Maximum Number of Conditional Tags?

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December 8, 2023
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I have a document that has standard content and 65 customers who have custom alterations to that standard content. Does Framemaker have the capability of handling large numbers of Conditional text tags for at least 65 customers and a color for each of them?

Thank you!

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frameexpert

Community Expert

If you want to create a spreadsheet of Condition Format names, color names, and CMYK values, I will post a free script that will create all of the formats for you.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

Klaus doesn't have a max listed on his Known limits and special properties page.

One practical limit might be the vertical size of the selection menu, and how it behaves when there's more than a vertical screenful.

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

You can extend the size of the dialog to show and hide conditions. Therefore 65 can be handled.

You can set not only the color, but also other properties like underline, overline, strike, background, etc. But it's definitely difficult to differentiate and remember 65 conditions.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

If the Conditions are exclusive (only one on at a time), and just denote client-specific content and document ID, surfing the list is not a problem per se.

What do become problems are:

not stomping on all the other existing conditionalized text when adding/editing. You probably have to turn all the Conditions on to see the entire minefield,
shared conditions, where the same text applies to more than one client, but not to all.

I've done this sort of work for simpler cases, such as for domestic|export and brandingA|brandingB of the same product, and I'm not really sure it economizes effort. It does complicate documenting steps for output workflow. For 65 variants, I'd be pondering othering possible approaches, particularly if any of them want different page layouts, typography, numbering, etc.

Translations are straight out.

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Never heard of a FM limit on conditions, but 65 would waaay exceed my mental limits on managing that!

frameexpert

Community Expert

65 condition formats shouldn't be a problem. There are only a handful of colors built into FrameMaker so you may have to create some custom colors if you want each condition format to have a different color.

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