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Knowledge Base / Getting Started with one2edit™ v4 / For Everyone – v4

Using the Structure Panel

Created on 16th May 2023 at 14:23 by Jamie O'Connell



The Structure Panel displays the document's structure, from the spread right down to the text segment or image.

NOTE: Some options mentioned in this lesson may not be available to you. The availability of options depends on the rules set up by your one2edit™ administrator.

Spreads

Spreads are the first level to be listed within the Structure Panel.

  1. Double-clicking a spread in the Structure Panel will display that spread in the main preview area.
  2. Clicking the triangle next to a spread in the Structure Panel will expand the content of that spread.

NOTE: A Spread is defined as "a set of pages viewed together, such as the two pages visible whenever you open a book or magazine". Spreads may also be single pages, if the document was set up that way in InDesign.

Layers, Frames and Content

  1. Layers: Every spread contains one or more Layers, as defined in the InDesign document.
  2. Frames: On the Layers, you will see Frames (or sometimes Groups, which are groups of frames). Frames are either Text Frames or Graphic Frames (or Unassigned Frames, if they do not contain Text or Graphics).
  3. Content: Inside a frame is the Content which has been added to this Job (i.e. Text Segments or Graphics). Table Characters just mark the beginning of a Table of Text Segments.

Double-clicking any element in the Structure Panel will jump to that element's spread, with the chosen element selected.

NOTE: Each element in the Structure Panel has a descriptive icon beside it, indicating what type of element it is.

NOTE: Sometimes a designer will leave an empty Text Frame in the document (instead of setting the frame's type to Graphic or Unassigned). This can lead to empty Text Segments in the Job that do not need to be edited, but do need to be marked as done.

Notes

Adding a Note to an element will tag it with a small, yellow marker in the Structure Panel.

All structural objects (spread, layer, frame, etc.) within which the tagged content is contained will also have the yellow marker. This helps users to easily find annotated items within a Job, even when all spreads are collapsed.

Overset Text

The target-language text is often of a different length to the source-language text. This can lead to text becoming overset (i.e. too long for the available space), which needs to be taken care of during the copyfitting phase of the Workflow.

Overset text is clearly marked by one2edit™ using:

  1. Yellow warning triangles in both the Structure Panel and the Thumbnail Dock
  2. Red highlighting for any overset text in the Segment Editor

NOTE: Unlike for notes, overset text is not indicated in the main document preview.

Filter the Document Structure

You can also filter the document structure so that only specific Job elements are shown/active.

  1. Click on the Filter at the bottom of the Structure Panel to expand the filter area.
  2. Click on the + (plus) icon to open the menu of filter types.
  3. Choose a filter type you wish to apply to the structure.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 to add multiple filters at once.

Filter Types

The filter options for the Structure Panel are as follows:

  • Item Status: Filter the document structure by the status of job items, e.g., all items marked as done. Multiple statuses can be combined.
  • Item Type: Filter the document structure by one or more item types, e.g., all images.
  • Item Revision: Filter the document structure to show items that were edited during a specific date and time range. It is also possible to filter by revision numbers.
  • Item ID: Filter the document structure by the item IDs. An item's ID can be found in the Text Info or Image Info panels.
  • Item Layer: Filter the document structure to show all items on a particular layer. Multiple layers can be chosen at once.
  • Text: Filter the document structure to show all text segments containing a specific piece of text. Regular expressions can be used for pattern matching.
  • Text Attribute: Filter the document structure by text-styling attributes, e.g., paragraph style, text size, etc.
  • Text Overset: Filter the document structure to show or hide all text segments containing overset text.
  • Text Spelling: Filter the document structure to show or hide all text segments containing spelling errors.
  • Text Rule: Filter the document structure to show or hide all text segments containing Text Rules or styling overrides.
  • Image Path: Filter the document structure by the filename/path of an image, e.g., all images with "iStock" in the filename. Regular expressions can be used for pattern matching.

NOTE: Multiple filter properties can be combined. For example, all text items (Item Type) that are on layer XYZ (Item Layer).

Example: Applying Filters

To filter the document structure:

  1. Choose a filter type from the menu and set it up. In this example, we have chosen Text Overset and checked the Match Oversets option to filter in (not out) the overset text.
  2. Click the checkmark button to apply the chosen filter to the document structure. This is a toggle button, so clicking it again will deactivate the filter.
  3. The structure has now been filtered (in this case, to all segments that contain overset text), and the bottom of the Filter area displays a summary of the filtered items.

NOTE: Only those items filtered into the document structure are now active in the Job. All items that were filtered out are inactive (i.e. not editable) until the filter is switched off by clicking the checkmark button again.

Example: Combining Filters

To apply a combination of two or more filters to the document structure, do the following:

  1. Choose the desired filter types. In this example, we have chosen the Text Overset Filter and the Text Attribute Filter.
  2. We want to filter in all of the overset text in a table. We choose to Match Oversets and then choose the table-text-std Paragraph Style in the Text Attribute filter. This is the style used for our table text.
  3. Apply the filter by clicking the checkmark button. We can see that there is 1 text item that matches these filter options.
  4. The overset text in the table cell is filtered into the structure, and becomes the only active item in the document preview.
  5. Any spread thumbnail not containing an active item is grayed out, so it is easy to visually check where the items are in the document.



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