Jim Pinkham wrote: > I think what we do is a bit ancillary to what you're asking, Nancy, but > I'll mention it, FWIW. On the title page of our manuals, we include a > variable that we populate, but not insert or print, called "Version." > There we'll say something such as this: "5/12/2009 -- This manual was > created using our new April 2009 U.S. FM 9.0 template, and based upon > the previous manual for Order No. 99999999, the ThermoFrazzler O-WOW for > Acme Paper, Timbuktu, AL." It gives us a point of reference when we go > to do an updated manual for the next ThermoFrazzler. Or when we try to > figure out why and how a specific manual may have deviated from the norm > for similar manuals.
This is a fine concept, but I think the execution could be improved if you avoided using a variable to store the information. The biggest issue is that a user variable with a standard name is vulnerable to overwriting if you unintentionally import variables from anothe title page file. (Of course, nothing unintentional *ever* happens in real life...) If you instead put the information on a reference page or in the placeholder text frame on a master page, you've made it easier to find the information and made it much more impervious to accidental deletion or overwriting. -Fred Ridder
