Trouble flowing xml into master page

[brendag61244549]

I am flowing xml files into Structured FrameMaker. I am trying to get the final element to flow into the back cover master page. I have mapped the element that needs to be flowed to the back cover page using the StructMasterPageMaps. The element is not flowing to that page. Instead it is flowing to the top of the previous master page, then a new back cover page is being generated after that. How do I get the element to flow into the back cover page?

[Michael_Müller-Hillebrand]

Hi blgeorge,

it seems you want the flow to skip one page, the page before the final back cover page. This is not easily possible, every page has to have at least a single paragraph. The only other options are

• tables spanning more than a page
• a paragraph format set to start at the next even or odd page
• maybe others...

So for your back page element you might want to assign its first paragraph a format that puts it to the top of the next left page.

Regarding Master Page Mapping I am under the impression that for elements it only works if those elements have content assigned, i.e. it does not work for pure container elements which have no representation in paragraphs.

- Michael

[Lynne A. Price]

From your message, I don't understand whether the problem is in assigning

master pages or in the number of pages. It sounds like you may have an

element that is intended to appear on the last page of the document but

instead appears on the next-to-last page. If that is so, you need to figure

out why there is an extra page as well as applying the correct master pages.

Does your "final element" have content? Does your master page for the back

cover have a body page frame? Even if the "final element" has no visible

content, there must still be a text frame to hold the element itself.

--Lynne

[brendag61244549]

As far as I can tell, the element appears on the next-to-last page instead of last page of document when there is data that flows into the right column of the previous page. The previous page layout is 2 column. If data flows into the left column only, the back page data flows correctly into the Back page master page. If data flows into the right column of the previous page, the back page data flows into a new page created with the previous page's master page, instead of flowing into the back page master page.

[Arnis Gubins]

If you have columns as two separate named flows in the prior pages, then the back page must also have the same two named text flow frames. Otherwise, FM doesn't know where to put the content that overflows the container (text frame for named flow), so it uses what it knows about - the previous page's master page layout.

[Lynne A. Price]

Can you provide a small sample file that illustrates the incorrect formatting? In addtion to the mismatched flows that Arnis mentioned, there can be various other causes. What is the paragraph format of the last element in the document? Is it set to start on the top of a right-hand page? Is the document set to make the page count even when saved? Is it in a book and, if so, is it the last component in the book?

--Lynne