And BookVars from Leximation (see http://leximation.com/tools/info/bookvars.php) is an excellent tool for the job - I maintain all my variables at the book level for consistent use.
As I have also mentioned before, it is the single most used add-on to FrameMaker that I have. Highly recommended. Z From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 8:08 AM To: Lin Sims Cc: Frame Users Subject: Re: mass update of system variable And I believe if you create a book which contains each of the needed books, you can complete the task with one import. -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11<http://framemaker11book.com/> P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | matt at mattrsullivan.com<mailto:matt at mattrsullivan.com> [cid:image001.png at 01CE3CD7.758EA180]<http://twitter.com/mattrsullivan>@mattrsullivan<http://twitter.com/mattrsullivan> [cid:image002.png at 01CE3CD7.758EA180] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattrsullivan> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattrsullivan> [cid:image003.png at 01CE3CD7.758EA180] <http://www.facebook.com/mattrsullivan> facebook<http://www.facebook.com/mattrsullivan> [cid:image004.png at 01CE3CD7.758EA180] <http://mattrsullivan.com/> mattrsullivan.com<http://mattrsullivan.com/> On Apr 19, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com<mailto:ljsims.ml at gmail.com>> wrote: Yes, Edwin will have to open each book to do this, but it's still faster than editing one file in each book and importing from there. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130419/9a94af44/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 1331 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130419/9a94af44/attachment.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 1380 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130419/9a94af44/attachment-0001.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 1576 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130419/9a94af44/attachment-0002.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.png Type: image/png Size: 1222 bytes Desc: image004.png URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130419/9a94af44/attachment-0003.png>