Handy Planner (BookMode)

A book is a collection of layouts that are added in a desired sequence and to be used to create a PDF.

The most known method to create a Book-PDF is with the use of InDesign. 
Creating a book takes several steps in InDesign and also requires to open all layouts to be added to the book. This makes it a time consuming and mostly manual action.
 
HandyPlanner in BookMode can help to streamline this process a lot. 
 
The user interface allows you to select a Publication and Issue. All available layouts are then shown in the Unplanned layouts section.
 
Using Drag&Drop the Layouts that are required for this book can now be selected from the available layouts.
Layouts can be re-ordered, inserted and deleted using the first page of each layout as placeholder.
 
When you think you have to book correct, all pages of each layout can be shown so you have a complete overview of your book.
 
Then the book can be saved a bookFile in the Issue. You can have multiple bookFiles in an Issue. This allows to have for example a student book and a teachers book containing additional pages.
 
When saved the bookFile can be Produced to PDF. Allowing to select the PDF quality. 
 
Depending on configuration and pricing, three different methods can be selected to create the BookPDF
 
1. IDS: Using InDesignServer to directly create the BookPDF
2. ServerPlugin: Using InDesignServer to create the separate pages and use a StudioServerPlugin to stitch the separate pages together to form the final BookPDF
3. AWS-Lambda: Using InDesignServer to create the separate pages and use an AWS Lambda function to create the final bookPDF
 
In all cases the created bookPDF is stored back in a dossier in Studio.

HandyPlanner for Books can be combined with Revision Compare.
 
 
 
Collapsed view, only the first page of a layout can be seen, this helps for quick organising of the layouts
 
 
 
Expaned view, all pages are visible, it is still possible to re-arrange the order of the layouts
 
 

Handy Planner (PagePlanning)

HandyPlanner is a light client that interacts with the WoodWing StudioServer planning API.
Trough this API layouts can be planned in an Issue.

A video showing HandyPlanner functionality can be viewed here

HandyPlanner will allow you to re-arrange the pages in an issue. The functionality is :

  • Move pages to a new position, pages will respect their odd/even pagenumber
  • Insert page locations to create more space. All existing pages will be moved up in pagenr.
  • Delete page locations to reduce space. All existing pages will be moved down in pagenr.
  • Place a template page, this will result in a new Layout being created.
  • New pages created in InDesign will automatically be 'planned' if the assigned page positions are free
  • Placing a layout with multiple pages will automatically create space in the plannning
  • Trigger InDesignServer to update the page-numbers of moved Layouts
  • Use Sections to seperate the responsible teams.
  • View Layouts in Planned order.

Depending on access-profile settings, the HandyPlanner plugin will also take care that your Publication Overview will show the pages as they are planned in the Issue.

HandyPlanner is not supposed to be a full size planning system, there are others that are already have great products for that.

 

The planning userinterface



 

Options that can be set from StudioServer

 

Woodwing Integrations

The custom software that is specifically being developed for a customer might also be interresting for other customers.

This is not only valid for solutions provided by GloveLike, but also for other partners that develop extentsions to the Woodwing product.

Now there is one common website where these solutions are offered.

Keep in mind that even if there is no solution provided for your specific case, we probably will be able to help you with the extensive skill set that is availabe.

 

For the website, please look at 'Woodwing Integrations'

 

 

 

Revision Compare.

For some branches it might be required to validate changes made in an Issue.

For example in financial reports:

  1. A first revision might contain errors that have been detected.
  2. These errors needs to be corrected
  3. Resulting in a second revision

and so on

On each moment in time a so called 'Issue Revision' can be made. Consider this a snapshot of the current production status.

Using the Revision Compare client the user can select two revisions and upload them to the compare engine.

In the current version we use Draftable for this .

The Draftable client will be loaded and will highlight the differences between the two selected revisions.




If you want to see more, there are two short videos to watch:

- Compare Layout Revisions: https://youtu.be/kpddUU3sRpM

- Compare Issue Revisions: https://youtu.be/EQ2bDPHyjXY

 

 

 

Global Components

The Global Components plugin (Snippets) will add functionality to the WoodWing Digital Editor. Think of the snippits as a library with placable prefilled components.

Users can select a snippit from a list and paste it in the Digital Article.

This can be used for example to:

- insert contact/address information in an article.

- insert Author component (Name, picture, contact details)

- insert Information blocks like 'Festival data', 'Hayfever season'

etc

Users with admin rights can create article 'snippits' themself and add these to the list of availabele Snippits

 

WoodWing Aurora Publish-History

This is a very low-level publish history viewer to be used in WoodWing Aurora ContentStation.


The plugin will keep track of each publish action.
The stored information contains the date/time, the user that published and to which channel was published.

This will work for Enterprise 10.4/10.5 and CS11.2x

 

 

You can download the sample plugin and instructions from bitbucket:
glovelike - digitalpublishhook

Handy Placer

Handy placer is currently being developed

Handy Placer is an extention to WoodWing Studio Client. It alows you to place several kind of objects on a layout from just one UserInterface.

You can place:

  • A complete dossier , Article and Images
  • An Article
  • Components of an Article, so you can have for example multiple headlines to choose from
  • Images.

All from the same browser tab.

The option to place a dossier in one is a powerfull option. First place the Dossier, the text and images will be placed

then select the article in which the dossier was placed and replace images if the initial selection was not to your liking.

Text Import to Digital Editor

While migrating to the DigitalEditor or for external writers that deliver text, it can be a bit of a hassle to get the text into the right components.
Normally this will result in a lot of cut and paste actions.

Take a look at the solution GloveLike created for one of their customers. Where the source text is enriched with some small markers that result in a direct import into the correct components.

 

Interview Import

 

EnFocus Switch Enterprise upload/download

This information will be updated soon.

 

 

Portfolio

 

 

Skill-set

I am a WoodWing Certified Consultant, with prooven track record showing many customizations, integrations and add-ons to the WoodWing core-product.

Woodwing Products

  • EnterpriseServer Plugins to extend or change functionality
  • Enterprise API
  • ContentStation CS9 and CS11 add-ons
  • Automation using InDesign (Server)
    (PDF) export, automated placing, converting jobs etc.
  • Automation using Enterprise API
  • Aurora Export (to CMS)
  • End User Satisfaction 
    (add-ons, these little things that make end-users happy)
  • Elvis DAM API,
  • Elvis DAM WebHooks


Programming Languages and Tools

  • Web UI development , using html, javascript , css, jQuery
  • (web) Server development, PHP, SQL, node.js , shell scripting,
  • AWS functionality : Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB etc
  • Native Client Development on Windows and Mac, using Delphi
  • SQL, Sybase, Oracle databases
  • Experienced in Unix, Solaris, IBM, LINUX flavors