Overview video
0:00 Roller banner product - overview
0:03 This page builds one complete large-format product: an 850 by 2000 millimetre roller banner your customers personalise with a photo, a headline, a strapline and a website, on a background they choose.
0:17 You design the banner at full size in InDesign. Invent, the InDesign plugin, turns each frame into a field, adds your backgrounds and photos, and sets a minimum resolution for uploaded photos.
0:30 In your admin area, you create a MegaEdit product and upload the .mex file to it.
0:37 Your customer picks a background and a photo, writes their headline, and sees the whole banner update as they go.
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 roller banner product, end to end
0:03 In this video we'll build a roller banner from start to finish. You design it in InDesign at full size. Invent, the plugin for InDesign, turns parts of the design into fields, adds sets of backgrounds and photos, and exports a .mex file. You upload that file to a MegaEdit product, and your customer personalises the banner in the editor.
0:25 The banner is 850 by 2000 millimetres with a 5 millimetre bleed. The background and logo strip sit on a locked layer at the bottom, and the frames the customer fills in sit on an editable layer above it. Keep locked items below the editable layer, so the banner displays properly in MegaEdit.
0:44 In Resources, add a resource set called Banner backgrounds, and choose Background Set.
0:50 Add each full-size background customers can choose, then save.
0:55 Add a Clipart Set called Hero photos, with the photos customers can pick for the main image.
1:02 Add an Image Variable called HeroPhoto. Allow uploads, and tick the Hero photos set.
1:09 Select the photo frame, set its type to Image, and map it to the HeroPhoto variable.
1:16 Link the headline, strapline and website frames to Text Variables, each with a label and help text.
1:23 On the headline and strapline, tick Fit to box and Fit to box Wrapping, so longer text shrinks and wraps to fit.
1:31 In each frame's General tab, untick rotation, movement, resizing, z-order and deletion, so everything stays in the safe area.
1:40 In Setup, turn off extra fields, and set a minimum image resolution. A small photo will then be flagged before the customer orders.
1:49 Validate, then export the .mex file and confirm the licence message.
1:56 In Product Management, add a new MegaEdit product and upload the .mex. Then set the price and the category.
2:04 As a customer, Background selection lists your backgrounds. Click one, and the whole banner changes.
2:11 Select Image offers uploads or your Hero photos set, and the photo appears on the banner straight away.
2:18 If the customer uploads a photo that's too small for the banner, the field is outlined and flagged as low resolution.
2:26 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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