Shared Cover pages for three books

I like Barb's suggestion, but you might find it easier to create conditional text for the titles and keep the same single cover page file setup. As Barb mentioned, there are many paths available...here's another option that lets you keep the single file you already have (had?) in place.

Creating and applying 3 simple conditional text tags would make it easier to make formatting and common content changes to all three versions of your cover pages, instead of making the same changes to three different files. After applying the tags, you can use the 4th button in the Conditional Tags panel to show only the title you want, and to show (or hide) the conditional text indicators as needed.

-Matt

The components in a FrameMaker book are simply pointers to FrameMaker documents. So if you change a variable in a document that is shared by multiple books, that change will be seen in each book. Typically what you would do is open your current book and edit the variable for the cover for that particular book and produce output, etc.

Hi @Tina-Louise.Allaire:

When I edit the Product Name variable and change the name, it applies that name to the cover page throughout all the books

...because they are all using the same file.

It's a single page. Is there a compelling reason not to have one for each file? If there is a graphic on it, it will be linked so you can still change all three at one time.

~Barb