In FrameMaker 2017, Text insets can damage paragraph tags

Question

I tried to learn more about text insets in FrameMaker. This is what happened:

I've linked a simple module file TextInset.fm into a container file Test.fm.
Then I selected and deleted the inset in the container file.

"Warning:" is an entry in the paragraph tag's Autonumbering. So far - so good.

Now I tried to change the paragraph tag of the first line. But nothing happened. The line still keeps the Autonumbering and, of course, the whole tag:

I deleted the Autonumbering Format on the Numbering sheet of the Paragraph Designer and deactivated Autonumber Paragraphs. But the f*** Autonumbering is still alive:

Is it me who's wrong? Or is this another FM bug?

Btw:

This was just a very simple test. Anyone out there, who is seriously using text insets in FM, and is NOT thinking about suicide or killing FrameMaker?

Winfried Reng · Accepted Answer

Hi,I do not know why this happens, but sometimes the paragraph which holds the text inset gets an additional tag <PgfLocked Yes>.With this tag you cannot change the paragraph format of the particular paragraph.You can see this tag when you convert your FrameMaker file to MIF and open the MIF file in a text editor and search for the text in the paragraph. (E.g. enter xxx or something like this in the paragraph before you save as MIF.)When you delete this tag in the MIF file and save and open the MIF file in FrameMaker, then everything should work again.Best regardsWinfried

Stefan Gentz · Answer

Well, there are probably some 100 million FrameMaker documents in the world using text insets. I guess if all their authors would have commented suicide, there would be not a lot of tech writers left ;-)

But jokes aside: It’s a little bit difficult to understand with this description what you are trying to do. Are you saying that you cannot change the style definition of a paragraph in the container document that had a text inset linked into after deleting this text inset?

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