RE: FM (2015) text insets - no track text edits when imported...

["David Artman" <david -at- davidartman -dot- com>]

   My apologies! Not a user of tracked changes in FM, and so I made an
   unfounded assumption that they would work via text insets (Retain
   Source Formatting doesn't even preserve them!?). That they do not is
   sad, frankly, or a major oversight/bug.

   I DO know, however, that conditional text is visible in text insets and
   can be enabled/disabled at the BOOK level. So maybe stop using tracked
   changes (i.e., 'automatic conditionalizing') and use standard
   conditions (e.g., Deleted and Changed)? You couldn't use the easy
   accept/reject functions; BUT you could maintain a full revision history
   within the FM file(s) and just set Deleted to Hide and turn off
   condition indicators when making final deliverable(s). Should you rev
   the files, you just do a one-time pass to delete Deleted-tagged content
   and de-conditionalize Added-tagged content, and you're back to a 'clean
   slate' for the next round of review(s). Finally, if you  REALLY want
   ALL history in the file(s), append a version/release number to the
   Deleted and Changed condition names (e.g., Deleted-1, Changed-1;
   Deleted-2,Changed-2; etc.).

   [We do this in DITA using platform and rev attributes--even down to the
   phrase or word level!--in conjunction with ditaval files for each
   ditamap: FULL history of a file within its DITA code, not just in the
   CCMS or in ZIPped archives of down-level files.]

   Sorry I couldn't get you further along....

   David

   -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: FM (2015) text insets - no track text edits when imported...
   From: "Monique Semp" <[1]monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>
   Date: Tue, November 24, 2015 1:56 pm
   >> Have you tried using text insets for reused content, instead of copy
   and paste?

   Bummer. I just tried using a text inset that has tracked changes
   showing. But whether I import it by reference or by copy, the result is
   the same: the track text edits do not show. That is, itaEUR(TM)s the
   same result as just copy/pasting regular text within the FrameMaker .fm
   file. I believe that IaEUR(TM)ve tried all the possible options for
   aEURoeFormatting of Imported FlowaEUR, and none result in getting the
   tracked changes to show up in the file into which the inset is
   imported.
   The FrameMaker help doesnaEUR(TM)t seem to address the possibility of
   tracked edits in text insets, in any fashion that I could see.
   (IaEUR(TM)ve looked in detail at the sections for track text edits and
   for text insets, and it seems like theyaEUR(TM)re totally independent
   things.)
   ThataEUR(TM)s quite a pity, and IaEUR(TM)d be pleased to hear any
   suggestions for workarounds or other options that would get me to where
   I want: easily showing, in multiple docs, the revisions to a topic
   thataEUR(TM)s shared among multiple docs. (IaEUR(TM)m using
   unstructured, so perhaps the Structured version would help. But
   IaEUR(TM)ve certainly no time to deal with converting things to
   DITA/structured now.)
   -Monique

References

   1. mailto:monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net
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