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2.1.2 Creating a title

Nathan Virtue
posted this on July 01, 2011 11:15 am

In order to upload and covert a document to a digital edition (issue) you'll need to have a title available to upload your PDF to.

If you don't have a title already you will need to create one.

The system will take you to the create title screen if you try to upload a file without an existing title.

OR you can create a title by doing the following:

 

1) Click on the "Manage Issues" icon in the welcome screen OR the Titles/Issues button in the horizontal menu bar

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2) If you don't already have a title you will be automatically taken to the create title interface(step 4), otherwise you can click on the Create New Title tab.

Create_New_Title_Option.png

 

3) You will then see a popup window asking you "How would you like to create a new title?":  from scratch OR duplicate from an existing title.

Either choice will take you to the create title screen in Step 4, but if you choose to duplicate from an existing title and click "go", all settings will auto populate and match the title you chose in that dropdown menu.

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4) In this New Title screen, you can simply enter text in the "name:" text box (1 in image below) and click "Add Title" button (3 in image below) to quickly get your title created so you can upload a new PDF.

Otherwise, you can go about choosing the specific settings for your title using the quick access left side menu (2 in image below) and then click Add Title to create the new title.

Either way, you can always come back later and Edit the title to make any changes.

  • Basics>Appearance/Branding:  Choose your Banner/Background Color, Banner Logo (optional) and Background Image (optional) *check the "Banner Visual" section to get a preview of your styling settings
  • Basics>Options:  Choose flipbook interface language, Content language (beta), Default Publishing Domain, Page Offset, Platform versions, Flipbook and/or Mobile Options *check the "Banner Visual" section to get a preview of your toolbar button options
  • Basics>Search Engine Optimization:  Describe your title, Choose keywords,  Block search engines from indexing your content (if necesssary)
  • Widgets>Welcome Popup: Choose to activate a popup that will appear to users upon desktop reader load.  Define the popup with html/js/css, set the size and optional timeout to auto disappear (otherwise user must close this popup)
  • Widgets>Custom Embed: Either use the predefined helper codes for RSS, Twitter and Facebook OR Define your own custom left hand side widget using html/js/css.  Specify a width of the widget area too.  This widget will display at all times in the desktop reader platform.
  • Widgets>Clipping Side Bar: If you have clippings you can choose to display a right hand side widget that users can save their clippings to.  You can also allow users to email their clippings to a specific email address (good for order forms!)
  • Widgets>Annotation Tools(beta): Activate annotation tools for your end users like page bookmarks and page notes/comments.  Your title also needs to have remote authentication OR subscription system enabled in order for annotations to be saved to a specific user.
  • Automation>FTP Scheduler:  Setup automatic PDF uploads at given times to reduce your workload!  Just setup some simple FTP settings that correspond with your local FTP host (you must have this setup yourself) and our system will pull your files for conversion automatically.
  • Security>Remote Authentication:  Use your own user database to protect your title to only those who are authorized to view.  Our system will interact with your system to authenticate users trying to access your publications. (*Only one security option can be used at one time)
  • Security>Subscriptions:  Use our powerful system to protect your publications, build subscriber lists, monitize your subscriptions with paypal integration and keep in touch with your subscribers with email campaigns. (*Only one security option can be used at one time)
  • Security>E-Commerce:  You can choose to offer your publications on our open newsstand and sell those publications to the list of newsstand users. (*Only one security option can be used at one time)
  • Advanced>Parser Defaults: Choose the Default Link Style, Default Cover Thumbnail  and Default DPI (image quality) for all of your future uploads (doesn't change previous uploads/conversions)
  • Advanced>Newsstand Default Settings: Predefine newsstand choices so when you choose to publish your issues on the newsstand, the categories will be prefilled

New Title creation screenshot

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