different flow names. No problems using the insets. But, on the second text inset file page, there are empty text frames with the same flow names, all in the same order and all have order, sizes and locations of the original frames. Sometimes there might be more than 2 pages with empty text flow frames (idential pages with empty frames). I have no idea why they keep on appreading, nor I have succeeded to delete them. I can delete the extra frames but they keep on apperaring again while opening this inset file again. Luckily, this seems to not harm my book writing, but I am wondering if this causes some problems at background. I use the latest updated FrameMaker in unstructured mode. MIF wash did not help. I see increased stability problems after the last FM software update. What is going on here? How to fix this?

Matt-Tech Comm Tools · Accepted Answer

Agreeing with Bob...It sounds like the frames are created on Master Pages, and not Reference Pages.Creating your named flows on Reference Pages allows you to import the text flow more easily using the File>Import>File functionality.While you can create named flows on body pages, I find the reference pages are more convenient for storing (many) text flow frames. If you want to use body pages for the flows, you may need to use a master page without body page text flows (perhaps a disconnected page?) so that the master page text frames don't interfere with your individual flows.(Or, as I mentioned, just use one or more reference pages!)For more detail, see pages 444-453 in Chapter 29, Content Reuse with Text Insets in FrameMaker - Working with ContentHope this helps.-Matt

Porichines1988 · Answer

This is a known bug that has been reported before. I have no idea how to fix this issue. If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know!

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