How to link two text elements to always read the same...

I have an InDesign Doc with a Master Page containing a margin and some graphic imagery that I want displayed on every page.
This works great, so that when I edit the master all other pages are updated.
However, within the master design there is a header that reads the 'Title' of the document, and the 'Version number'
This same information is presented on the front cover page of the document.
What I want to do, is to allow the header to automatically update to whatever is entered in the Front Cover Page text, as this will be the first field completed.
Is this possible?
Many thanks
Max

P Spier wrote:
Thanks, Peter.
The OP didn't indicate anything about a Book, or needing to cross documents, but the extra information is certainly helpful.
I'm not sure I personally trust cross-document cross-refernces all that much, though. There are some reports of them breaking. I might be more inclined, for sake of safety, to repeat the text on page one of each file and use the variable. The text can be in a non-printing frame, if necessary, and that frame need only have some portion inside the bleed area or page boundary if no bleed is specified. The downside to this, of course, is if you edit one, you must edit all, while the cross-reference is a one-shot deal.
My 2-cents addition was added in hopes of saving some frustration for anyone who might want to achieve the result in a book of files.
If x-refs were as robust as they should be, you wouldn't need to mistrust them, of course.
More to the point, err, FrameMaker has global text variables that work across files in a book, so the <$booktitle> text variable, for example, is the same in all component files. You can do this in ID if you post a feature request at AdbeWish.
I'm not sure if placed external text files are more or less reliable than cross-references, but it's worth a try to enable (check) Preferences > File Handling > Links > Create Links When Placing Text and Spreadsheet Files, and place that text file into a master page text frame that applies a desired paragraph style, so that when/if links are updated, the formatting is reapplied.
Global text variables, for those folks who might benefit from them, are certainly worth the time and effort for those folks to file a formal request.
Regards,
Peter Gold

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