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You then link a section to one or more templates, which specify the layout of the items on the page. Each item is
placed into an editable region of the template. A single item can be used in multiple templates.
When you create a section, a section folder appears in the site window. This folder contains a section.aglsec file,
which is used to manage the items and link to the preview page. The folder also contains separate pages, stories, and
templates folders.
To create a Co-Author section and Co-Author items
1
Create a new site or open an existing site.
2 Choose Special > Create Co-Author Section, and then enter a Section Title in the “section.aglsec” window that
appears.
3 Do one of the following:
•
Import items from an external data source, such as an InDesign Package for GoLive file or a comma-delimited file.
(See “To import items from an external data source” on page 455.)
• Manually enter items in the “section.aglsec” window. (See “To manually enter items in the section window” on
page 456.)
Match the item name to the corresponding region name in the template file to which you’ll link the section. Matching
the names ensures that the stories populate the templates correctly.
4
Choose the sort order for the Co-Author Editor and Adobe Co-Author Stories list from the Sort menu:
By Creation Date
Sorts the stories list in the order the items were created.
By Data Item Sorts the stories list in the order of the specified data item.
5
From the List Item menu, specify the field that you want to appear in the stories list of the Co-Author Editor and
Adobe Co-Author. The Sort and List Item fields do not necessarily need to match. For example, you can view product
names (List Item) in the stories list, and then sort them by their prices (Data Item).
6
In the Preview Page field, specify the page that you want to appear in the Preview tab of the Co-Author Editor and
in Adobe Co-Author. You must create and save the page file before you can specify it.
The Co-Author “section.aglsec” file used to create and manage sections
To import items from an external data source
You can use InDesign Package for GoLive (IDPK) files (created from merged InDesign documents) or comma­
delimited (CSV) files as external data sources. For example, you can populate fields in Co-Author sections with data
from a linked CSV file.