RE: Numbering errors when generating books

["Dauphin, William M." <william.dauphin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I may have this wrong, but I believe every time you generate a book, you are
temporarily setting the numbering properties of the individual files to
those specified in the book. That is, if you went into the file that is
Chapter 3 in a given book and checked the document properties, you'd see
that the chapter number was set to 3. If you now include that same file in a
different book, where it's not the third but the second chapter, the first
time you generate that book you're applying numbering properties from the
book that are not consistent with the most recently set properties within
the file.

This isn't usually a problem, since the properties set in the book are
usually the ones you want, and they override those in the file by default,
but it's not unreasonable for Frame to warn you it's happening. "It's a
feature, not a bug."

As long as your multiple books use the files in different ways -- and they
must, or why have different books in the first place? -- I'm not sure I see
a way around it... unless, as others have suggested, there's a way to turn
the warning feature off.

-Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Hurtel [mailto:vhurtel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:52 AM
To: art.campbell@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: framers@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Numbering errors when generating books


It's exactly what we do. We generate each book using the Edit menu.
But none of the shared files have distinct numbering properties. All the
settings are identical.
So why does FrameMaker tells the contrary ?
We want to establish a pre-set generation properties, in order to simplify
FrameScript book generation automation.
So we don't want to have to re-set each book one after the other.

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: mercredi 14 septembre 2005 17:31
To: Vincent Hurtel
Cc: framers@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Numbering errors when generating books


This is a very basic question, but you didn't mention it in your
description, so:

You are updating each book by clicking the Update icon in the book file
(or the Edit menu) each time you build the book, aren't you? And when you
do that, the Update Numbering checkbox is activated?

Also, if you're working with multiple books containing the shared files at
the
same time... don't -- the changes or updates you make in one will affect
the second, and vise versa. If you're going to use shared files, build one
book all the way to completion before working in the second and modifying
the settings of the shared file(s).

Art






On 9/14/05, Vincent Hurtel <vhurtel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello All
> I'm working on several books with FrameMaker 7.1.
> Many of these books use common files not as text inset but as framemaker
> files inserted in the necessary books.
> I put attention to give each independant file uniform numbering
properties,
> I reported these properties for each file in their books.
> Although all these careful settings I always have "Inconsistent Numbering
> Properties" alerts when generating some of these books.
> This alerts means that numbering properties specified for the independant
> file are different from the properties specified for the file in the book.
> I checked the numbering properties for the independant file and for the
file
> in the book but there is no difference.
> Most of the time that alert appears when the common file is inserted in
two
> different books just after the TOC file. It seems that when the TOC file
> contains different number of pages in the two books, FrameMaker is unable
to
> give a continuous numbering to the next file in the book when that last is
> also used in another book. It works well for the first book generated, but
> FrameMaker displays its "Inconsistent Numbering Properties" alert when
> generating the secund book.
> Has someone already encountered this type of problem ? Is it possible to
> solve it ? I would like to automate book generations with framescript, but
I
> would like to set before a generation process without any errors.
> Thanks
> Vincent
>
>
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