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Configuring Spread Behaviour in Invent | IV_Logic_002

Setting up spread behavior in InDesign is straightforward. First, group the desired fields by selecting them, right-clicking, and choosing "group." It's advisable to rename the groups and fields for easier management later. Next, enable the fields for Invent to operate on them by selecting each field individually and enabling them in the properties tab. Then, enable the entire group. Ensure all fields are enabled; otherwise, the group can't be enabled. Once enabled, various configuration options are available, such as specifying vertical, horizontal, or no spread behavior, modifying the field arrangement, and setting a group master to control the behavior of other fields.

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Now setting this

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up is actually really, really simple.

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So I'm going to jump to InDesign.

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I realize that the text I've got on here

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is quite small,
but I hope it's okay for everybody.

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and I'll try and keep the products
themselves as large as possible.

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So let me just find the right products
just to show this as an example.

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Now, as I said, setting
this up is really simple.

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It all revolves around
creating groups in InDesign itself.

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Now the InDesign bit of functionality.

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This is not to do with Invent per se.

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so what you'll see here, for example, is
I've got a group,

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we can create a group
just by multi selecting

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different fields on our canvas
right clicking.

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And then you'll have an option
around here which says group.

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It's always a good idea at that point
to actually rename

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your groups and your fields
that are contained within the groups.

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You don't have to do this.

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It just makes it much, much easier,
when you're trying to work with it

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a little bit later on.

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So you do that within the layers
tab inside InDesign itself.

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Just use that to rename the actual group
you've created

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and the fields that contained
within the group.

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From their two steps.

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One of them is to make sure
that the invent can actually operate

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on the individual fields
that you've got present within that group.

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So what that means is going
and selecting all of the fields

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individually that are within that group.

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Going to the properties tab on Invent
and then making sure that

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you've enabled each of those.

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Now once you've
done that and that is an important step,

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you can actually go ahead and select
the group itself that you've created.

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And then make sure the group is enabled.

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Now you won't be able to do this,
if you haven't enabled

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all of the individual fields as well,

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because it needs to be able
to operate on all of them.

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If you want them to,
to work with this behavior.

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Now, when you've enabled that

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group, there's a few options
that you'll have available here.

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And I'm going to show you loads of
different example configurations of these.

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So in a nutshell the options here are
the ability to specify spread behavior.

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So vertical horizontal
vertical and horizontal

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or no spread.

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You've got the ability to modify

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the arrangement of all the fields
within that particular group.

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And again
I'll show you what this means in a moment.

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And you've got the ability to specify
which of those is a group master. So

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if you want that to control the behavior
of the other fields within the group.

 

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