I've been trying to get this to work for a while now, I'm new to planetpress and press talk and am having a hard time getting the meta data to work as I'd like it to.

I need to get page numbers onto all my documents so that when the printer jams I know where to start from. (Same goes for a folding machine that destroys the odd page).

I unfortunatly can't get a page number from the xml data the document uses.

So my question is:
What is the simplest/quickest way to insert page numbers and also the total amount of records in the data?

My desired output would be:
54 of 2000

The page number is the priority though, either record number or page number would work for me.

- Hugh

Update:

=inttostr(¤t.datapage)

Gets me my current page, but I still can't find how to get the total amount of pages.

hughbert,

current.datapage will return the current page, but not the total amount of pages.

To return the total amount of pages, the best way is to use the Metadata feature. In your Document structure, right-click on the Metadata folder, and choose "Refresh Metadata". Then make a new data selection, and at the top of the data selector, click on the Metadata tab.

There you'll have a list of metadata tags to choose from. You have one called "PageCount", which is the total number of pages. You also have "DatapageCount", which is the number of data pages. Highlight the tag you want, and click OK, and that should make a data selection of the metadata tag.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Rapha

Ah I see now, here's how it ended up for any other Googlers trying to get page totals:

=GetMeta('SelectedDatapageCount', 1)

Thanks Rapha

I have added meta data to my design and it shows up in the workspace correctly (with the correct data). But, when I do a preview, it does not display. Is there a trick to getting the metadata to display during a preview?

smayers2005,

Make sure you use Optimized PostScript when generating your preview. It will not show up if you preview in Printer Centric.

Regards,
Rapha

That was it. Thanks!

My one is a bit more complicated.

I have a xml database and 1 Page in my layout, this is an invoice run.

Using overflow the 1 page is repeated according to the amount of lines in the data.

How would I go about adding a page counter to that?