Need versatility (robotization) to apply sections

Question

It is possible to have the option of inserting a section marker (or whatever it may be called) in the page where a new section appears, in order to accomplish the restarting of numbering for footnotes?
I mean: inserting something in each heading of each opening chapter text, for example, that could float («travel») adhered to the page?
Thus, if  the length of the chapters changes during the process it will not be necessary to untag-tag again the new sections?
This is a real calamity. Sometimes I  have to write a list with the new section numbers, reviewing all the pages, and manually apply the marker through the pages palette...
With this, the marking of sections and by extension, the restart of footnotes (default= by sections) could be accomplished mechanically?

Answer 1

Yes, perhaps I wouldn't quite use so strong a word as calamity, but it's a right pain in the backside, that's for sure. I remember now that I wrote a script to deal with this. Run the script, and all sections in the document will be removed. You choose a paragraph style from a dropdown list, and a new section will be applied wherever that paragraph appears in the document. If you use the script and it's useful for you, please consider a donation. This script is for CS4.
Nevertheless, despite writing the script, I still prefer dividing the document into separate stories (usually one story per chapter). (I told you I've tried all the workarounds!)
Here's the script:
//BS"D SectionStuff, An IDCS4 Script (c) Ariel Walden, Israel, 2010
//Instructions: Run. Select the Doc para style from the dropdown. Click OK
//Now all old section markers will be deleted from the document, and instead
//every time the selected paragraph style appears, it will mark the beginning of a new section!
mydoc = app.activeDocument;
mylist = mydoc.paragraphStyles;
chosenStyle = MakeDropDown (mylist);
//remove old sections
aa = mydoc.sections.length;
for (bb=aa; bb>1; bb--){
     mydoc.sections[bb-1].remove()
//find all instances of chosenStyle
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = chosenStyle;
myFinds = mydoc.findText();
aa=myFinds.length;
for (bb=aa;bb>0;bb--){
     myPage = myFinds[bb-1].parentTextFrames[0].parent;
     try {mydoc.sections.add(myPage, {pageNumberStyle:PageNumberStyle.ARABIC, continueNumbering:true, })} catch(e){};
function MakeDropDown(mylist){
mydialog = app.dialogs.add({name:mylist.constructor.name});
myswatches = mylist.everyItem().getElements();
var mystring = new Array;
for (aa = 0; aa < myswatches.length; aa ++){
     mystring.push(myswatches[aa].name);
with (mydialog.dialogColumns.add()){
     staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Please choose:"});
with (mydialog.dialogColumns.add()){
     mymenu = dropdowns.add
     ({stringList:mystring, selectedIndex:0});
mydialog.show();
myresult = mystring[mymenu.selectedIndex];
mydialog.destroy();
return(myresult);