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• • October 27, 2015 at 8:25 am #79030
    Susan Godel

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    I’ve found the new Publish Online capability very useful, in fact truly amazing in it’s one-click ability to create fixed-layout content, with support for interactivity, and make it immediately available via web. Wow!

    So, I’ve prepared some work that will be made available this way to a large audience at a January meeting. But I have to supply the URL far in advance– like today. And my concern is that there is no way to manage, organize, or protect the projects uploaded to the Publish Online Dashboard. What if I am a complete bonehead and delete that file between now and January? Poof! That URL will never exist again, and my project will be essentially nonexistent. It only takes one errant click! I’ve done dumber things in my life.

    I desperately wish that there was a way of locking, or at least isolate certain files once they are there. I’m wondering if there are any InDesign Secrets about this yet?

  • October 27, 2015 at 8:45 am #79031
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Fortunately, Adobe recently announced that the next version of InDesign and Publish Online (coming “soon”) will allow you to update your publish online docs… that is, you have one URL and then you can update the document there.

    However, I honestly can’t remember if it will work with URLs you create today. Probably will, though.

  • October 27, 2015 at 9:57 am #79033
    Susan Godel

    Participant

    Updating content yet retain the URL will be a very good thing. But still no protection if the file gets deleted after the URL has been distributed.

    But I’m hopeful that the next, and future releases will offer that and more. I noticed that the most recent update did huge things for honoring transparency effects. Awesome progress on that front.

    Thanks for the response, David.

  • October 27, 2015 at 10:08 am #79034
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Oh, I see what you mean… you mean you want a custom URL instead of a “random one” that the Publish Online system gives you?
    I think the bigger answer, until then, is “Don’t delete the Publish Online document from the Dashboard.” ;-)

  • October 28, 2015 at 5:39 am #79043
    skemp

    Member

    If you are able to create your own webpage then you could simply set up a forwarding url that you know will not change and then if the url to your Publish Online document should change, simply replace it on your “webpage”.

    That way you can supply the url in advance and know it will always redirect to where you want it to.

  • October 28, 2015 at 7:13 am #79047
    Susan Godel

    Participant

    Skemp, that is a good idea — I had the same one in the middle of the night, last night. A “Duh” moment. Thank you for validating my logic. I realize now I should have supplied a URL that is in my control, with a redirect to the Adobe. That way if I have to Re-Publish Online the project, I can change the redirect. I might still be able to make that happen.

    If I can’t, then David’s advice still holds — “Don’t delete the Publish Online document from the Dashboard.” That’s easy enough. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    Thanks!

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