FrameMaker parts lists

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If my company has an Excel spreadsheet of all of our part numbers (we are a manufacturing company) is there a way to automate a parts list and have the output end up in a FrameMaker table?

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frameexpert

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I did a lot of these over the years because FrameScript, a third-party scripting plugin for FrameMaker, can read and write Excel spreadsheets directly. Now with ExtendScript built into FrameMaker, I typically use XML to FrameMaker so the Excel content has to be exported to XML first. ExtendScript can't read/write to Excel directly.

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frameexpert

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FrameScript is still available though so you could still go this route if you want to.

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OregonAlumAuthor

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Frameexpert,

Thank you so much for the response. I was wondering if you know if this would work with InDesign as well?

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Dan Toner

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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Give one of the scripting gurus a shout - like @frameexpert or Russ Ward, etc. Do a quick forum search for "scripting" to get more guru-hits (because my brain is fried right now & I can't recall them all)

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