System

Probably the most obvious use of a variable is to display some text that may change when a book or topic is published, such as the date published, or which user published the book. The System type variables are ideal for this.

Wednesday, 17 September 2008 This date is created by the Sys_LDate variable, which displays the date this book was published according to the computer long date format of the computer doing the publishing.

Gretchen Wilcox This is the name of the Author-it user logged in who actually did the publishing, and is set by the Sys_User variable.

It should be noted that system variables are set once at the beginning of a publishing session so that all documents published in a session can have the same values when using these variables.

The following system variables are available:

<SYS_USER>

<SYS_TIME>

<SYS_SDATE>

<SYS_LDATE>

<SYS_OBJECTID>

<SYS_VERSION>

<SYS_BASEDON>

<SYS_BASEDONKEY>

<SYS_BASEDONTEXT>

<SYS_DESCRIPTION>

<SYS_CREATED>

<SYS_CREATEDBY>

<SYS_MODIFIED>

<SYS_MODIFIEDBY>

<SYS_STATEID>

<SYS_STATUS>

<SYS_PUBLISH_FOLDER>

user who published document

time publishing started

short date publishing started

long date publishing started

object code

object version

object template id

object template code

object template description

object description

object creation date/time

object created by

object last modified date/time

object last modified by

object release state id

object status id

publishing output folder of the current book

System

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