Importing Frame Text Insets

[ltnunes]

I have run into my first Frame to Flare import where the Frame author used text insets. I want to pass along the suggestion I received from Sharon Burton regarding how to handle these. Frame text insets import as text, not import as snippets. The best way to handle these is after the text is imported into Flare.

1. Import the content
2. Return to Frame and look at the first text inset. Identify the first unique sentence in the inset.
3. Back in Flare, search for that unique sentence.
4. Create a snippet that includes all of the text from the text inset.

Repeat for each text inset.

Labor intensive? Yes! Better than losing all of the inset text? You bet!

[GregStenhouse]

Another cunning plan would be to set up your snippet(s) in Flare, condition out (or delete) the text inset in Frame, and include a passthrough marker for each relevant inset. The marker text would be something like
<MadCap:snippetText src="../Resources/Snippets/NewSnippet.flsnp" />

This might be useful if you are linking to Frame source files and reimporting.

[KevinDAmery]

Errmmm, that's fine as long as no one got sneaky and actually changed the text inserts in the Frame doc. If they did change anything, using a pass through would prevent those changes from being imported.

Just a thought.

[ltnunes]

Good point but we're dealing with a one time only import, so once in Flare - no longer in Frame. I forgot to add that Analyzer can also be launched to find additional instances of a text inset/snippets.