Copyright declaration?

[Bedhead]

Hi Experts --

I miss this feature from my days of using the Big Competitor to Flare and am wondering if anyone knows how to create a copyright statement (just a small one-liner) that will appear on the bottom of every topic in the Web output. I've got a work-around, which is to insert a snippet in every topic, but it would be nice to prepopulate each topic with the copyright I can't quite remember the sequence in RoboHelp (it's been a while) but I know it was something as simple as adding an option at the project level.

I'm thinking this feature must be available in Flare, I just haven't managed to find it yet! Anyone able to help?

Thanks in advance!!

[nickatwork]

Put that copyright snippet in your masterpage. That'll ensure its on every page. I do something simlar for webhelp, and include the help version number too, its in a footer bar that sits at the bottom of every topic, regardless of the topic length.

[Bedhead]

Thank you, NickatWork!! You're the hero of the day!

[LTinker68]

And if you use multiple masterpages, then you could possibly put the copyright in a variable and put the variable in each masterpage, so you only have to change the content in one location every year -- the variable. Alternatively, if you want a more stylized content or multiple lines of text in the copyright, then you could keep that snippet you created and put the snippet in the masterpages.

[Bedhead]

Actually, the masterpage looks great, but when I attempt to make it the default master page at the project level, it isn't showing up in the dropdown. It appears in the MasterPages folder in the Content Explorer, but not in the dropdown. Any idea what I could be doing wrong? I'd love to put all this good advice I'm getting into practice!

[wclass]

Actually, the masterpage looks great, but when I attempt to make it the default master page at the project level, it isn't showing up in the dropdown. ...

I think you've come up against the terminology problem - there are "master pages" used mainly for web output, and "page layouts" used mainly for print.
But then you can have a main page layout, in other words, a "master" page layout.
At the "project" level on web output, you can set up a master (or main) page layout as the default, so what you are seeing in the dropdown is probably a list of what is in the Page Layouts folder in content explorer\resources.

I generally set a main master page at the target level, on the Advanced tab.