Chapter Output Template Losing Variables?

[ohne_hosen]

FM2017 / Win 7 / DITA 1.2

Setting up output templates for a DITA application.

Decided that I'd like to include the chapter title in my running header so that it would read "Chapter 1: Chapter Title"

So in my chapter output template, I edited one of the running header variables to accommodate. I believe it was Running H/F 5, which is already <$paratext[paratag]> and I filled in my chapter title style, which is head.0.

So basically, what I'm hoping to get is Chapter <$chapnum>: Running H/F 5 (<$paratext[head.0]>) (obviously, with the correct values in place of the building blocks).

I test with some content, it works in the template, I remove the content and save the template. For good measure, I made sure that I also updated the variable in the other templates I use for book building (Title, TOC, Index).

But now, when I output my map (book with FM components), what I get is Chapter <$chapnum>: with nothing further. I check the variable, and it has reverted to <$paratext[paratag]> without the specified paratag.

Why doesn't the variable definition stay with my template? I don't want to have to manually update it every time I output a book.

[PMYM]

I have same kind of problem. Hopefully my comments brings this question up and someone finds this.

I tried to modify the H/F 6 to display the revision number of the file (For example, concept, attribute rev). I made the modification to ChapterOutputTpl.fm and modified the definition to be <$attribute[rev]>. I added the H/F 6 to the Header.

When I save my ditamap as book with FM components, there wasn't anything in the header. I checked the master page for one of the created .fm-files and I can see the Running H/F 6 in the header but now the definition is the original <$paratext[paratag]>

Any idea why this happens? If I open ChapterOutputTpl.fm-file I can see that my modification still exists.

Br,

Pekka