Creating a Preview Campaign
Before users can set up a Composite Product in the Storefront (see Setting Up Composite Documents), they must have a Preview Campaign to enable a realistic preview of the document. The Campaign can include visualization of certain properties that can be displayed (for example, different binder selections)
The recipients (records) in the Campaign Data Source represent a spread of two pages, in a left and right form.
Assume the recipient list is in the following format:
|
Column Name |
Description |
|---|---|
|
Left_Page |
Path to thumbnail of the page on the left. This may be empty, if no pages are printed on the left or if it is a cover. |
|
Right_Page |
Path to thumbnail of the page on the right. This may be empty, if no pages are printed on the right or if this is the back cover. |
|
Left_Orientation |
Represents the orientation of the Left page. Can be either “Portrait” or “Landscape” |
|
Right_Orientation |
Represents the orientation of the Right page. Can be either “Portrait” or “Landscape” |
|
Left_[Property Name] |
The selected value of the property relevant for the Left / Right page. For example, a user selected gloss lamination for the Left Page. The column name is Left_Lamination (or Right_Lamination) and the value is Gloss. This will appear for each property. The column name is case sensitive to the property name as defined in uStore. It is recommended to use only the properties you demonstrate in the preview. |
|
[Property Name] |
The selected value of a property of the Composite document. Eg. Binding Type |
To create a preview campaign.
1. Create a new InDesign Document, in a proportion that will represent the finished product (spread + binding).
2. Link the document to the above data source, with at least one sample line. (For reference, you may use the schema described above to create your own data source).
3. Create 3 graphic items on the InDesign Document: left page, right page (each using the size of a single page) and a binder in the middle. (The size of the binder image should be defined to hover over the left and the right page to represent the actual binding).
4. Attach the left image with the Left_Page ADOR, the right image with the Right_Page ADOR, and the middle image with the Binding Type ADOR.
5. Create Content Objects using Rules to enable page orientation changes in the preview, and more Rules if necessary.
6. Export the campaign as CPKG and upload it to uProduce.