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In this tutorial
we will learn how to create clip art.
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Sets within.
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Invent for use in your.
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MegaEdit products.
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We will link the selected clip.
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arts to a variable.
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Which will appear as a selectable option
within our.
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MegaEdit template.
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The variable will
then be linked to an image.
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Field located on our canvas.
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So a couple of terms to.
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Note that were mentioned in quite a. Bit.
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The variables within.
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Invent are used to create forms
for your products.
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They can take the form of text.
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That can be boolean. So true. Or false
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Dropdown options and much more.
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Another key term of note is resources.
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So these are collections.
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Of assets that can be used to help
create a MegaEdits product.
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There are several forms of assets
available throughout Invent.
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Including backgrounds, clip arts
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And fonts.
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So what we're going to start off
doing here is by creating.
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A new resource set.
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So if we've got.
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InDesign launched and the Invent plugin.
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Make sure you.
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Navigate to your resources tab
and then click on Add resource set.
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This gives you a pop up box.
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Giving you a selection of different
resource set types that you can.
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Choose from.
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In this case, we're.
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Going to go for a clip. Heart set.
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So clip arts can be used as extra design
elements on a product, either as fixed.
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Assets on the. Design or as options for.
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Users to select
when personalizing their MegaEdit product.
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Creating a clip art.
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Set allows you to create a. Container.
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To upload all of the image files
you want to make available.
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These
then get created and included within.
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MegaEdit as a clip arts category.
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And then within that clip category,
there are.
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The individual clip elements themselves.
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So if I press select
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and I'm going to type in a name,
we can set the accessibility level.
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So whether it's only available
for administrators or both administrators
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and users.
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And then we want to add some images
or PDF.
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Files to this particular set.
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So that's just a case of selecting,
locating the files
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that you want to upload
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and clicking
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open.
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You can change the order
in which the resources within.
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The clip set will. Appear.
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And this will also change when they're
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within MegaEdit as well.
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You can consider creating.
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A dropdown
variable automatically using this button.
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Here. So dropdown variables are commonly.
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Created to link
to a particular resource. Set.
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We've added a function
which will automatic create.
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A dropdown variable linked to
this clip art set.
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Any variables can.
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Also be created and modified
separately if required or if preferred.
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So we're going to
check this on in this case and we'll make.
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The variable.
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Automatically.
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And then I'm going to click Save.
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So now we can see that that clip art set
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has been created with two clip
art elements within it.
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And if I navigate across
to my variables tab.
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I can see that it's a drop down
variable has also been created for me.
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So we can.
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Amend this variable if we wish to do so,
and we can create new variables
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by clicking on this add
variable button here.
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These other icons set.
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Up forms and sets of logic
will be covered in future tutorials.
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But now we're just.
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Going to edit our existing
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variable,
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which will bring up a separate pop up
window.
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Where we can.
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Modify
the behavior of that particular variable.
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The first of all,
we're going to select a mode,
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and this gives you a choice
between value or resource.
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So value means that you can manually
add values for the user to select between.
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You can see we could enter some things in.
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There, or we could select resource
which selects between the resource.
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Sets that we've created within Invent.
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So you can see that if I select resource,
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I have two options, which are the ones
I currently created in the resource tab,
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the Academy logos
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and our business card backgrounds.
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If I select a resource
that you can select, which is considered
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to be the default item,
so what the variable
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will go to by default
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and then we can hit
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save to confirm those choices.
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Next, we need to actually set.
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Up a variable image field.
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So we'll begin by loading up the.
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Properties tab within the plugin.
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And then selecting the field.
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That we want to make variable.
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Now there's only one major field on here,
which is this image.
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I click on that you can see is.
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Registered in the properties tab
that this is an image field
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and if we hit enable over on the right
hand.
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Side, that makes that a variable field.
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So that's now going to be controlled
by Invent and subsequently MegaEdit.
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And then we get access
to some additional options.
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So the options.
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That appear allow you to customize the
image settings and the general settings.
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Image
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settings that are modifications
to be made. Or.
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Enabled or disabled in the.
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Selected image itself.
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And we'll cover a bit more about this
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in a later part of this tutorial.
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The general settings.
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Covers modification of.
The image background.
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As well as additional restrictions.
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Such as. Disabling field deletion.
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And. Configuring.
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Transformation commands.
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So if you're on the general tab
and you scroll down a little,
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you'll see that
there's a lot of options close.
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To the bottom.
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Which allow you to enable
or disable certain
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capabilities
of that particular image frame.
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This just allows you to control what.
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The end user will be able to do with this
frame.
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The main thing we're going to control.
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Here, though, is the actual image itself.
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So if we go back to the image tab.
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In order to dynamically change.
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The image from our MegaEdit editor.
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We need to map the. Image
field to either a.
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Specified.
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Variable or a specific resource set.
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So in our example, we'll link it.
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To our created dropdown variable,
which is going to appear in the form.
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And we begin by.
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Selecting variable from the type
dropdown list.
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That will give us a list of all
of the variables that we have created.
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In this case, there's only. One.
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Which we can select.
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Scrolling down a little bit,
we can select media and clip arts.
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From the. Mode dropdown to enable the use.
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Of both resource types.
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So next, we're going to review the image
constraints.
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Image constraints
can be used to control the way.
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In which the end users interact with the.
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Image field.
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And as we saw previously with
the general tab, there are some similar.
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Options available on the Image tab itself,
which will adjust the actual
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image contained within the frame,
whereas the general tab will control
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the frame itself.
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So on the Images tab,
if I come to the constraints.
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Right down at the bottom,
I could make some changes.
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So for example,
I might want to limit some transformation.
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Options such as. Flipping.
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And rotation.
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I can force the image to resize
within the frame.
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Rather than being cropped to fit the frame
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so that in that one
I can select allow fit without.
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Cropping.
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So that's good for something like a logo
where you need to make sure
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you see the entire range.
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And I could enable or disable effects
such as
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effect adjustments, opacity changes
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and that will probably do
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for the selection right now.
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So with all these changes made,
we actually need to.
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Reexport the MEX file which we then import
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into Infigo.
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So first of all,
we go across. To the export tab.
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And repeated.
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Process from previous tutorials in the.
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Series.
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It's just a case of validating the design.
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This will tell you
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if there's any particular problem
you need to be aware of.
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In this case, we.
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Can see there's. A problem,
so we can say the.
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Field does not have general.
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Setting background set correctly.
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Gives you an option to jump.
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Straight to that property,
which in this case is the image field.
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It said there was a background problem.
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So I'll go to General
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and then for background it's
saying that it's looking for a variable,
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but we haven't linked anything,
so I can just change that to unlinked.
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So it's not working to do anything
with the background
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of that frame.
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Back to export.
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And we'll. Try validations again.
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This time
it's just asking me to save the document
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and export.
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Next we'll navigate to our Infigo
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admin area, locate the relevant product.
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In our MegaEdit.
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Products, screen. And edit.
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And then as we've seen in previous
tutorials, we can.
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Re-Import the file on the top right?
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So now will launch the MegaEdit editor
with that product.
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And what we see there is that we now.
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Have our.
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Logo available and it's filling
that particular image field.
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And on the right.
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Hand side we have a dropdown box
which is linked to those.
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clip art
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resource.
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Sets that we defined.
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So we now have the ability to change.
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Between the utilised logo
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if I just put a background selection
on there
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from the previous tutorial
just so we can actually.
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See that.
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We can see that logo is being utilized.
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Now in terms of what the end user
is able to do with.
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This field.
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We can verify that the same way we would.
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As part of the general MegaEdit
capabilities where we can go
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a menu and then emulate user mode.
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From here
we can double click on any of the fields
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and it will allow us to interact.
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With them
in the same way that our end users can.
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So in this case, because we've got do.
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Not select enabled.
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We're not able to interact with that
at all.
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So our end user can't make any changes
apart from
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the dropdown over on the right hand side.
