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Anonymous
December 3, 2014
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TIV Text variables in footers - Where is my mind?

  • December 3, 2014
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I have been banging my head on this for a couple of hours now, and I can't help but feel like I'm missing something obvious.

In publishing a complete manual, I am trying to publish several chapters, each with their own TOC. I am trying to format the footer in the TOC to read "Page # of X", where X is the total page count for the TOC.

Due to other variables in the footer, I have this built as a pseudoelement, called from the page layout set.

What I'm getting is that I'm getting the last value for my TIV at the end of the manual, so all my TOCs display the page count for the last chapter TOC for ALL chapters. I tried scoping the TIV to the TOC element, which just causes the value to disappear altogether, so I end up with "Page 1 of"

Does anyone have any ideas off the top of their head? Does using the value for the TIV in a pseudoelement for the footer cause this to not resolve correctly?

Jason A. Buss
Sr. Engineering Procedures Analyst
Technical Publications
Textron Aviation
316.517.7749 PHONE
jabuss@txtav.com

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    naglists1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    December 3, 2014
    Wild guess: scope=chapter?

    On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Buss, Jason A <->
    wrote:

    > I have been banging my head on this for a couple of hours now, and I
    > can't help but feel like I'm missing something obvious.
    >
    >
    >
    > In publishing a complete manual, I am trying to publish several chapters,
    > each with their own TOC. I am trying to format the footer in the TOC to
    > read "Page # of X", where X is the total page count for the TOC.
    >
    >
    >
    > Due to other variables in the footer, I have this built as a
    > pseudoelement, called from the page layout set.
    >
    >
    >
    > What I'm getting is that I'm getting the last value for my TIV at the end
    > of the manual, so all my TOCs display the page count for the last chapter
    > TOC for ALL chapters. I tried scoping the TIV to the TOC element, which
    > just causes the value to disappear altogether, so I end up with "Page 1 of"
    >
    >
    >
    > Does anyone have any ideas off the top of their head? Does using the
    > value for the TIV in a pseudoelement for the footer cause this to not
    > resolve correctly?
    >
    >
    >
    > *Jason A. Buss*
    >
    > Sr. Engineering Procedures Analyst
    >
    > Technical Publications
    >
    > Textron Aviation
    >
    > 316.517.7749 PHONE
    >
    > jabuss@txtav.com
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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    Anonymous
    December 3, 2014
    UGH. I found it.

    In the usetext for the pseudoelement for the footer, adding the [BO] modifier for the var in the source got the value to scope correctly.

    I'm somewhere between embarrassed and "HULK SMASH". Need a vacation...
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