Importing variables from one document to another

Understand how to import variables from one document to another in Adobe FrameMaker.

Introduction

The variables in a document are available for use in the document where they are created (user variables) or edited (user and system variables).

You can make these changes available to other documents by importing the variable definitions.

Import variable from one document to another

To import variables from one document to another, do the following:

Open the document containing the variable definitions that you need to make available in one or more other documents.
Open the document into which to import the variable definitions from the source document.

If you are working in a FrameMaker book, you can select all documents in the book into which you want to import the definitions.
Choose File > Import > Formats. The Import Formats dialog is displayed.
In the Import Formats dialog, click Deselect All, check Variable Definitions, and click Import.

Important: If the destination documents contain user variables with the same names as the source document, the user variable definitions are overwritten. Also, if the definitions of system variables in the source document are updated, the definitions of the corresponding variables in the destination documents are overwritten.