Have you thought of displaying these and other useful reminders, hints, keys, legends, indicators, etc., in header/footer or other non-main-content areas on master pages? You can contain them in anchored frames whose parent paragraph was conditionalized so that a single show/hide command would be the only action needed. This "master" condition name and a brief instruction could be displayed in a non-printing color, so it would always be visible.
This is one missing FrameMaker feature that, IIRC, has never been requested, namely a place to display such info outside the main content area. Layout applications, like InDesign, offer such non-printing bleed and slug areas. In FM, the convention has been, when needed, to design oversize pages and use cropping marks. HTH On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims...@gmail.com> wrote: > Earlier I got excellent advice on how to build conditional expressions. I'm > hoping someone here has thoughts on the above. This question actually > concerns the same set of files with 8 or 10 different condition tags in it. > > My boss has a hard time remembering what each condition indicator is > actually indicating. As a result, he has asked me to create numerous > versions of the document set that have various conditions turned on, but > only one of the indicators being visible. > > That is to say, if the document has conditions A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H, > he wants to see the information tagged A, D, F, and G, but he only wants > the INDICATOR for F to be visible. > > Right now I'm using MIF snippets to reset the colors for A, D, and G to > black on white (having discovered that As-Is just doesn't cut it), and > another MIF snippet to reset them to their normal colors, but it sure would > be nice if I could toggle the indicators for individual conditions. The way > I'm doing it is a bit error prone, and it is also very tedious. > > Is this something that could be done with an ExpressScript or MIF editing? > Is it worth putting individually toggleable condition indicators in as a > feature request with Adobe? Am I the only person with an issue like this? > -- > Lin Sims > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ > framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ > listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
