Magazine vol and Issue numbers in footer

[Chills]

Hi All

I am producing a magazine. I have multiple master pages and page numbers set up.

Is there any way of setting up so I can have the Volume and issue numbers across the whole magazine?
I want to only have to enter them once per issue.  Not edit every master page for each issue.
Thanks
Chris

(there is probably a blindingly obvious solution, but I am not using the right search terms to find it 🙂 )

[Old Bruce]

10 minutes ago, Chills said:

(there is probably a blindingly obvious solution, but I am not using the right search terms to find it 🙂 )

Blindingly obvious only after I tell you about it, so not obvious at all.

Use one (or more) of these Fields, put the field in the appropriate Master Page(s).

There is also a Running Header Feature which may work as well but it is more complicated to achieve the same result.

[thomaso]

Place the wanted element on a Master Page + apply that to other Master Pages or directly to all document pages.

[Chills]

13 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Blindingly obvious only after I tell you about it, so not obvious at all.

So often the case 🙂   Thanks, I will look into it.  The problem is that I have a dozen or so master pages.
I need to have a rationalization....

[thomaso]

3 minutes ago, Chills said:

The problem is that I have a dozen or so master pages.
I need to have a rationalization....

How about master pages based on other master pages? Does this "I have multiple (…) page numbers set up" mean they were created on / copied to several master pages?  Unless you want changing styles or positions across the document just two would be sufficient.

[Chills]

1 minute ago, thomaso said:

How about master pages based on other master pages? Does this "I have multiple (…) page numbers set up" mean they were created on / copied to several master pages?  Unless you want changing styles or positions across the document just two would be sufficient.

Thanks for that.
I think I am going to have a bit of a rationalization and re-read the manual on master pages.
I think I have solved it using the suggestion from,   but@Old Bruce a rationalization of the masters is still a good idea.

[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, Chills said:

Thanks for that.
I think I am going to have a bit of a rationalization and re-read the manual on master pages.
I think I have solved it using the suggestion from,   but@Old Bruce a rationalization of the masters is still a good idea.

I create one master page for the basic stuff like footers and headers and then create other master pages with the layout stuff like text frames. Then I apply the basic one to the layout ones.

You might want to consider using custom fields (aka user variables). You could create one for your volume and issue numbers, insert those into the header or footer, and then just change the custom field for each issue.

Cheers

[Chills]

18 hours ago, MikeTO said:

I create one master page for the basic stuff like footers and headers and then create other master pages with the layout stuff like text frames. Then I apply the basic one to the layout ones.

You might want to consider using custom fields (aka user variables). You could create one for your volume and issue numbers, insert those into the header or footer, and then just change the custom field for each issue.

Cheers

Gone with that, All the masters now come off one base-master with the header and footer info in it So now I am only having to edit one page.