Title management
Title management automatically sets the main and sub-titles on three kinds of slide in your agenda — table-of-contents, divider and content slides. The titles are built from templates with placeholders (tokens) that PPPTools fills with the real values of your agenda items whenever it generates or refreshes the slides. Every slide then carries consistent, always-up-to-date titles without you typing them by hand.
You find the settings on the Configuration tab in the "Title management" group. It complements the other agenda tools — see Agenda – overview, Capturing agenda items, Format templates and Divider slides.
Pro feature
Title management is part of the Agenda Master and is available from the Pro licence tier upwards.
How it works
For each of the three kinds of slide you provide a main-title and a sub-title template. A template is plain text into which you drop tokens — placeholders in double square brackets such as [[THEMA]] or [[NR]]. When the slides are generated, PPPTools replaces each token with the matching value.
An empty field leaves that title untouched — PPPTools writes nothing and clears nothing. This lets you manage only certain titles and keep others by hand.
Turning title management on or off
The checkbox "Title management active" (default OFF) is the master switch. When it is off, no titles are set or refreshed — anything existing stays fully untouched, and nothing is cleaned up.
Exception: the ToC main title
The table-of-contents main title is always set — even with the master switch off. If you leave the "ToC main title" field empty, PPPTools falls back to the default "Agenda". That way the table of contents never carries an empty title.
The six title templates
Each kind of slide has one field for the main title and one for the sub-title:
| Field | Default |
|---|---|
| ToC main title | Agenda |
| ToC sub-title | (empty) |
| Divider main title | [[THEMA]] |
| Divider sub-title | (empty) |
| Content main title | [[NR]] [[THEMA]] |
| Content sub-title | (empty) |
ToC titles have no item context
The table of contents belongs to the whole agenda, not to a single item. The two ToC titles therefore understand only metadata tokens such as [[TITLE]] or [[DATE]]. Item tokens like [[NR]] or [[THEMA]] stay empty there.
The token picker
Below the fields sits the token picker — clickable chips, sorted into groups. A click inserts the token into the last focused title field, so place the cursor where you want it, then click the chip.
Presentation metadata (the deck's header data, from the Agenda tab):
| Token | Meaning |
|---|---|
[[TITLE]] |
Presentation title |
[[DATE]] |
Date |
[[PRESENTER]] |
Presenter |
[[PROJECT]] |
Project |
[[STARTTIME]] |
Start time |
[[CLASSIFICATION]] |
Classification |
[[STATUS]] |
Status |
[[AUDIENCE]] |
Audience |
Current item (the slide being labelled):
| Token | Meaning |
|---|---|
[[NR]] |
Item number (e.g. 2.1) |
[[THEMA]] |
Topic / title |
[[VERANTWORTLICH]] |
Responsible |
[[DAUER]] |
Duration in minutes |
[[ZEIT]] |
Time slot |
[[EIGENE]] |
Extra column |
Parent (inheritance) — refers to the item directly above the current one:
| Token | Meaning |
|---|---|
[[PARENT_NR]] |
Number of the directly parent item |
[[PARENT_THEMA]] |
Topic of the parent item |
Main item (top level) — refers to the top-level item the current item sits under:
| Token | Meaning |
|---|---|
[[MAIN_NR]] |
Number of the main item |
[[MAIN_THEMA]] |
Topic of the main item |
Protecting manual changes
The checkbox "Do not overwrite manually changed titles" (default ON) decides who wins on a conflict:
- On — titles you changed by hand are kept; the template does not overwrite them. Ideal when you deliberately polish individual slides.
- Off — the templates lead and refresh the titles on every pass. Ideal when the templates should be the single source of truth.
If you rename an agenda item, the managed titles follow automatically on the next refresh — the number and topic then match everywhere again.
Title targets on the layout
Which placeholder in the slide master the main or sub-title is written to can be set explicitly per layout — in the Agenda template designer, Design tab, Title targets section. This is especially useful for corporate masters that ship without a native sub-title placeholder. The details live there.
An example
Suppose you set:
- Divider main title =
[[NR]] [[THEMA]] - Content sub-title =
[[MAIN_THEMA]]
Your agenda has the main item 2 Market analysis with the sub-item 2.1 Competitors. Then you get:
- On the divider slide for item 2.1: main title "2.1 Competitors".
- On the content slide for item 2.1: sub-title "Market analysis" — because
[[MAIN_THEMA]]yields the topic of the main item the sub-item sits under.
That way the audience sees on every sub-item slide which parent topic it belongs to.