Hi All,
I'm running FM12.0.2.389 on Win7-SP1 (64-bit) laptop with i7 & 16GB RAM.
As Arnis had mentioned on a post about using condition tags with tables, applying the condition tag to the insertion point character hides the whole table when you hide that tag. This is the way I've always witnessed condition tags applied to the text inset working, too. However, that's not what I'm seeing now, but I don't know if what I'm seeing is "as designed' typical behavior, or a new change since FM9 (I jumped from FM9 to FM12), or if this is a problem peculiar to my FM installation.
Here's the scenario: I have FM files that are used as text insets in several documents ("inset FMs" for clarity). The entire library of FM files has deployed several condition tags and variables to further accommodate delineations between nearly identical products, US/international English, and shorter output documents from the same set of source files. For sake of discussion, I'll use an example that involves 4 condition tags:
- 3D (product specific)
- LI (product specific)
- Kit (output specific)
- Install (output specific)
Inset FM has both 3D and LI tags as appropriate. Container FM has all 4 tags in play. The text inset insertion marker for the Inset FM is tagged Kit. When I show Kit, I can show either 3D or LI and get the intended results. However, when I hide Kit, any of the text INSIDE the Inset FM that is tagged with whichever product-specific tag still shows, even though the rest of the Inset FM is hidden. I'm happy to provide a ZIP of the files necessary to use as a sample.
I don't remember ever having this problem in FM7 or FM8 or FM9. (I've been an FM user since FM5.5 and using condition tags since FM6.) Is this normal? Is it an as-designed change? Or am I dealing with some kind of weird corruption of my particular FM installation?
Thanks,
Rene