Is there a way to use a single parent page in multiple documents?

[SteveMcDonald]

Hi All, 

I have searched around and I am having a difficult time pinpointing an answer.  Perhaps I am trying an anti-pattern and that is why. 🙂  (Coding terminology)

I am wondering if there is a way to have a single parent that is applied to all the documents in a book - or if there is a different approach to solve the problem below.

The problem is as follows... Let's say I have 10 documents in a book, each with the same header/footer on a parent page that is part of each document.  I need to make an adjustment in the header or footer across all of the documents.  As it stands now, I need to go to each document's parent page and make the same adjustments in the header/footer - hoping that with precision, the header/footer of all 10 documents is completely identical. 

More broadly, is there a way to have a single template/layout for a header/footer that is linked/applied to all documents in a book instead of manually editing each header/footer for each document?

Thanks!!

[Willi Adelberger · Accepted solution]

1. Select in the indb book panel the document where you have done the changes.
2. Mark in the second column this document as source document.
3. Select all or none document of the panel.
4. Make sure that master/parent pages are selected in the synchronize options.
5. Synchronize via button on bottom of the book panel.

Additional I strongly recommend to work with object styles. For text frames of the header, pagina, footer define position and size and used paragrapgraph style. Define styles relative to the spine as far as possible.

[SteveMcDonald]

This was perfect! Thank you