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I use FM12 (unstructured) to make the documentation. My workflow is to work with modules. I make for each passage a module (fm.file) at the end I insert the modules to make the chapters (also fm.files). After that I create a book with the chapters.
My question: We make a new template with new page looking, new paragraph formats, new tables, etc. So I also had to adapt also all modules with the new template. I have more than 1000 modules. Did you have a script to put all modules to a book – so I can inport the new template to all modules? Or do you have an other way how I can insert the new template to all my modules?
Thanks for help.
Olivera S.
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I think you may be able to do this without a script – copy a list of the modules from your file explorer, turn it into a .mif file, open the .mif in FrameMaker and use File > Import > Formats as usual.
Here's an example I just made, starting from an existing book:
<Book 12.0> # Generated by FrameMaker 12.0.4.445 <BookComponent <FileName `<c\>cover.fm'> > # end of BookComponent <BookComponent <FileName `<c\>intro.fm'> > # end of BookComponent <BookComponent > # end of BookComponent <BookComponent <FileName `<c\>ikl.fm'> > # end of BookComponent <BookComponent <FileName `<c\>akl.fm'> > # end of BookComponent <BookComponent <FileName `<c\>tkl.fm'> > # end of BookComponent <BookComponent <FileName `<c\>keysTerminal.fm'> > # end of BookComponent <BookComponent <FileName `<c\>keysReader.fm'> > # end of BookComponent
You may need to dig into the .mif documentation if you have to include more complex paths.
Good luck!