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The Basic Structure of MultiPart Configuration XML

This tutorial walks you through configuring multiple components of a project so they can be combined into a single output. You’ll learn how to break your project into separate parts—like different sections of a brochure—and then arrange them in the correct sequence so the final file has each component in the proper place. By the end, you’ll understand how to designate which pieces go where, helping you transform various pieces of content into one cohesive document.

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going back to our multi-part config page
now is where we're going to start
looking at this particular configuration
section here which is probably the bulk
of what we need to talk about today
Uh
so as I mentioned this is where a lot of
the configuration of the MultiPart is and
it's probably what puts quite a few
people off in terms of specifying the
details of it Uh but once you get your
head around the structure of it it's
actually quite straightforward And I've
got a little tool I want to show you in
a moment uh which we've created on a
separate page which will assist you with
doing this But just to explain the
structure of this so you understand what
this is doing is allowing you to specify
different part well primarily allowing
you to specify different parts in your
upload screen So remember where we had
three different upload areas for
different parts of our sample brochure
You would specify these as different
parts within
here Those parts each have their own
specification in which is some of it's
completed within the part configuration
and then some of it is also completed
within the input
items So this allows you to specify
certain information related to the parts
that you have specified
So to clarify what I mean by parts you
let's say with our brochure example we
might have a part which
is our front cover That's one part We
have a second part which is our internal
content And we have a third part which
is our back
cover When we're actually specifying the
part configuration let me see if I can
reposition my screen a little bit better
here Give it some context
So when we're specifying the part
section of our config that is where we
get one of these sections here an area
to
upload Our input items that is allowing
us to specify information like uh how
many pages are we allowing them to
upload uh is there names and
descriptions we want to associate with
that uh that kind of
information but they are tied in with
the parts that we've created And then
the third main section in here is the
order So this is basically just
specifying the order in which the parts
you've specified are going to be
utilized So basically it will control
how they appear in here for
one but it will also allow us to confirm
how they're going to be combined
together into one PDF So if you've got
front cover content and back cover you
want to make sure that they're combined
in the correct order Otherwise it's
going to be a completely useless output
PDF So that's what this section does
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