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rachelt14433776
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January 10, 2019
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Show/Hide Conditional Text Anchored Frame Issues

  • January 10, 2019
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I have applied conditional tags to show/hide a certain section within my document. This section includes images as well. However, when I "show" this section, the anchored frame, not the image border, appears in a thick black box, yet this anchored frame was set to invisible when I set the Conditional Tax.

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Correct answer LinSims

That's actually not what I'd like to do   I'd like to hide the information tagged. However, when I add it back in, I don't want the anchored frames to appear in black as I've shown in the screenshots attached. I want no black border to be added around the image.


If you have show condition indicators on when the condition is in the Show column, you will have a border on any anchored frame that has a condition tag, just as you will have a border on a table row or column that has a condition tag.

As I said, if you create a separate condition tag for just the anchored frames that has everything set to as-is, it PROBABLY will not have a border added even when the show condition indicators is on, but you won't be able to use the same condition tag for both the text and the graphic if the conditioned text has to be visibly different from the non-conditioned text when the show condition indicator is on.

If you turn the show indicators off, there will be no border on the graphic frame, but you also will not be able to tell what information has been conditionaled. There is no way to have some condition indicators on and some off.

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LinSims
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January 10, 2019

The border is there to give you a visual indication that the graphic has a condition applied. If you turn off condition indicators, you won't see it.

LinSims
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January 10, 2019

NB: This is the case from, I think, FM12 onward. Earlier versions did not provide this feature.

Jeff_Coatsworth
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January 10, 2019

Sorry, not really seeing what the issue is - if you've applied the condition to the anchored frame, then set it to hide, does it hide it or not?

rachelt14433776
Known Participant
January 10, 2019

The anchored frame is appearing in black but I did not set it to do so and want it to stay invisible when I apply the conditional tag. It looks like this before I add the conditional tag to show/hide - it simply should show the gray boarder I added to the image, with the anchored frame invisible as opposed to black.

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 10, 2019

Still not quite following - when you apply the condition to the anchored frame, it doesn't do anything to it at that point; you have to use your Show/Hide settings for anything to be hidden. Are we looking at your FM content here or some output format (like PDF?) Maybe you need to turn on your Text Symbols to see exactly what you've applied the condition tag to.