24.2.2 Creating table groups

You can assign group names to tables, and then apply properties to all tables in the group with a single setting. Each table can belong to one table group. You can create table groups two ways:

Create table groups in the configuration file

Create table groups with configuration markers.

Create table groups in the configuration file

To create table groups and assign tables to groups in the configuration file:

[TableGroup]

; TableID or format = group name used in other Table sections for ID

; the filter first looks for TableID, then group, then table format

TableID = tablegroupname

FM table format = tablegroupname

For example, suppose your document contains table types you use for charts (FormatA and FormatB), and others you use as containers for text frames (FormatC and Unruled). Suppose you used one Format C table for a chart instead of a text frame. You could group the renegade table with the other chart-type tables by specifying its TableID:

[TableGroup]

FormatA=charts

FormatB=charts

aa654321=charts

FormatC=textframes

Unruled=textframes

Create table groups with configuration markers

Another way to To create a table group, or assign tables to existing table groups, is to insert configuration markers in the tables in your FrameMaker document, with content as follows:

[TableGroup]=tablegroupname

This way you can avoid having to look up TableIDs and FileIDs. See §33.2.9.3 Overriding table properties for HTML.

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