Hi Lin, Thanks very much for this help.
I created a MIF file with the system variable definitions I required and then imported that into different FM books. It worked a dream, as it didn't change the user variables defined in the document (which was my concern). thanks again, Edwin From: Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> To: "Reng, Dr. Winfried" <wreng at tycoint.com>, Cc: "ETudsbery at cpaglobal.com" <ETudsbery at cpaglobal.com>, Frame Users <framers at lists.frameusers.com> Date: 19/04/2013 15:17 Subject: Re: mass update of system variable If it helps any, I learned to do this from Shlomo. :) 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. I don't think there's a plugin available that will do any better than that. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried <wreng at tycoint.com> wrote: Hi Lin, I was sure. If you open a MIF snippet to be able to import formats from it, all variables which are not defined in the MIF snippet are populatead with the default values. That?s why I never used it to import formats from it. However, if you do import formats, it seems that these default values are _not_ imported although they are there. Strange. If you import the MIF snippet as a file, then you can import it only into a single file. Of course you can then import variables into all other files of the book. However, this is not what the poster wanted. I would make a book with all the files (from all the folders and subfolders) and use one of the plugin to import a single variable. Best regards Winfried From: Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 2:56 PM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried Cc: ETudsbery at cpaglobal.com; Frame Users Subject: Re: mass update of system variable Really? I've used a MIF snippet in the last month to update all the variables in a book file, and that was in Frame10. (ETudsbury, I forgot to say that you have to reopen the MIF file in FrameMaker, but I figured you'd know that since the file you're importing from has to be open.) On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried <wreng at tycoint.com> wrote: Hi, MIF snippets do not work. You can import the MIF snippet only via import by copy into a single file. If you would then import the variables from this file into other files (via import formats), you would import all variables. I would recommend to check the variable plugins from Leximation and Silicon Prairie Software: http://leximation.com/tools/ http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/ I do not know these plugins. However, I am sure they would help you. Best regards Winfried From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lin Sims Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 2:36 PM To: ETudsbery at cpaglobal.com Cc: Frame Users Subject: Re: mass update of system variable MIF snippet. 1. Open a blank document and edit the variables you want to update. 2. Save as a MIF file. 3. Open the MIF file in a TEXT editor. 4. Delete everything but the code for the variables you want to update. 5. Save and close the file. 6. Open the files you want to update and import variables from the MIF snippet. Let me know if you have questions. :) Lin On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:25 AM, <ETudsbery at cpaglobal.com> wrote: Hello, I'd like to update the definition for the system variable "Running H/F1" for hundreds of FrameMaker 7.2 files. I don't want to update other user variables, so I can't use the Import > Formats > Variable definitions method. 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