You could always make a "Product-Name-Var.fm" file from a utterly stripped MIF and then manage the BOOK-wide Import that way. Further, if my info design actually kept variables 'discrete' like that (i.e., a file NEVER has a variable it doesn't use) then I'd parse the variable-storage templates to match.
That said, I do not see the benefit of chunking (or 'scoping') variable template files. Maybe there's a happy medium between "all variables in one FM" and "each variable in its own FM" approach, but lacking the energy (or confidence?) to find that medium, I'd go with a single file for all. Which is why a good variable-naming convention that's easy to rapidly type to insert (with CTRL+0) is as crucial as it is for conditional names (CTRL+4/5) and style names (CTRL+8/9): if all my variable names have their first two or three characters unique, it's super fast... and thus, I don't care if I have 50 variable definitions in every file. YMMV; and this, of course, doesn't cover situations where, due to reuse strategies, a variable value might not be identical for each FM file in the BOOK file (e.g., a compiled book of product specs where each chapter is a different product name). HTH; David -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Framers] preventing 2-word product name from line breaks ? From: "Monique Semp" <[1]monique.s...@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, April 06, 2016 5:55 pm > You can update a variable in all .fm files in a .book with a single > import. Yes, but that presupposes that you want *all* the variables from the source file. But in my case, I have different variables in different FrameMaker templates (for frontmatter, ToC, chapters), with only some variables, such as the doc's part number, in all the templates. References 1. mailto:monique.s...@earthlink.net _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com