Two automatic page numbering for the same page

Question

I'm trying to help a customer who's working on a book. The client is not using the "Book" feature in InDesign, rather just a normal InDesign document.
They placed automatic page numbering that goes from 1 for the first page, and 1378 for the last page, however, they want to apply an additional set of auto page numbering for each of the stories within the book. 
 
For example, page 324 is the beginning of a new story, the page number 324 is visible already on the bottom right corner of the page, yet they want to display number 1 on the bottom left corner of the same page as this is the start of a new story and subsequently next pages for the same story will run 325 on the bottom-right, and 2 on the bottom left and so on.
 
Do we have a script for this task? Or, any other InDesign native work around?

Laubender · Accepted Answer

Hi Zaid,I thought about my workflow again.No Primary Text Frame needed for what I like to do.Here we go: [1] Add one text frame on both pages of your parent page.Thread both text frames. [2] Prepare a story with text for your page numbers according to the stories of your document on the pasteboard of the first spread with two facing pages where the numbers should start. The story could containauto numbered paragraphs or a plain sequence of numbers, one number a paragraph. Set the Start Paragraph options of the text to "Next Frame" in the applied paragraph style(s) . [3] For backup duplicate that text frame with the number story that is now in overset because of the Start Paragraph setting.. Then load all the text of the story to your cursor. To do that click the outport of the text frame, then delete the text frame. [4] Hover the loaded cursor with the numbers over the text frame from the parent page when you are on a document page. Hold the Shift key and unload the story with a click. That would move the whole story in and threads the whole story frame by frame and page by page. Regards,Uwe Laubender( ACP )

m1b · Answer

I think there is a native way to do exactly this: please see this article, and scroll down to "Create variables for running headers and footers". The idea is that every time a certain style is used, eg. For the story title, that variable is incremented.
- Mark

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