Re: Can FM Conditional Text be ANDed?

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barry,

In a word, no; you can't change the ORing of conditions. The workaround is 
to build all the condition-variations as conditions; IOW, build the AND 
condition combination as a new condition. Then test, test, test.

Note that the colors used for display of conditions will start to repeat if 
text is tagged with two or more conditions (that may not be the case with 
your document, however).

Have you considered other options, like importing text insets into a master 
document, or more than one master document? Managing conditional Frame 
documents gets geometrically (and dramatically) more difficult with more 
conditions. You may be in for a real chore with this one.

Good luck,

Tom Neuburger

The Masters Series FrameMaker 6
ISBN 1-930597-01-0
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Barry Meislin wrote:

>Hello,
>
>A query about conditional text.
>
>In my experience with Frame, if text is defined with (let's say) two 
>conditions,
>the text will appear if either condition is "shown." That is, the logic is OR
>(only one of the conditions has to be shown for the text to be displayed).
>
>However, I would like the text to be shown only if BOTH conditions are
>shown; that is, I would like the text to remain hidden if only one of the
>conditions is "lit" (a logical AND).
>
>Does Frame work this way? If not, what kind of workaround can I employ?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>Barry Meislin
>National Semiconductor


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