Planning a page book naming conventions

Naming convention for page book articles should be carefully planned, to provide name uniqueness and easier identification.

Typically, page book articles have a name that consists of a recognizable fixed root, a name delimiter, and a suffix. A root name with delimiter may be something as:

B01p01_

where B01 may stand for the Book 01, and p01 for the page #1 in that book. The underscore is the (default) name delimiter before the suffix, and the suffix name can be:

a01

a02

or:

lead

briefs

main story

etc.

Thus, page book article names may be:

B01p01_a01

B01p01_a02

B01p01_lead

etc.

Such naming convention provides uniqueness for up to 99 page books and in each page book, for up to 99 pages, for a total of 9801 pages. Typically, that's more than sufficient.

About name delimiter

Name delimiter is very important, as Fred4 CopyPage procedure looks for that delimiter, to identify the actual article names used on the page of the page book.

You can override the default underscore by adding the glbBNameDelimiter value as explained in Configuring page book variables.

You may choose a number of variables to define the name of the final articles, created by copying a page from a page book.

Typically, you may want to replace the page book article root with a new name, based on the date when it is to be published and page, optionally also a section.

For example, a page book article B01p01_a01 becomes 1903_News_p07_a01_88234 when copied onto a final edition, where 19 is day, 03 is month, News is the section, p07 is the page, a01 is the article original name, and 88234 is a random number that ensures uniqueness even if two or more users use the same page from the page book on the same folder and in the very same moment.

The final articles naming is configurable. See Configuring page book variables for further details.