Error report saying: Couldn´t update this book, because it contains no openable nongenerated files

[monicaskoldhammar]

When I try to update a generated book I get an error report saying: Couldn´t update this book, because it contains no openable nongenerated files.

How do I do?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Check to see that they aren’t read only – test by opening all the documents in the book first

[Andreas Jansson]

Hi Jeff (and anyone else who might have an idea of what to do)!

I'm trying to help Monica with this question as well.

To begin with, this question concerns FrameMaker12.

You were correct that the files of the book were locked (View only).

Some more background:

The document files are originally created as MIF, from an external application. That application then makes an F_ApiSimpleSave call to FrameMaker (http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/framemaker/fdk/10/fdkprogrammerguide.pdf‌), thus producing the .fm files for the book.

In version 12 of FrameMaker the F_ApiSimpleSave call obviously results in "View only" files, which in our case is not good at all.

The call to produce fm files from MIF has been unchanged for many years and versions of FrameMaker.

Why does the F_ApiSimpleSave call to FrameMaker produce these read only (locked or View only) files, and more important: what can be done about it?

Thanks,

Andreas J

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

You may want to spin this off as a question in the FM Scripting forum..

[Andreas Jansson]

Okay, thanks. I've repeated the question in the FrameMaker scripting forum: Breaking change in F_ApiSimpleSave saving documents in FrameMaker12