Operation Manual

290 Adding Dynamic Content
WebPlus lets you create your own photo databases for showcasing
digital art—EXIF data is also stored. See WebPlus help for more
details.
Inserting repeating areas for your data
For merging to work correctly you'll need to include the contents of your data
source on a Web page. WebPlus assists by allowing you to quickly create a
repeating layout that arranges placeholder fields, generating a new document
with as many pages as needed and populating the fields with text or images
from a specified data source. You can create any number of data sources, but
can only have one open at a time per repeating area.
Each repeating area has its own data source; only one repeating
area can occupy each Web page.
A repeating layout starts with a repeating area—basically a single cell whose
unit size determines how many database records can tile across and down on
a page. Within the repeating area, you can place any elements, such as:
• One or more text fields with data drawn from the same record.
• One or more picture fields where you want merged picture(s) from a
particular data record to appear.
• Other objects such as artistic text, QuickShapes... anything you want!
You take care of creating the repeating area and placing the fields (or other
elements), while WebPlus takes care of replicating them into a repeating grid