tag limit workaround

[Emily Helton]

I'm attempting to create a series of reports from a survey. This is a survey we run and report on twice a year. The report would exceed 200 tags as written, which I gather is testing the limits of Autocrat. There's a logical divide, but I'm not sure of the best way to automate it. 

With our survey data, we report it in aggregate and for individual cases. So each report has some data from the entire survey, and some for each individual. Very nice, so they can compare how their case compared to the entire dataset. What I'm thinking is, I'll create a template that has the aggregate data in it (Autocrat job 1), then feed that result in as the template for the individual reports (Autocrat job 2). 

My question is, is there an easy way to avoid having to enter the tags for Autocrat job 2 by hand after Autocrat job 1 has run? Can I get Autocrat job 1 to ignore the tags somehow (escape character maybe), and then easily use something like find/replace to make them active tags for Autocrat job 2? 

As I'm typing this, I'm wondering if I could just put a $ or other character that isn't used in the report between the two angle brackets on Job 2 tags, then remove them before running the second job. So, it would look like <<total-percent>>, <$<your-survey-percent>>. 

Anyone have a more elegant solution? I appreciate you thinking this through with me!