One Flow on Right Pages Different Flow on Left

The issue is you want Flow A to be on right hand pages and Flow B to be on left hand pages, and you want autoconnect to work.

To borrow from a post in December 2006 from Peter Gold:

The goal is to have on the Left Master Page, and the Right Master Page, one page-sized text frame tagged with the flow name (for example Flow : for Right, and Flow B: for Left.) Also required on each master page is a very small tagged text frame of the opposite flow (Flow : on the Right master, and Flow : on the Left master.) The small frames need to be too small to contain any character, but I seem to recall that if they're too small, the process fails.

The underlying principle is that when the text frame, Flow A: on page 1, a Right-master-controlled body page, overflows, FM creates page 2, a Left-master-controlled body page, where the text moves through the too-small Flow: A text frame, then it creates page 3, and puts the text into the large Flow A: frame.

All the fiddling I've done seems to indicate that a too-small "helper" text frame might be the cause of failure. It might be good to start with two medium-sized text frames on the master pages, one tagged Flow A: and one tagged Flow B:, and test that this works as expected. Then, shrink the A flow text frame on the Left master, and the B flow text frame on the Right master, until they don't display text on their body pages.

I have posted a FrameMaker 7.1 file that follows Peter's steps and seems to work. The only thing I added was to make pagination even. (There's an oddity with end of flow tags and flow B, but this template, based on the default portrait template, seems to work.)

http://www.pubsink.com/FM7_TwoFlowsDifferentPages.zip.

If this link doesn't work, see the next post.

I cannot promise that the file will be available in a year from now, but will try to keep it there.

Cheers,

Sean