Skip to main content
_
_JW_
Participating Frequently
October 5, 2010
Question

What to do with a NoName Element

  • October 5, 2010
  • 1 reply
  • 1084 views

Hi,

When I convert from unstructured to stuctured, FM is automatically making the highest level element a NoName.  Is there a simple way to convert NoName into a Chapter element?  Chapter is my highest level...

My best solution so far is to wrap NoName with a Chapter element and then move everything out of NoName manually in the structured viewer.  There must be a better way.

Thanks,
JW

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

R
Russ Ward
Legend
October 5, 2010

JW,

That NoName element occurs when the conversion table process is unable to wrap your content all the way to the top. Either your conversion table contains incomplete instructions, or the process bumped into something that was unexpected and this disrupted the wrapping process. You have several options:

- Deal with it and fix it manually, as you are doing now

- Enhance your conversion table to handle the unexpected situation(s) it encountered

- Remove or fix the unexpected situation in your document

- Use an RE: mapping row in your conversion table to set the root element (this will just retag, it won't fix whatever caused the original problem)


In those sample files I pointed you towards, you'll note that you can wrap all the way to the top, but everything must be in place. If you took one of those sample files and introduced some paragraph format that the conversion table does not account for, the process would break and you would get NoName at the top.

Here's another forum thread about this subject:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2934696

Russ

_
_JW_Author
Participating Frequently
October 5, 2010

Russ,

Thank you again.  Is this conversion table stuff documented anywhere?  The info you have provided is a huge help.  Even if I get nowhere from here on out, I have cut at least 60% off the manual labor time so far...

JW

R
Russ Ward
Legend
October 5, 2010

You haven't read any documentation yet? You are surely a structure superhero then

The conversion table process is described in this doc, the developer's reference:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/structapp_dev_ref.pdf

There is also a developers guide which looks to be quite useful:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/structapp_dev.pdf

Back when I was learning this stuff, those were both a single book called the Structure Application Developers Guide, which I still use. It appears that Adobe has since decided to separate the content into two manuals.

Russ

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices