Custom tags in page footer

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Hi,

I have a document that uses various meta data, like OrigTitle. When I use these in custom tags like this:

<$Custom:OrigTitle>

… it works perfectly. Except when I use it for a header or footer in the page settings in the compile menu. Here tags like <$Draftname> will work nicely, but custom tags seems not to work.

Any help on this?

Cheers
Erik

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Headers and footers know nothing of individual documents because they are global, so you can’t use document tags in them, only the global tags.
All the best,
Keith

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Oh. Okay. Thanks!

And meta data is always tied to individual docs because it can be changed for each doc?
For that you would use the replacements function in the compile menu?

Cheers