Designs screen

Panels in the Design screen

Main

This panel contains basic information about the design.

• Name—the name of the design. It does not have to be unique but we strongly recommend that it is, just for clarity.
• Design Type—how the design will be used to publish information.
  See the Designs and Scripting articles for more information.
  
  • Standard—a standard design may have one or more boxes that place test, table or image information.
  • Asset—an asset design allows Page Builders to manipulate an asset as they place it on a page; setting bleed, crop, etc. settings.
  • Galley—a galley design allows you to paginate several objects into one text box. A galley design will place all the elements from one or several objects will place in one text box.
• Default Preview—the Agility object to use when generating an example output for the design.
• Allow in Visualizer—whether the design is available in Visualizer.
• Status—this allows you to indicate whether a design is ready for use in production:
  • Set-up—a design at this status is fully editable.
    Leave a new design at this stage until you’re happy with it and are ready for it to go into live production.
    You can use this design for test pages or samples but you should not use designs at this status in live production.
  • In Production—a design at this status is ready to be used for building pages.
    You can make minor edits to this design but Page Builder users will be unable to delete text boxes from the design.
    If changes like this are necessary, you should move the status of the design back to Set Up. If you do this, you’ll be presented with a dialog warning you that changes you make may affect production.
  • Obsolete—the design is hidden in InDesign Connector and by default in AMI. The design will appear in italics and a different colour on the structure browser in the Governance tool.
    It is effectively deleted in Agility, but can be restored if required by returning it to another status.
• Unique ID—the Agility object ID of the design.
• Path—where the design is linked in a design structure.
• Created—when the design was created and which user created it.
• Last Modified—when the design was last modified and which user modified it.

Design Attributes

This panel shows a list of attributes associated with the design. This allows users to filter attribute definitions when they are building a design.

Channels

This panel shows the content of the design in each publishing channel and a preview thumbnail, if one is available. None of this information on this panel can be edited: it is strictly for diagnostic purposes.

By default the InDesign channel will be displayed.

Menu Items

 Add New Design...

Select this option to clear the details on this screen to the defaults for a new design.

Newly created designs will appear in the currently selected Design Group.

 Disable Design

This option allows you to disable the currently selected design. Disabled designs are by default not displayed in the list of available designs. Their account will still count towards the number of users licensed for your system.

Disabled accounts may be re-enabled later.

 Delete User

Designs can never be deleted as this can prevent document reuse. if you wish to prevent users from working with certain designs then set them to the Obsolete status.

 Re-enable Users...

Select this option to see a list of all disabled users, then select the users you wish to re-enable.

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Comments

Select this option to view and add the comments associated with the design.

If a design has any comments then the most recent will be displayed in place of the design's InDesign channel preview image.

Access Rights

Select this option to set the access rights for the design.

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