Adding Chapter Numbers to Image Captions in individual writer documents when using Master Documents

[AndreasAndrikos]

I have a master Document and the individual Writer documents where i write each chapter.
I want to every chapter (different writer document) each figure i add in a chapter to be displayed as “Figure 2.1: blabla”,“figure 2.2: blublu” (example for Document which contains Chapter 2).
In other words i want each Writer document to be written and captioned independently but the caption in different chapters/Documents to have predefined chapter numbering.
I have inserted every chapter i wrote so far in the master document and all Writer files including the master document are made from the same template.

Is what i want currently possible? Because despite reading Writer guide i failed to spot the right configuration.

[ajlittoz]

The chapter number can be automatically provided by customised settings of the caption when it is created.

• Once you have inserted your figure (or after you have selected it), open the caption dialog Insert → Caption....

• Fill-in the required data, i.e. caption, category, numbering style, …

• Click on the Options button.

• Select the “depth” of numbering (1 for chapter number only, 2 for chapter and section, etc.) and eventually the character style if you want the reference in a different appearance from the rest of the caption

• Click OK for both dialogs

Remember that the chapter number is inserted only if your chapters have an effective numbering.

Using a master document and (included) sub-documents does not change the procedure.

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[anon87010807]

Add that in Tools - Outline numbering, numbering levels must be linked to heading styles and numbering must be enabled or it won’t work.

[AndreasAndrikos]

“Remember that the chapter number is inserted only if your chapters have an effective numbering.”
that is the reason i could not make it happen, i did not know the importance of numbering chapters and also how to do that.

floris v comment saved me!!!

thank you both…