Overview

This page walks through one complete product: a table talker for a bar or café, printed on one sheet and folded into a tent so it reads from both sides. One form fills both sides. The customer chooses the offer, and the picture changes to match; for a Free Wi-Fi card, the network details replace the price. They can also pick an accent colour from your brand colours. The page covers the essential steps in order and links to the detailed guide for each part.

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Step-by-step

1. Design both panels on one page in InDesign

   A table talker is one sheet folded into a tent, so design both sides on one page: here 148 x 420 mm (two A5 panels) with a 3 mm bleed. The front panel is the bottom half. The back panel is the top half, turned 180 degrees so it reads the right way up once the sheet is folded. Put the panel backgrounds, your logos and the fold line on a locked Background layer, and the frames customers change (the offer picture, headline, offer text, price and Wi-Fi details) on an Editable layer above it. Give each back-panel frame the same name with back on the end. The price and the Wi-Fi details sit in the same place, because only one of them shows at a time. Draw the fold line in a spot colour (here Crease, set to overprint) so your printer can use it. Keep it on the locked background layer, drawn as a thin filled rectangle. The fold line keeps its spot colour in the exported background. For spot colours set up inside Invent, see Defining and exporting spot colours from Invent.

   Locked background underneath, editable frames on top

   

2. Open the Infigo Invent panel

   Invent works through one panel with five tabs: Resources, Variables, Properties, Setup and Export. If you're new to Invent, start with the business card build.

   The five Invent tabs, next to your design

   

3. Add your brand colours as a Color Set

   In Resources, click Add Resource Set, name it (here Bar colours) and choose Color Set. For each colour, click Select Color, enter its CMYK values, type a UI Name (Coral, Juniper, Navy, Gold) and click Add Color. Click Save. More detail: Creating and utilising a Colour Set resource set.

   Four brand colours in the Bar colours set

   

4. Add a Color Variable for the accent colour

   In Variables, click Add Variable and choose Color Variable. Name it Accent, give it a label and help text, set Mode to Resource, choose Bar colours under Resource Set, pick the Default Resource Item (here Coral) and click Save. The customer can then choose only your brand colours.

   Add Variable > Color Variable

   

   Resource mode, using the Bar colours set

   

5. Add the offer pictures with a dropdown

   Add another resource set, name it Offer images and choose Clipart Set. Click Add Images / PDF and add one picture per offer. Customers choose from the pictures themselves. You pick the files by name in Setup Logic, so give each one a clear name (here Happy hour, Todays special and Free Wi-Fi). Tick Selecting this option will automatically create a dropdown variable for these resources and click Save. In Variables, edit the new Offer images dropdown: give it the label Offer type, help text, and a Default Resource Item. More detail: Dropdown Variables & Clipart Resource Sets.

   One picture per offer, plus a dropdown

   

   Label it Offer type, default Happy hour

   

6. Link the front frames, then the back frames to the same variables

   Select the front Headline frame. In Properties, tick Enable, click Link to new variable, choose Text Variable, and give it a name, label and help text. Then select Headline back, tick Enable, and under Mapped choose Variable and the same Headline variable. Do the same for the offer text, the price and the Wi-Fi details. Because each back frame uses the same variable as its front twin, one form fills both sides. More detail: Configuring text inputs.

   Properties > Enable

   

   Name, label and help text

   

   The back panel uses the same variable

   

7. Map both picture frames to the offer dropdown

   Select the front picture frame, set its Type to Image, and under Mapped choose Variable > Offer images. Do the same for Offer image back. Choosing an offer now changes the picture on both sides.

   Picture frame mapped to Offer images

   

8. Colour the headline and price with the accent

   Select the headline frame. In Properties, under Text Color, set Type to Variable and choose Accent. Do the same for the back headline and both price frames.

   Text Color > Variable > Accent

   

9. Show the Wi-Fi details instead of the price

   In Variables, click Setup Logic, then Add Logic, and add a description. Click + Add Condition: choose Offer images, Equals, then click the value button and select Free Wi-Fi.png. Under Actions, click + Add Action for each frame: Show both Wi-Fi details frames and Hide both price frames. Click + Add Else and add the opposite: hide the Wi-Fi details and show the prices. Click Save. Only frames you've enabled are listed. More detail: IF Statements with Else and Else IF in Invent and Field Actions: Show / Hide.

   IF the offer is Free Wi-Fi: show Wi-Fi, hide the price

   

   ELSE: the reverse

   

10. Lock the layout

    For each editable frame, open Properties > General and, under Restrictions, untick Allow Rotation, Allow Movement, Allow Resizing, Allow Z-order Adjustments and Allow Deletion. This keeps both panels exactly where the fold expects them.

    General > Restrictions

    

11. Check the form order

    In Variables, click Setup Forms and put the fields in the order customers should fill them in: the offer type first, then the headline, offer text, price and Wi-Fi details, and the accent colour last. Click Save. More detail: Building a form in Invent for use in MegaEdit.

    Offer type first, accent colour last

    

12. Turn off extra fields

    In Setup > Field, untick Allow adding text fields and Allow adding image fields, so customers can't add their own text or image fields. For the other Setup options, see Invent Problem Solvers.

    Setup > Field: no extra fields

    

13. Validate and export the .mex file

    In Export, click Set Export File and choose where to save the .mex file. Click Start Validations, then Export, and confirm the Media and Font License Confirmation.

    Start Validations

    

    Export the .mex

    

14. Create the MegaEdit product

    In Catalogue > Products > Product ManagementAn area of Infigo where administrators can create, edit or delete products on a Storefront., click Add new, type the name, set Product type to MegaEdit, use Upload Invent Package to add the .mex, and click Create. Then set the price on Product variants, map it to a category and add a picture. More detail: Creating a MegaEdit product with Invent template.

    Name, MegaEdit type, Invent package

    

    Price on the product variantAn area in the specification of each Infigo Product, generally concerned with the technical elements of the Product.

    

    Mapped to a category

    

15. Check it as a customer

    Open the product as a customer. One form fills both panels. Change the Offer type and the picture changes on both sides; choose Free Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi details replace the price. Choose an Accent colour and the headline and price change colour on both panels. For the rest of the editor, see Introducing the MegaEdit editor interface.

    The table talker in its category

    

    One form fills both panels

    

    The offer changes the picture, and Free Wi-Fi swaps the price for the Wi-Fi details

    

    The accent colour recolours both panels

    

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