Marking as new in FrameMaker

[RickHenkel]

I'd like to be able to have my writers mark headings as new in FrameMaker. I would then import the Frame files into Flare 5 and have those topics appear as new in my WebHelp output TOC.

I can't figure out any way that this would be possible, but I thought I'd see whether anyone else has an idea.

[GregStenhouse]

There is no elegant solution I can think of. I guess you could always add text like "|NEW" to the end of each heading, then open the imported TOC in a text editor, and search and replace
|NEW"
with
" MarkAsNew="true"

Cheers
Greg

[RickHenkel]

Thanks, Greg. I think I may be able to get that to work pretty easily.

[mattbnh]

Have you looked at passthrough markers in Frame?
Flare help actually talks about using these to put info in a Frame doc that comes through in the import process.
It says you can have Flare treat the passthrough marker as a complete XML tag.
Maybe that would allow what you are looking to do.
I disclaim that I haven't used these, just noticed them in the import process and looked them up.

[RickHenkel]

I use passthrough markers for lots of other things, so that was the first thing I tried for this. The passthrough code appeared in the actual heading, but did nothing to the TOC imported into Flare.

I had thought about adding the passthrough markers in the FrameMaker TOC, but they would disappear when the Frame TOC is updated.