Variables based on paragraph tags at the book level?

[Combs, Richard]

Jason Nichols wrote:
 
> For example, it'd be nice if I could define – in the footer of each
> chapter in a book – the Running H/F variables to pull in the document
> title, product name, and version number based on what appears on the
> book's title page (based on paragraph tags that are used only in the
> title page file).
> 
> Or, is the only way to set up those kinds of book-wide variables to
> define our own variables in one file and import them to all the other
> files in the book?

Document titles, product names, and version numbers are exactly the sorts of things for which you should define user variables. And use them not just in the footer, but on the title page and throughout. When marketing decides to change the product name, you'll be glad it's a variable. :-)

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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