Yes .. excellent idea. BTW .. if you want an easy way to make an uber book, check out our ComboBook plugin (it's free) ..
http://leximation.com/tools/info/combobook.php ...scott Pinkham, Jim wrote: > Very cool idea, Carla. Thanks for this! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martinek, Carla [mailto:CMartinek at zebra.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:07 AM > To: Pinkham, Jim; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Tracing the Lineage of Text Insets > > Jim - > > You don't need to run the archive plug-in on each book. What you can do > is generate an LOR (List of References) file. Showing text insets is > one of the options you can select when you create that file. You're > still going to have to touch multiple files and/or books, no matter what > you do. > > Depending on how your file are stored, you *could* create a new book > just for this where you copy in all of the files from all of the books > (or folders). Then add an LOR generated file the list. > > On the reference page setup, use these building blocks (you can remove > the default pagenum building block if you don't need it). > > <$fullfilename> -- <$referencename> > > fullfilename = name of the path and container file > referencename = name of the text inset > > You will get the full path and file name of the container document, and > then the name of the text inset. Use a tab to divide the two building > blocks so that you can easily convert the text in the generated list to > a table and then sort it by the text inset name. > > Hope this helps. > > -Carla > > - CONFIDENTIAL- > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may > also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you > may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive > this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email > and then delete this email. > > > >