Different template for start of flow, _not_ first?

Dorico
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I think this is a feature request, but if it’s possible to do now, I’m happy to be wrong!

I have a work that has a number of short flows (1-4 pages each), and I would like to have the flow title in the header of the page, but not at the start of a flow. Currently, I have {@projectTitle@} - {@flowTitle@}, but at the start of a new flow, the default template doesn’t render the flow title and keeps the -, which is kind of ugly.

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What I want to happen is to show the project title only, with no -, and I would like to avoid creating a manual template change each time this occurs. Additionally, creating this template to begin with is pretty annoying, due to the way Dorico links text frames in duplicated templates (which as far as I can tell still can’t be unlinked, which continues to bite me on a regular basis).

I do not want to use the First template for this, as I do not want these to look like the first page of the score.

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I think this is indeed a feature request.
Meanwhile, though, the least work would be to set up the First template to work for all flows bar the first one, and then either introduce a single override on the very first page or use a different template for the very first page.

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I think the following should also work:

  1. Change your flow title to – Being, and remove the dash and space from your page header so you just have {@projectTitle@}{@flowTitle@}
  2. Set the flow subtitle to just Being, and change the token in your Flow Headings template to use {@flowSubtitle@} instead of {@flowTitle@}
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This is the workaround I was planning to use and was bitten by the secretly-linked text frame thing.

I also like @asherber’s suggestion, though it may mess up some other metadata in a way I’m not anticipating.