Using TOC name as a variable?

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chris were
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Using TOC name as a variable?

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I would like to reference the table of contents I am publishing from. In fact I'd like to nest it, so that I set my <%TITLE%> to <%TOC_NAME%>, if there was such a thing.

My use case: I have after importing from another help system a tonne of topics in one project for multiple manuals, and I create additional TOCs for each manual. I know I can create separate project for each and assign a master/slave relation, setting the title in each master, but its a little convoluted and I had problems publishing this way, files too big (see my H&M7 post Re: CHM file size enourmously increased I have just updated).

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Re: Using TOC name as a variable?

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Hi Chris,

There isn't a variable that will give you the name of your current TOC. There is a trick you could use that would only work if you have topics in each TOC that only exist in that TOC. Then you store your TOC_NAME variable globally, and redefine it locally in the topic unique to each TOC, with the local variables option in the Topic Options for that topic. The downside is that it would only be valid in that topic, so it would have to be some kind of intro topic.
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