I typeset text books that use section numbering in their subheadings. Previously we've worked in Framemaker and are now converting over to InDesign. In Framemaker, we would use autonumbering in the paragraph styles for the subheads. We were able to have the subhead section numbering appear in the upper corners of the page by working with Framemaker's variable settings.
Now that we're using InDesign, we've tried to fix this problem by creating nested styles within the subheads. This doesn't seem to work when we apply the autonumbering in the paragraph styles, and only works when actual text is present.