Chapter and Page Numbering variable names for read/write rules
I am trying to get a table of contents to display chapter numbers for a report I am publishing in FrameMaker. The report is exported into XML from Access, then processed through XSLT to get into a structured format for FrameMaker. I asked a similar question at https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/building-blocks-in-toc-for-structured-documents/m-p/14390625#M82579, but haven't yet found a suitable answer so I am considering another approach. I have added a read/write rule that converts the XML into several chapters as a part of a book.
reader generate book {
put element "Chapter" in file;
}This works, but when I pull open the document, all of the page and chapter numbering properties are wrong (everything restarts numbering). The problem is that I want to be able to pull in this report over and over as I continue building it out and add things, but to do that I would have to manually click on every single chapter and fix the numbering properties for each. I am hoping there is a way to modify the read/write rule to set these numbering properties, or some other way to set them, such that I won't have to adjust things every time I pull the report together again. This seems to be a gap in the available documentation, as there is nowhere I am aware of that pulls together a comprehensive list of FrameMaker options available with each type of read/write rule. The structured app dev guide lists the syntax and basic concept, but no further information.
I also considered that this might be something that could be solved in the EDD, but I couldn't find anything there to sort this out.
