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Dustin Fleming
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January 31, 2020
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Running Heads tutorial

  • January 31, 2020
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I was looking at a tutorial by Barb Binder about how to create a list of effective pages on the Rocky Mountain Training site, I know that I would like to incorporate this into my documents but I am missing some knowledge to make it work. 

The above-mentioned tutorial assumes that the reader knows how to create "running heads", Chapter numbering, list of paragraphs, and variables. I am fairly confident in my knowledge in all of those except how to create/configure running heads in my document. 

 

If someone can point me in the direction of such a tutorial or can break it down into more simple terms that are outlined in Barb's tutorial I would be grateful as this would save me an immense amount of time each time I have to update documents. Thank you in advance.  

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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January 31, 2020

Try - https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-framemaker-even-smarter-running-heads/

or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcL1nInakUk or https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/2015/using/using-framemaker-2015/frm_single_sourcing/Add_variables_to_headers_and_footers-.htm

 

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    Dustin FlemingAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 31, 2020

    Jeff, 
    This was certainly helpful but what I was hoping for was something non-printing that will output to the front matter as the document is updated. Now, this may be a misunderstanding of what Barb was speaking too in the blog post I referenced so if that is the case then please excuse my ignorance. Below is the one step in the process of generating a LOEP that I am struggling to figure out. 


    Each chapter in your book will need to have running heads set up with an empty template frame with a flow tag* that can accept the revision number/date on the body pages. These frames are added to the master pages. Assign clear, concise paragraph tags to format the running heads (i.e., Revision#Left and Revision#Right for the left and right pages). You will generate a list of paragraphs using these paragraph tags in step 3. (*Consider removing the auto-connect property from the template frames so that a novice FrameMaker user won’t accidentally overset text in a frame and generate unintentional extra pages.)

     

    I have variables set up in the footer that shows the original author-date and the last revision date so I have figured out how to use auto-generated variables now I would like to take is a step forward and have a list of the changes generated. Thank you again for any assistance you can point me towards. 

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