Hello Carrie,
First of all, is the a web-to-print question, or FusionPro Desktop? I am
assuming web-to-print because of your statement of "client choose color from
a drop down list...."
Is this a 1-color piece that has 8 different color options? If the only
difference are the colors, I see two ways to address this. One would be to
use the body page usage feature, another would be to make the area which
contains your image a graphic frame and UI Rule's.
With the managing 8 pages scenario using body pages and your drop-down field
is called "Color":
You have to initially set all 8 of your body pages to unused initially
(FusionPro:Manage Pages:Page Usage), while you are in the Page Usage menu,
name each page with the same value the client will choose from the drop-down
list. This will allow you to activate the appropriate page using a rule such
as:
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(Field("Color"),true);
Then, when a user chooses a color from the drop-down field "Color", that
page with the matching color is turned on and composed.
With the graphic frame scenerio and your drop-down field is called "Color":
You have a separate file for each different color of your graphic. You
upload these all into a common library in the manager for your template.
Then you use "user interface" rules to return the appropriate library image
for that graphic frame.
This method will use two fields to accomplish what you are after. You would
still have your drop-down field "Color", but you need a second field to
accommodate your image. Will call it "Image".
Your "user interface" rule would be something like this:
if [Color] = [PMS281] then [Image] = [PMS281.eps]
Or something along those lines.
Hope this helps,
Craig D.
P.S.
BTW, if you are using FusionPro Desktop, the "Page Usage" method above will
still work, but with respect to the "Graphic Frame" scenerio, you would
instead load your images as graphic resources (FusionPro:Data
Deffinition:Input Options) and then use an If/Else/Return rule to swap in
the appropriate image. Then the color information would be coming from a
database.
Here would be that graphic rule. Lets call it "Graphic":
if (field("Color") == "")
return "";
else
return (field("Color") + '.eps';
Then with the graphic frame selected, you would choose the "Graphic" rule
that we just created from the "Field or Rule" from the properties pallet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carrie Dodt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 7:40 AM
To: FusionPro Users Forum
Subject: [fusionpro] Template question
I have 8 pages - the only difference is 8 different PMS colors. One page
will be produced. All fields are the same. I will have client choose color
from a drop down list, which will call out the correct color for the preview
& the document.
Do I need to configure each page separately - & then join them in the PDF?
It seems the fields do not hold after the first page, when I create the PDF
from Indesign.
Thanks,
Carrie
K&M Printing
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