As Jeff mentions, it's solely dependent upon what font you are using. You will have to use the unicode value for the hollow bullet glyph (called a "white bullet" at \u9702). Most TrueType WGL4  fonts…

Frank Stearns' IXgen tool can do this. See: Frank Stearns Associates - IXgen for FrameMaker, Main Page

Check your Edit > Preferences > Product Interface setting.

You can specify, in the paragraph designer, that a specific paragraph tag starts at the top of a page (or a Right, Left page or top of column).   You can then apply the appropriately defined tags…

You might have overrides (i.e. the text frames have been extended/shortened), additional graphic frames, etc. on your pages.   If you use Format > Page Layout > Master Page Usage option to force FM…

Your file and/or folder may be set to Read Only or your user account doesn't have the required permissions to write to that location (Group policy?).   This is an operating system level issue.

No.   However, you can create an Object Style (FM11 and later) for this type of AFrame to make consistently inserting the correct size and location a lot easier.

See: Apply master pages automatically: Tutorial   You probably are using a paratag something like ChapterTitle on the first page of a chapter, so use that paratag to map the appropriate custom first…

Not with FrameMaker directly. The Framescript add-on will let you write a script that allows direct access.   The Patternstream product also allows direct connection to a database (i.e. pull…

Gareth,   Please also enter a feature request using the official request route via Bugbase & Wishlist and provide some use cases.