Single Sourcing for Page Layouts
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:38 am
My project is set up to export separate PDFs for each topic in my target. I've had a request to include the title of each topic in the header rather than on the topic, so that it repeats at the top of each page. (This is completely manageable in this particular project since it's an unusual situation - I'm trying to use Flare to manage the schedule for a conference, so I'll have only 8 topics total for this target.)
My question is, what is the best way to single source this so that I don't need to create a separate page layout for each of those 8 topics to include the correct title for each topic? If I'm understanding things correctly, variables will not work since the variable needs to be the same for all topics within the target. I tried setting up conditions and snippet conditions (each of those topics is already set up to include/exclude content based on snippets to show the correct schedule information), but it doesn't seem to be applying to the page layout content, only to the content within the topic itself. So, instead of updating as intended, to display only "Track 1" on the topic that is set to display only Track 1 content, it displays "Track 1 Track 2 Track 3," and so on - no conditions are being used.
It looks like a similar question was asked a few years ago (viewtopic.php?f=75&t=16944&hilit=conditions+page+layout), and the consensus was that for master pages you SHOULD be able to use conditions, but it wasn't working. Anyone know if this has been fixed, if this is different for master pages vs. page layouts, or if there is a workaround besides building 8 different master pages to include the correct title on each one?
Thank you for any ideas!!
My question is, what is the best way to single source this so that I don't need to create a separate page layout for each of those 8 topics to include the correct title for each topic? If I'm understanding things correctly, variables will not work since the variable needs to be the same for all topics within the target. I tried setting up conditions and snippet conditions (each of those topics is already set up to include/exclude content based on snippets to show the correct schedule information), but it doesn't seem to be applying to the page layout content, only to the content within the topic itself. So, instead of updating as intended, to display only "Track 1" on the topic that is set to display only Track 1 content, it displays "Track 1 Track 2 Track 3," and so on - no conditions are being used.
It looks like a similar question was asked a few years ago (viewtopic.php?f=75&t=16944&hilit=conditions+page+layout), and the consensus was that for master pages you SHOULD be able to use conditions, but it wasn't working. Anyone know if this has been fixed, if this is different for master pages vs. page layouts, or if there is a workaround besides building 8 different master pages to include the correct title on each one?
Thank you for any ideas!!