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Hi
I'm using a master page followed by about 30 other pages. Does anyone know a method of incrementing and displaying page numbers please?

Thanks

Aiden --

On your Master Page, create a Text Object, then right click on the object and select Insert a Variable. You'll need to create a new variable, let's call it "Number" which you should make a number instead of text.

Now create a Forward Button Object and a Previous Button Object. For the Actions on the Forward Button start with Programming - Variable - Add. The default is add "1" which is what we want. Go to the lower selection window and for the Variable use the drop-down selector and pick "Number." The next Action is Go To Page - Forward.

For the Previous Button, select Subtract, and again select the Number variable we created first; then add the Go to Page Back (not "Previous").

If your presentation only goes forward and backward -- you're done. If you have a selection menu, then you will need to do a Variable Set before your Go To Page xx.

Hope that helps.

I see Fred beat me to the reply and as always, came up with a good solution. However I prepared this reply offline and it is an alternative so will paste the reply here....


Hi Aidan,

Do you have Opus Pro? If so, you can use the script GetPageNumber() on each page associated to the Master Page.

Have an On-Show action on the page plus a text box with an inserted variable e.g. <PageName>

The code for the script action would then be:
PageName = GetPageNumber()

// this will result in an incremental page number.

my problem is (using GetPageNumber()) that the number increases by 1 even if your publication is split into chapters.

i want to ger the PageNumber into a chapter and not into a whole publication.

Do you have a solution about this?

It is easy to do, but it would help to know more about how you are approaching this, ...and how you intend to use the information.

something like the following expression may achieve it, but there are better or more simple ways -- if I knew how and where you were triggering the script. I will ASSUME you will run the script using a Page OnShow().



CAVEAT: Now my understanding is that this should NOT work!! Help/Review needed from others.
Help files say that when Opus provides a result using GetChild(somenumber), the first child [i.e. child zero] is supposed to be the bottom one in the Organizer view. This is true for objects lower than page level.

But it does not seem to be true for 'children' of a Chapter object. Can anybody confirm why this occurs?


Anyway tempo,
You should be able to paste the above code in a Script Object and it will run. I will leave it to you to use the data shown in Debug.trace pane and apply it to your own variables or other expressions.

tempo,

I should add that the script needs to be placed on every page that you want to 'self-report' the page number (within Chapter).
An easy way to achieve this is to create an Opus Master Page. Place that script only on the Master Page, and then have every regular Page use that Master Page. The script gets pulled in and used properly.

Tip: in case you did not know, any Page can have multiple Master Pages (accomplished by cascading one MP onto another).