Content from body appearing in footer and header of pages

[twoten]

I have been having a problem for the last couple of days since adding design frames to my page layout.

Some of the content that should be in the main body of the text is appearing in the header and/or the footer of the page and I can not figure out why.

I'm reasonably new to using Flare so I have no idea where to start looking. I have changed the size of the body and this had no affect. I have copied the margins of a document that isnt currently being impacted like this but the xml and pdf output are still not showing this information correctly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[ChoccieMuffin]

Welcome to Flare and to the forums, twoten.

Have you looked at your page layouts to make sure your body frames don't overlap your header frames? That might cause content to look as if it's in the wrong place.

[twoten]

Thank you ChoccieMuffin,

I have checked the page layouts and the body frame is not overlapping with my header frames at all. I thought that may have been the case too but unfortunately, it wasn't.

[ajturnersurrey]

Maybe you have already checked this, but...
Are you certain you used actual Header and Footer frames in these positions (check Frame Properties > Flow says Header or Footer), or are they in fact Body frames positioned where the header and footer should go?
Flare will happily flow text into several different body frames on one page.

[twoten]

I did check that as I believed that I may have made that error but they are definitely header and footer frames. Which confuses me even more.

[ajturnersurrey]

I can only suggest taking a look at the code of your page layout file. (This is generally my last resort.)

It should be structured something like:

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<Page Name="Left"....>
         <Frame Flow="body"...>
         </Frame>
         <Frame Flow="decoration"...>
         </Frame>
         <Frame Flow="footer"...>
                   <Content>
                   .....
                   </Content>
          </Frame>
           <Frame Flow="header"...>
                   <Content>
                   .....
                   </Content>
         </Frame>
</Page>
<Page Name="Right"....>.....etc

There might be more than one of each frame type in a single page. In which case, have a look for FlowIndex="1", FlowIndex="2" etc to see where the content is being told to flow first, then second. I have known these to get mixed up when I have copied and pasted page layout elements from one page layout to another.
Best of luck. That is the limit of my page layout debugging!