AboutWayne Johnson Expertise Basic set-up of books, master pages, generation of List of Effective pages (LEP), Indexing, auto-numbering. Various ways to import graphics, including advantages and disadvantages of importing into a text frame or importing into a "blank" page. Using a "book" to generate PDF files, with hyperlinking. Customization of function keys, currently setup for Frame 7.0 i.e. change F1 to turn "Change bar" On and Off, F2 to "Cut" a selection, F3 to copy, F4 to Paste, F6 to set line to "TOP OF PAGE" and Shift F6 to start line "anywhere" these can be easily your current config files and if you do not like them - old config files can be restored.
I have no expertise in Structured Framemaker, (i.e. XML or SGML).
Experience 10 years working with Framemaker, all version through Version 7.0
Primarily writing to Aviation ATA spec 100. Currently responsible for maintaining all company published maintenance documents in Framemaker and PDF and making them accessible through the company intranet.
Expert: Wayne Johnson Date: 1/11/2008 Subject: Framemaker Templates
Question Hi Wayne. I can't believe I can't find the answer to this in all I've read about FM's templates. What could be simpler than wanting to know which template was used for a document? In Word I can find out which templates is 'controlling' my document with two clicks. What do I do in FM? I'm using FM for the first time and am finding it very frustrating. I've got to look after a lot of documents that I've inherited - I open each one and want to know what template was used. I've created a lot of test documents using a variety of supplied templates but after specifying the template I can't find a way of seeing what I selected. So..to summarise...how can I tell which template is 'controlling' a document - in other words what template is the document using?
Answer You might try going to FILE - FILE INFO and see if the previous editor entered any information that might help you.
If there is nothing in any of the fields, then I would do the following.
Any file can become a template with Framemaker Open, go to FILE - NEW - DOCUMENT, then in the "Look In" Box - navigate to where your file is that you want to use as a Template, Select the File so it appears in the "USE TEMPLATE" Box (do not OPEN it), then just select the "NEW" button and you have your new file.
You can also just open a "blank" document by going to FILE - NEW - DOCUMENT then next to the "blank document" box - select Portrait - Landscape - Custom.
Now open a document from which you want to use the various settings.
Go back to your "Blank" document and now select - FILE - IMPORT - FORMATS, then in the "IMPORT FROM DOCUMENT" Box select the second file you opened (the default selection in the box is "current," so you will need to select your second file from the dropdown list). Then in the area below select or unselect the various check boxes for the items you want to import - and then select IMPORT and everything you selected will be imported into your new file.
You can also use this feature at the Framemaker "Book" level, so you can do multiple files all at once.
If you really want to keep track of where you file came from then use the FILE - FILE INFO and fill in what you need to track the information you want.
Hang in there - once you spend a little time with Frame - you will start to like using it alot more than Word.
On of the nice things about Frame is - if you want a different date on each page - just draw a text box and put the date in - not like Word where you have to create a section break every time the header or footer changes.
Hope this helps.
Regards, Wayne
