Conditional text & graphic

Using FM 9.0 p250, I have an anchored frame on a master page which I've made conditional. It's got some text and a graphic in it. When I'm viewing the master page, I can show or hide it just fine. But when I move it over to the "show" side, it shows on my master page, but not on my body page. What am I doing wrong?

northgrum1 wrote:
Using FM 9.0 p250, I have an anchored frame on a master page which I've made conditional. It's got some text and a graphic in it. When I'm viewing the master page, I can show or hide it just fine. But when I move it over to the "show" side, it shows on my master page, but not on my body page. What am I doing wrong?
You can create two kinds of text frames on body pages, master pages, and in anchored frames.
* A "tagged" text frame displays "Flow: A" or some other letter in the tag information area at the left end of the document page's status bar that's at the bottom of the page, when you click a text insertion pointer in it.
* An "untagged" text frame does not display a flow name.
* On a body page, text frames can be placed on the page, or inside other frames. When either kind of text frame is pasted from the clipboard with an insertion point in a text frame, an anchored frame is created, and the pasted frame appears inside the anchored frame. On body pages, both kinds of text frames act as you'd expect - text in them appears in them, is editable, and can be shown/hidden by manipulating conditions.
* On a master page, things are very different:
- A tagged text frame (Flow: A, etc.) is considered to be a template (model) that creates a duplicate text frame - same size, same location, same color, etc. - on the body page that's controlled by that master page. This us the usual way that the "live typing areas" are created on FrameMaker body pages - a template text frame on a master page controls it.
- Tagged text frames on master pages are templates for body pages; they do not display their content on body pages; they only create a same-size frame in the same position on the body page. (Try it and repeat this mantra until you get it.)
- Untagged text frames on master pages are not editable on body pages; they are backgrounds that appear on the body pages controlled by the master page. (Try it and repeat until it sinks in.)
Your master page text frame is probably a template (Flow: A) text frame; it appears on the body page with a live typing area, but it does not display its content - text, table, anchored frame, etc. This property makes it easy to store documentation in the master page template text frame so it's always carried with the document; however, it's not helpful to users who don't know how to display master pages. The condition setting show/hide makes no difference in this situation; the conditionalized text in the tagged master page text frame doesn't appear on the body page controlled by the master.
One other possibility is that you created the frame on a master page that's not used on the body page(s) you're viewing. For example, the master page text frame may be on the Left master page of a double-sided document, and you've only got one body page so far, page 1, which by default uses the Right master page.
When you create a text frame on a master page, FrameMaker displays an alert that asks you to choose whether the new frame should be background - they show on the body pages and are typically used for headers and footers, etc. - or template, and if template, you can specify a Flow label like "A" or "ChapterOpener," to identify it. You can also specify Autoconnect, the property that causes new pages to be created when you type past the end of an autoconnected tagged frame on body pages.
Read more about master pages, tagged text frames, background text frames, template text frames, headers and footers, flow tags, and autoconnect in Help, and in Google searches that include FrameMaker in the term.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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