Title in summary different

Question

I'm using X5 to create PDF documents.
My help title is defined in the Single Source Layouts |
Printed Documentation properties and in the Project properties.
That topic is displayed in the title bar of the Adobe PDF,
which is as you'd expect, however:
The Document Properties of the PDF shows a different title.
When I looked back at the generated MS Word file, those
document properties are the same as the document properties in the
PDF.
I've run a text find operation for the wrong title in the
help project directory and I don't find any matches.
I'm using a cover page generated from a MSWord document, so I
checked there to see whether it was getting information from there
and set the document name in that document to the correct name,
saved and regenerated, but I'm still seeing the wrong title.
Any ideas where it could be getting this information
from?

Answer 1

Hi
That's right. The names of parameters and page items in your title or text area are not dynamic as they are in other parts of the tool. Therefore, whatever Discoverer sees after the ampersand character will first of all be looked for in parameters and page items. If there is a parameter or page item by that name then the current value for that item will be displayed in the title or page item. If there is nothing named that way then Discoverer treats the characters following the ampersand as a literal and will display them.
Thus, as mentioned by Russ, if you had a parameter called parameter_name and used &parameter_name in your title the current contents of that parameter will be displayed at runtime. But if you or one of your team has renamed that parameter then Discoverer will simply display the literal value: &parameter_name.
Best wishes
Michael