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Template Page Definitions.
There are three types of page that you can define for a template in the InfoChannel Main menu:
- TEMPLATE Background Only
- TEMPLATE Graphic Clip
- TitlePage
A template can have one or two of these pages defined, depending on whether the template should offer a title page for the message. In any case, the page or pages immediately follow the Variable Definitions group in the Main menu.
To specify the page type, you give the page one of the three names above. For a TEMPLATE Graphic Clip page you must also position a clip placeholder (as specified in the System Configuration dialog, normally Clipart\Holders\Clip.gif) on the page and make sure that the position and length of template text elements leave enough room for the clip.
A background for any page type can be given a particular status, one of two that can be defined for Reporter template pages, default and locked.
- The Default Background.
The background image on which you design your template is the default background. Generally you use an image designed especially for a particular message or type of message. It might have logos, text, boxes or other graphic features appropriate to the production.
You add a background in the Main menu like any page. The background image appears in the Choose a Background box in Reporter when a message with that template is selected. The word "Default" appears above the box.
The default background can be changed by the Reporter author if necessary.
- The Locked Background.
A locked background is created from a default background. It functions like a default background in every way, with the exception that the Reporter author cannot change a locked background. Clicking on a locked background image in Reporter only results in a dialog stating that the background cannot be changed.
The word "Locked" appears above the Choose a Background box in Reporter when a message with a locked-background template is selected.
A background is defined as locked by including a special text element on the page itself. When a text element consisting only of "LOCKED" (all caps, without quote marks) is placed on the template page, Reporter recognizes the background as a locked background.
The position, font, size, styles, etc. of this special element do not matter; only its text content is evaluated by Reporter to determine whether the background is a locked background. The "LOCKED" element does not appear in playback.
