How to set up a Running H/F to call a paratag from a previous file

[Carol J. Elkins]

The reason that the child pages are in individual files is because 
the client isn't sure yet how he wants to organize the content of the 
book. Hundreds of diagrams that could be grouped in various ways. To 
remain flexible, it made sense to create individual files that I 
could organize at the book level.

Xrefs and variables won't work in this situation because I really 
want this automated. If I organize a set of child pages one way at 
first and define a variable representing the "parent," if the child 
moves to a different parent, then I'll have to change perhaps dozens 
of variables. I'll see what Rick Quatro can come up with in terms of scripting.

Thanks everyone for such speedy responses. I was twiddling thumbs for 
a whole 5 minutes before your ideas came back to me. You are great!

Carol

At 04:32 PM 5/23/2013, Combs, Richard wrote:
>As Matt suggested, you can fake it with xrefs (but note that they'll 
>be hyperlinks) or define a user variable for it. Alternatively, if 
>each "child page" is in its own file, you could import its contents 
>(text flow) into the main file as a text inset. Of course, that 
>might initially be about as much work as moving the "child pages" 
>into the main file.
>
>I guess the best approach depends on why the content in these "child 
>pages" was put into separate files to begin with (and whether that 
>reason is still pertinent).