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SarahPrice10-Marble
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December 5, 2011
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Auto Generated Bookmark Nesting Issue

  • December 5, 2011
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I'm using the atidmd:DocumentMetaData tag to produce automatic bookmarks however I cannot get it to nest correctly. I have a chapter level title that I'm capturing then a subpara title within the chapter.


My string declaration is as follows:


Chapter Level: <stringdecl textid="chapbmtitle.txt" hotlink="1">


Subpara Level: <stringdecl textid="para0bmtitle.txt" hotlink="1">


My savetext for the chapter and subpara tagsare as follows:


Chapter Level: <savetext textid="chapbmtitle.txt" conrule="!&lt;atidmd:Bookmark state="closed"&gt;&lt;atidmd:Title&gt;!,\CHAPTER \,chapnbrtxt,\. \,chptitle,!&lt;/atidmd:Title&gt;!,para0bmtitle.txt,!&lt;/atidmd:Bookmark&gt;!" placemnt="after" append="1">


Subpara Level: <savetext textid="para0bmtitle.txt" conrule="!&lt;atidmd:Bookmark"><atidmd:title>!,para0bmNum.txt,\ \,p0title,!</atidmd:title></atidmd:bookmark>!" placemnt="before" append="1">


My usetext on the root tag is as follows:


<usetext<br/>source='!<atidmd:documentmetadata>
<atidmd:outline>
!,chapbmtitle.txt,!
</atidmd:outline>
</atidmd:documentmetadata>!' placemnt="after"></usetext>


My result is the Subpara Titles under Chapter 1 is showing up under Chapter 2. If I change the status of my string declaration for the para0bmtitle.txt to 1 then I get all the subpara titlesfrom each chapter listed under each chapter bookmark.


I'm using Arbortext 6.0 M020 - Direct to PDF. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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    naglists1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    December 5, 2011
    What happens if you change the status to 1 and the append to 0?

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    SarahPrice10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    December 5, 2011
    I changed the append to 0 on the para0bmtitle.txt and the status to 1 on the para0bmtitle.txt string declaration, I get the LAST subpara level title nested under Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 bookmarks.


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    bibach1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    December 5, 2011
    When you say the Chapter 1 subpara titles are showing up under Chapter
    2, do you mean they're only under Chapter 2, or under both Chapter 1
    and 2?

    I'd guess you just need to reset para0bmtitle.txt between chapters by
    adding something like this to your chapter e-i-c:

    <savetext textid="para0bmtitle.txt" conrule="\\" placemnt="before">

    You might also set placemnt="after" on the Subpara bookmark savetext,
    just for consistency. I'd expect you'd need that for it to get the
    title, anyway, unless you're using XPath or a status="1" string
    variable.

    -Brandon 🙂


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    SarahPrice10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    December 6, 2011
    Thanks for your response.

    When I add in the savetext to reset the para0bmtitle.txt I get all the subpara titles that are under chapter 2 nested under both chapter 1 and chapter 2. :-(!

    And yes I do have my string declaration set to at status of 1.

    Sarah
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    bibach1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    December 6, 2011
    Setting a string declaration's status to 1 makes it a
    "time-independent" variable, which means that any references to its
    value will be deferred and resolved "in the future" (on another
    formatting pass), after the formatter has finished with the variable's
    scope, which is the whole document, by default, but can be set to some
    element, like a chapter.

    You don't want this behavior. You're building each chapter's
    bookmarks at the end of that chapter and all of the information you
    need is present when you reach that point, so there's no need for the
    time-independent variable. Remove the status="1" and I think you
    should get what you want.

    -Brandon 🙂


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    SarahPrice10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    December 6, 2011
    As always your explanation and suggestion worked like a charm!!! :-)!!! Thanks so much!!!

    Sarah
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