Overview video
0:00 Wedding invitation product - overview
0:03 This page builds one complete product: a wedding invitation where your customers pick the font and colour of their names, choose the wording, set the date and time, and decide whether to include a reception line.
0:16 You design the invitation in InDesign. Invent, the InDesign plugin, turns each line into a field, links the names to your font and colour sets, and adds a rule that shows or hides the reception line.
0:30 In your admin area, you create a MegaEdit product and upload the .mex file to it.
0:37 Your customer fills in the form and sees every choice on the invitation straight away: a new font, a new colour, different wording.
0:45 The Step-by-step tab walks through the whole build, with links to the detailed guide for each part. You can also download the finished sample from the Downloads tab and use it as your starting point.
Step-by-step video
0:00 Build a wedding invitation product, end to end
0:04 In this video we'll build a wedding invitation from start to finish. You design it in InDesign. Invent, the plugin for InDesign, turns each line into a field, links the names to your fonts and colours, adds a rule for the reception line, and exports a .mex file. You upload that file to a MegaEdit product, and your customer personalises the invitation in the editor.
0:26 Start with a finished design: a 5 by 7 inch invitation with a 3 millimetre bleed. The artwork is on a locked layer, and every line the customer can change has its own frame.
0:38 In Resources, add a resource set called Invitation fonts, and choose Font Set.
0:44 Click Get OS Fonts, pick a font and add it. Invent asks you to confirm you have a licence to use it for embedding, web and print.
0:53 Add each font customers can choose, and tick the option to create a dropdown for them.
0:59 Next, a Color Set called Accent colours. Set each colour in CMYK, give it a name, and add it.
1:07 Four colours, and a dropdown for those too. Edit each dropdown to give it a label and a default.
1:14 For the wording, add a Dropdown Variable. Each option has a short label the customer picks, and the value printed on the invitation. Formal is the default.
1:24 Add a Date Variable with a default date. A custom format of day, month and year prints it in full.
1:31 Add a Time Variable on a 12-hour clock, set to 2 pm.
1:36 Add a Boolean Variable called IncludeReception, ticked by default. Setup Logic will use it in a moment.
1:44 Link each text frame to a Text Variable with a name, a label and help text.
1:50 On the names frame, set Text Color to the Accent colours dropdown, and Font Option to the Invitation fonts dropdown.
1:58 Map the wording, date and time frames to their variables.
2:03 In Setup Logic, add a rule: if IncludeReception is selected, show the reception field. Otherwise, hide it.
2:11 Lock each frame's position and size, then use Setup Forms to put the fields in order.
2:17 Turn off extra fields in Setup, then validate and export the .mex file.
2:24 In Product Management, add a new MegaEdit product and upload the .mex. Then set the price and the category.
2:32 As a customer, the form starts with the names, then their font and colour.
2:38 Each choice opens your options, and the invitation updates straight away: a new font, a new colour, then the joyful wording.
2:46 Untick Include the reception line, and the logic hides it. Tick it again, and it comes back.
2:52 That's the whole build. Download the sample pack from the Downloads tab to see every setting, or use it as the starting point for your own.
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