It would be great if FrameMaker would allow two separate views of variables one for system variables and another for user variables. It could be a tabbed item on the variable pod or at least sectioned in the variable view. Otherwise one spends a lot of time searching around for user variables that are inserted among all the system variables in alphabetical order. Another feature that would bring FrameMaker into a vast range of technical writing would be to create a pod for Database document creation giving Framemaker the ability to connect to a database via ODBC and import or map table rows into the user variables. This should have always been a feature in FrameMaker but we are all still waiting for it and spending a fortune in programming and special programs just for something all of the major desktop publishers have like wordperfect.. I mean where is even a mail merge in frameMaker yet you are touting framemaker as a replacement for Word with respect to long document and it should be. FrameMaker is a backbone program for a lot of data driven documents but why are you making us all jump through all these hoops just to connect to a data source and use the data in an efficient way? Oh yea framemaker has the ability it just hasn't created the facility right out of the box. Which should be a new feature of framemaker.
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