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Repeating Objects
It's common to have items like navigation buttons, headers or logos repeating on all pages of your
website.
Web Designer Premium provides the ability to repeat any item in the same place on any of your web
pages. When you update one of the copies, Web Designer Premium automatically replicates those
changes across all pages that have a copy of the repeating object.
On most of the template designs the main navigation buttons are repeating. You can make any object
such as a button a repeating object by right clicking it and choosing Repeat on all pages
. The object is copied to the same place on all pages, displaying the repeating symbol icon in the top right
hand corner. If you make any further changes to this item all the copies will be automatically updated.
However if the bar is set to be a Site navigation bar
it automatically appears the same on all pages of your site and there is no need to make it a repeating
object.
Logo text and footers are also normally set to be repeating objects in the templates. Again this means you
can edit them on one page, and the same object is automatically updated on all other pages.
Note
: This uses the current page as the source of the repeating items to update across all the other pages.
The red box highlights the repeating object symbol, shown on every instance of the repeating object
If you don't want a copy of the repeating object on a page, just delete it from that page. When edited, the
repeating object is only automatically updated to those pages that already have it. This means you can
choose which of the pages in your document should have the repeating object and which should not.
If you want a repeating object on just a few pages of a large website, you can:
1.
First make your object repeat on all pages of your site, using Arrange > Repeat on all pages.
2.
Select one of the repeating objects and copy it to the clipboard ("Ctrl + C").
3.
Hit the Delete key and choose the Delete from all pages option when prompted.
4.
Now simply paste the repeating object onto each page that needs a copy of it.
Editing the contents of a repeating object
When Web Designer Premium creates a repeating object, the repeating items are placed in a containing
'repeating group', similar to a normal group. If you drill down to a layer containing a repeating object in
the Page & Layer Gallery
, you can see that there's a repeating group containing each repeating object on that layer.
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