Complex document with conditional content

[Andrew294676587dpu]

Hello

I have a very complex document at my work, which I'm looking to provide some efficiency around. It's currently built in MS Word and effectively the user needs to delete portions of the 90 page document depending on what content is/isn't required.

My intention is create either a checklist or a series of dropdown options which would then automatically populate the relevant text.

I'm told this is possible using Adobe FrameMaker - is that the case?

Thank you

Andy

[Jeff_Coatsworth · Accepted solution]

FM is great at supporting conditional text - you tag the content with the tags you want & then use the Show/Hide to only create output according to the tags you want to have show.

[Bob_Niland · Accepted solution]

In general Condition Codes can do that. So switching elements like these on and off works:
0. numbered list items
● bulleted list items
⊞ entire table rows or columns

re: …which would then automatically populate…

CC does require that the shown/hidden content already exist in the document.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Andy:

Jeff and Bob are correct. FrameMaker can definitely do this using Conditional Text. More info on how it works here:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/index.html#t=using-framemaker%2FFrameMaker-2022%2Fuser...

~Barb

[frameexpert]

If you are looking to go to structured (XML) content, FrameMaker also has a Filter By Attribute feature that allows you to show/hide content based on attribute values.