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In this tutorial we will
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investigate the setup and use of Invent
Advanced grouping features.
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These features allow you to align, resize
and space grouped items with precision,
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offering enhanced way out
control and dynamic content
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based resizing for a streamlined design
process.
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First, we will take a look
at how to configure these advanced groups.
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Then we'll take a look
at some examples of them in action.
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And this will be in slightly later
tutorials
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to better understand
how these can be effectively configured.
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So these features work by utilizing
InDesign grouping feature for fields.
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These groups can be enabled inside
an Invent.
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Ensuring Invent
considers them to be dynamic fields.
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And then this opens up
additional configuration options.
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So in our example that we've got on screen
here we've got four fields.
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This consists of two text fields.
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We've got
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one populated image field
with an image in place.
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And then we've got one place holder
image field as well.
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The place holder image frame is optional
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and will be used to define the boundary
of the group in greater detail
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than simply relying on the boundary
created when grouping the main fields.
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So for example, just to show you
what I mean, if I multi-select
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those three frames
and then group those together.
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You'll see
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our boundary is just the extent
of those frames.
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What I can do is utilize this boundary
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frame that we've created here,
which is just an empty image frame,
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to actually extend
the boundary of the entire group.
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If using an image frame
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as a boundary,
it's essential that it is empty in
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Invent will not recognize it
as a possible boundary field.
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If it is not an empty image frame.
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Okay, so I'm going to start off by moving
our boundary frame into position.
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So I'm just going to move it
behind the rest of my fields.
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Now next job is to ensure
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that all of these fields are enabled
inside Infigo in Invent
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enabling them ensures
the Invent sees the fields as variable.
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And this is also a requirement
should you wish to enable the entire group
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of fields inside Invents as well.
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So this is just normal Invent 101.
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So if I go ahead and select
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each of those fields individually,
I can go ahead and enable them.
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And then we could go ahead and just do
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some additional things to that field as we
normally would in an Invent.
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In this case I'm just going to make sure
that they're all
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enabled.
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You'll notice that for image frames,
we don't just get the ability to enable
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or disable them.
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We get the ability to choose
whether it's static.
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So therefore it's not considered enabled.
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Whether it's an image box
or whether we're expecting a barcode.
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So I'm just going to switch to image.
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And then the same with what we're
considering to be our boundary frame.
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Now we want to
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go ahead and create the group
if we haven't already.
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So we'll create our group of fields
in InDesign.
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So we've made sure
we've positioned the fields.
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We're going to select them all.
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That includes the boundary field.
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Right click and then click on group.
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It's highly recommended
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that you rename the group
in the layers tab within InDesign.
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So what you'll see is if I've got this
group we've just created selected
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and go to my properties tab.
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It's just given an ID number
which isn't really very useful to us.
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And you might get the same
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or similar problems
with the individual fields themselves.
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So we recommend going to the layers tab
within InDesign
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and renaming the group,
and maybe the individual fields.
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And what you'll see is if I go back to
Invent, that group has now been renamed.
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So with the group selected, I'm
going to actually enable
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that group within the properties
tab of Infigo Invent.
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With the group still selected.
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We're going to navigate
down to these advanced options.
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Now many other options are available
within the group.
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Now covered in other tutorials
within the Infigo Academy.
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So in terms of the advanced options
adjustments can be made
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horizontally, vertically or both.
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Now these options allow you
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to specifically control
which margins and which size parameters.
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So height and width
all controlled using this functionality.
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In our example we're going to stick
to adjust horizontally
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as all of our grouped
fields are in a horizontal configuration.
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From one another.
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Now as I mentioned before,
a boundary is not required.
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You can just use
the general group boundary.
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But if you want to identify
one of your fields as a boundary,
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you can do so from this list here.
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It will only show empty image fields.
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And as soon as you select a boundary,
the corresponding options further down
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this page will become unavailable because
it's now recognizing that as a boundary
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that you're not going to want to do
any additional modification on.
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It also means
that when you take it over to Mega Edit,
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it's not going to consider that to be
a modifiable field for your end users.
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Now, moving down a little bit, Infigo
provide
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a few default size
and positioning options for the group.
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These will automatically modify
the settings of each individual field
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contained within the group, the options of
which can be seen in the sections below.
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Now these are provided
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as just some default common options,
either to utilize or to serve
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as a starting point
for your own positioning and sizing rules,
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and we'll investigate these options
individually
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in a later tutorial.
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Now each field within
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the group has a section on this page.
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If you click on Advanced settings
on one of those particular field,
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you can see and control the margins
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and the size behavior of this field
relative to other fields
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or the boundaries that are surrounding it.
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Worth noting as well
that if the system hasn't picks
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the fields up in the correct order,
you can change the order
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on this page further up
the list gives them higher priority.
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Depending on the
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advanced options
selected, such as horizontal or vertical.
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You will see different options
displayed within here, controlling
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different margins and different size
parameters of that field.
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Now in our example
where we have horizontal selected,
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we have inputs for control of the left
or right margin.
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Along with the width
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value of the field itself.
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And of course if you had vertical selected
you might see top and bottom.
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And then the height size.
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Now the margin
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input allows you
to control the spacing between this field
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and what other is to the left
or the right of it.
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This could be another field,
or it could be the boundary.
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There's going to be a separate tutorial
which goes through how exactly this works
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in a bit more detail.
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There are also multiple ways
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in which we can specify the value
or behavior of these margins.
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In addition, we can directly control
the width of our field.
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Again, we can do this in multiple ways.
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So let's look at changing
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the behavior
of these particular margins or size.
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We could do this
by clicking on this dropdown list here.
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So this specifically is for the left
margin of our left text field.
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So this margin here.
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And you can see
we've got options for self value or auto.
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So the self option.
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So this means the margin relative position
or size will not be changed
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by the algorithm
from the field's current value.
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If we select a value here
that's the direct
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specification of the margin
or the size parameter.
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And this will override the field's current
position if you require it to do so.
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We have
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auto so the margins or the field size
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will automatically calculate
to fit the space within the group.
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This is a weighted value allowing you
to provide priority to certain spaces.
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And then if we come to the size parameter
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there
you'll see that we have a content option.
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So this allows us to control the size
of a field based on the content within it.
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And this can be applied to both text
and image fields.
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Now again we'll have a later tutorial
which goes through some of these options
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in a bit more detail to hopefully clarify
how each one of those works.
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One final note
when configuring this set of options here,
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we do need to make sure
that the individual text
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field size
constraints are changed from fixed.
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In order to be able
to change the size of the box.
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So if I change that from fixed
to the relevant setting.
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So for this example
it could just be horizontal.
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That will allow us to resize the field.
