Primary text frame threading behavior

[RokP]

I'm working on templates for an article in two journals (journal A and journal B).

Parent pages
Two parent pages: (1) "txt" for pages after the title page and (2) for article "Title page". "Title page" is based on txt. Parent page "txt" works.

• Parent page for "Title page" in journal A has five threaded primary text frames (Figure 1).
• Parent page for "Title page" in journal B has two threaded primary text frames (Figure 2).

Document pages

The pages in the document behave differently:

• Journal A (Figure 3): the threading works in the documet as threaded on the parent page
• Journal B (Figure 4): the threading doesn't work in the document.

All the frame settings and object styles are the same, as far as I can tell. I can't find the explanation for this behavior.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Rok

Figure captions

• Figure 1: Journal A, parent page view
• Figure 2: Journal B, parent page view
• Figure 3: Journal A, document page view
• Figure 4: Journal B, document page view

[Anna Lander]

On the screens, all looks good. Could you please share the working files with only parents or with any placeholders to look at them more closely?

[RokP]

Thank you Anna.

I tried to upload my .indt or .idml files, but this site refuses them.

This is the location with both files on my shering server: https://cloud.organigator.com/d/efc25554a8434df288ff/

Please give me a shering suggestion, if my link is not acceptable.

Thanks

Rok

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Hi @RokP , There can only be one Primary Text Frame per Parent Page, so I don’t think there is a way to thread multiple text frames on a parent page via Primary Frames—you’ll have to use regular text frames on the parent spreads.

This is from CC2020 where I have a mix of threaded primary and regular text frames.

Text added to the primary textflow

From Helpx:

[RokP]

Hey @rob day,

If what you are saying is true, than I have a bug to report :-).

In one of my journals I have multiple (five) threaded text boxes on one parent page and they work as described.

Please check my files. You can find the link in my reply to @Anna Lander.

Thanks

Rok

[rob day]

I misread your first post. Try dragging the H parent on to page 1

[RokP]

@rob day: works like a charm, thank you very much.

I believe this is undocumented featrure and a can bi useful sometime.

Rok