File-renaming functionality for book does not work as expected

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4 total messages Started by Siobhan_Ryan Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:28

#425

Author: Siobhan_Ryan
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:28

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Adobe Framemaker 8.0

I am on Windows XP. Dell computer. Xerox printer.
I follow the basic instructions for renaming a file in a FM book (To change the name of a document in a book:

1. In the book window, select the file you want to rename, and then choose Edit > Rename File.

2. Type the new name of the file and press Return or Enter. When the alert message appears, click OK to update other files in the book.) but I do not get past step 1. Instead an error message comes up that says "The text cannot be changed. To change the name of this file, please display filenames."

What is meant here by "filenames" and how/where would one display such?

Re: File-renaming functionality for book does not work as expected

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Author: Arnis_Gubins
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:02

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Siobhan,

The Book window has two different display modes for the component
files. The first mode displays the file names (Display Filenames), the
other displays the first paratag's contents in the file (Display
Heading Text). 

You can toggle between these modes by clicking on the first
button/icon in the lower right corner of the book window.

You must be in the Display Filenames mode to change the FM file's
name.

Re: File-renaming functionality for book does not work as expected

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Author: Siobhan_Ryan
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:28

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Thank you indeed! I was with your help able to rename the file. However, the Book Error Log barked at me that it couldn't open BadFileName (a reference not to the file I renamed but another file which I not so elegantly dubbed "Conten ts" (with an unintended space between "n" and "t"--maybe this spacing is the reason behind its being dubbed bad?) since it could not be found. Should I disregard the error message or play along and rename "Conten ts" to "Contents". If that's all I need to do to get rid of the error message then of course, I'll do it. Thank you for answering my last question--whether or not you answer this one. Cheers, Siobhan

Re: File-renaming functionality for book does not work as expected

#439

Author: Art Campbell
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:24

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You could try the rename, but if the file had a question mark on its icon in the book, the program really can't find it.
If you have the question mark, delete it from the book and save the book. Then rename the file on disk and add it to the book again.

Just in passing, if the file you're talking about is your Table of Contents.... that should be an automatically-generated file that's named by the system. So it isn't anything that you'd really want to be playing this type of game with. Better to let the system maintain it... which would mean not renaming it.

Art

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