Using FrameScript to change footer text

[Fred Ridder]

One aspect of well-designed templates is that the headers and
footers should be identical (or I should say identically constructed,
meaning built from the same system variables even if those
variables will have different values in different chapters) across
all or most of the files in a book. If that is the case, you only
need to update the master pages in *one* file per book, and
can then import that formatting (identified as Page Layouts in
the Import Formats dialog) into all the other similar files in the
book in a single operation.  The ability to import various types
of formatting from one file into a whole book's worth of files
has always been one of FrameMaker's biggest strengths..

If the headers and footers are constructed differently from
file to file, I think you're going to be stuck doing them manually
because a script will only work properly if it is dealing with
similar constructions.


>From: "Kelly McDaniel" <kmcdaniel at pavtech.com>
>To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
>Subject: Using FrameScript to change footer text
>Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:02:36 -0500
>
>I'm running FrameMaker 7.0 and FrameScript. I need to change the footer
>text from:  "BrandX Reference Guide - Volume VII - Functions" to "BrandX
>Reference Guide - Functions".
>
>Most books contain many, many files. Editing the Master Pages by hand is
>a bear. Is there a scriptable method?...thanks.
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