Updating Manual Date/Time Variables

When you first add a manual date/time variable to your project, it displays the date and time the variable was initially created. However, you can update these variables at any time so they display the current date and time. You can update each manual variable individually, or you can update all of the manual variables in the project at once.

How to Update Manual Date/Time Variables

  1. Open the content file.

  2. Right-click the manual date/time variable.
  3. From the context menu, do one of the following, depending on if you want to update only the selected variable or all of the manual date/time variables in the project:
    • Selected Date/Time Variable Select Update DateTime Value. The manual date/time variable updates to the current date and time.
    • All Date/Time Variables Select Update All DateTime Values. All manual date/time variables in the project update to the current date and time.

  4. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

Note Like standard variables, you can override custom date/time variables in a target. See Overriding Variable Definitions in Targets.

Note If you want to change how variables look when they display in the XML Editor and in generated output files, you can edit the MadCap|variable style in the Stylesheet Editor. See Styled Variables.