Set attributes

Understand how to set attributes or conditional tags after creating filters for a topic in Adobe FrameMaker.

After you create the filters in a topic, you can use these filters to show or hide content based on applied attributes. To filter content in a topic, you apply attribute values to the elements in the content. You then create filters based on the attributes applied to the content. To show or hide the content based on the filters, you need to apply the specific filter to the content.

For example: You have applied the @audience attribute to different elements (with the values admin, author, and enduser). You then create multiple filters:

(audience="admin" or audience="author")

Filters content targeted at administrators and authors.

(audience #ANY)

Filter content targeted at administrators, authors, and end users.

This means that you will apply a different filter depending on the required output.

At any point, you can apply only one filter to a topic. This means that you can create any number of filters and then depending on the required output, you apply the appropriate filter.

To apply a filter, do the following:

1. Choose View > Filter by Attribute to open the Manage Attribute Expressions dialog.

2. To filter the content, select Show as per Expression and select the required expression.

   For example, the following expression filters content that is tagged with the @audience attribute set to admin or author:

   (audience="admin" or audience="author")

   This implies that any element tagged with the @audience attribute set to any other value is excluded. However, if an element is not tagged with the @audience attribute, it is not excluded.

   In the Filtered Text group, you choose how to filter the content:

   Hide

   Hide content as per the filter expression.

   Preview with color

   Display the font color of text as per filter expression with the selected color. Use this option for review purposes.

   Note: Use this option for content that is text-based. For example, if you apply this option to a table element, the font color of text in the table is not applied.

   Apply Condition Tag

   Apply a conditional tag to the filtered content.

   From the drop-down list, choose the conditional tag. The selected conditional tag is then applied to the filtered content.

   For example, say the audience attribute of conditional elements in a topic are tagged as admin, author, and enduser. If you apply the following attribute filter to a topic: filter

   (audience="admin" or audience="author")

   The filter excludes elements tagged as enduser. If you choose the Apply Condition Tag option, the selected conditional tag is applied to the excluded elements. For details on how to apply conditional tags and show / hide content using conditional text, see Conditional text.

3. Click Apply.

   Note: If you add any new element later and apply the attribute value, you can click Preview Filter by Attribute in the Structured Access Bar to preview the content based on the filters.