variable date incorrect -- how to fix

[Ken Poshedly]

Fred et al,

I created a new variable "Issue Date" and specified April 2010 and it works.

The reason for this? We sent a half dozen or so pdf files with the then-current issue months to the parent company to print in China back in December and January. We're STILL waiting. So I want the flexibility of changing that Issue Date just in case a book we're working on now gets pushed back a month or two.

-- Kenpo in Atlanta




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From: Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com>
To: poshedly at bellsouth.net; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Fri, April 2, 2010 4:10:10 PM
Subject: RE: variable date incorrect -- how to fix

"Creation date (long)" is a system variable that references the file creation date in the Windows file header. You can modify the *format* of how this variable is displayed and printed in the document (e.g. changing from "Month dd, yyyy" to "dd Month yyyy"), but you cannot change what the date is because it's being extracted from the file's OS metadata.

If you're looking to insert a specific date (rather than referencing a date that is managed by the file system like the creation data and the last save date), you will want to define a user variable that contains the specific text string you want. Or am I misunderstanding what you are trying to accomplish?

-Fred Ridder

 
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:44:46 -0700
> From: poshedly at bellsouth.net
> Subject: variable date incorrect -- how to fix
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> Quick question that I can't seem to find documented in FrameMaker 8.0 (on a Windows Vista platform).
> 
> I inserted a variable for "Creation date (long)" in my master page footer and it displays July 1998.
> 
> Where is the feature to allow me to specify a desired month and year?
> 
> -- Kenpo in Atlanta
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