Document title in footer or header

[jamesw]

I'm interested to hear if anyone else has a need to put a document title into the header or footer of PDFs (and Word docs) built from Flare and if so how are you achieving it?
We are about to do this. Probably we will edit the TITLE tag of the first topic in the document and then add the System.Title variable to the footer of our page layout file.
We could build potentially 20 different tutorials and other documents from the same Flare project, each using some of the same htm files and some different htm files, so that makes some other solutions impractical for us.
Anyway there might be something I've missed so I'd love to hear how others have dealt with this.
Ta

[wclass]

Your plan should work but I use a slightly different method. I create a custom variable for the document title ("ProjectTitle") and use that in the headers/footers rather than "System.Title".

You are right about having to ensure the title of the first topic in the output has then title you want as that is what is used - if I did this then much of my review work would then end up with the document title "Contents".

By setting a custom variable, I can reuse the master pages/page layouts, but I can set a specific output title within the target if necessary without having to worry about the titles and order of my topics.

[jamesw]

Thanks wclass. Your solution is the better one and in fact I realise it will work for me too. For some reason I had got it into my head that you could only set variables in the variable set file but of course you can set them in the target as well.