Hello, I'm currently exploring the feasibility to modify/update what is displayed in the running footer through an API client which reads information from an initialization file, and updates the footer accordingly, like this:
maker.ini ----------------8<----------------8<---------------- [MyInitSection] initfile = TestInit.ini TestInit.ini ----------------8<----------------8<---------------- [Publication1] FooterCenter="DRAFT" FooterBinding="January 2006" Now, it can't be very hard to read these configuration settings from within an API client. However, what I'm currently struggling with is how to access the footer of my document. So far, I've found this: FO_MasterPage -> FP_PageFrame (which is a FO_UnanchoredFrame) -> FP_FirstGraphicInFrame and then -> FP_NextGraphicInFrame (apparently TextFrames are "graphics") -> use this object's objId with F_ApiGetText -> and then F_ApiDeleteText and F_ApiAddText All this comes from reading the FDK reference and the FDK Guide. As I said I'm investigating this because we may hire a programmer to do this (and more), but I'm no C++ programmer myself, so testing out the above would take me quite some time. BTW, we're currently updating the information in the footer through text insets located in a separate file (I guess that this may be your first suggestion to "do it another way"), but we'd like to centralize information like this in one easy-to-manage configuration text file for each publication. Thanks in advance. -- cheers, Jakob.