I have a collection of poetry, each poem a separate document with document name including extra information beyond the poem’s name e.g. “PoemName 2022-08”.
These documents have only the body of the poem in them, they do not have the title as text at the top.
I have put the desired Poem Title in the inspector’s metadata “Title” field.
Now I’m compiling and having trouble. I do not wish to use the document’s name. I want to use the metadata Title for each poem. I have learned that I can include ALL metadata, but I haven’t found a way to include just the metadata field I want: Title.
Is it possible to compile including a single Metadata field? If so, would you point me to where that’s spelled out.
PS. My work around will be changing all the document titles, but I hope I don’t have to do that.
All you have to do is to insert <$custom:YourMetadataFieldName> in the editor, where you want the metadata field’s content to appear after compile.
You can also do it in bulk, for all your draft folder’s documents (or only for some, using section types and different section layouts), through your compile format.
In the prefix tab of the Section Layouts panel, for e.g.
→ Of course, you’ll want to uncheck “metadata” from the top part of the compile format’s panel, for the section layouts for which you’ll insert the placeholder.
Else, you’ll end up with all your metadata, then this specific one repeated.
There is a list of all possible placeholders under the Help menu.
Thank you. That’s exactly what I needed. I felt it likely to be present, but I didn’t see it in the placeholder list.
Might I suggest putting the “extra information” in a Custom Metadata field and using the “poem’s name” as the plain Title in the standard way?
That is certainly one approach, but most of my older work, and still some current, is in Word files. It’s helpful to have the Word filename visible, though I realize I could create a custom field for it.
This seems like a case of my liking chocolate, you like vanilla.
