Chapter Titles in Master Page Footers

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Hello again Peter,

If I am reading your instructions correctly, you are suggesting that I can format the Chapter Title variable to any style I like. But I think that is where the confusion is lying.

In the image that follows, I show the master page with the Chapter Title variable in it.  I have applied the Heading 3 style to it, since that is the style I use for my chapter titles.

Now look at the image below, which shows the first page in a chapter. The name of the chapter is Welcome to Poser!  That is the text that I would like to appear in the header.  But instead, RoboHelp is picking up text from the most recent Heading 1. In my case, Heading 1 defines the manual name.

Does this screen cap illustrate the issue?

With screenshots showing the of your master page and your output showing how it is not giving you what you want. Mock up something.

I have explained how to apply a style to Chapter Title in the master page applies that style to the title in the PDF. Show me where it is not doing what you want.

This needs images, real or mocked up. 

Peter, 

Thank you again for your reply but I think there is still a miscommunication as to what I am trying to achieve. So I will give it one more try and hopefully this time I can explain it more clearly. Due to the way RoboHelp is using the Chapter Title placeholder I don't think there is a solution for what I want to do.

Let's take a look at the TOC in my project. Which looks like this:

 Now ... let's say RoboHelp is parsing through that as it compiles the PDF pages.  It looks to me like the way it functions is "When I get to text that uses the Heading 1 style, put that text in the footer as the Chapter Title." You'll notice in my screen cap that the Heading 1 style is used for the manual title, and as you have noticed that is what the Chapter Title variable is picking up.

If you look again at my TOC, what I WANT to happen is, when RoboHelp gets to text defined with the Heading 3 style, I want THAT text to display in the header or footer, because that is the chapter title. Those headings are highlighted in Yellow.

I hope this makes more sense, because I am not sure how else to explain it.

I have replied offline. When the issue is resolved, please update the thread with the correct answer.

The project sent to you earlier is outdated at this point. 

I will send you a link to the updated project, and will explain why I made the changes I did.

In my case Section 1 won't work. In the case of the largest manual, it has 7 sections. Each of the sections has multple chapters within it. So at this point, the sections are one level higher than the chapters.  So my experimental project looked like this::

Section 1

     Chapter 1

        Topic 1

        Topic 2

     Chapter 2

          (more topics)

     Chapter 3

          (more topics)

Section 2

     Chapter 4

          (more topics)

     Chapter 5

          (more topics)

     Chapter 6

          (more topics)

It appears that in my case the Chapter Title placeholder won't do what I hoped it would do. 

I saw the image after replying. Section 1 is your chapter title. In the master page you can style it any way you like by applying the required style. 

Something is not coming across in this exchange. I can add some examples at the end of the week. 

In RoboHelp top level sections (books) are the chapters.

Yes. Same thing. The Chapter Title placeholder returns the topmost section in the TOC. There is no way to specify any other level or formatting style or anything.  Even to have the ability to designate a topic as a chapter would be helpful.