All of the customisable branding features within our various templated apps is listed below.

To find out how to create an edition, either watch the support video below or follow the steps below.

How to Create a New Publication Video

Step by Step Guide: How to Create a New Publication Video

1. Select ‘Create Publication’ from the main menu on the home screen
2. Complete the following fields.
   1. Title Name: Name of Publication.
   2. Publication Description (RSS Feed): Enter a description if you will be enabling RSS feeds for your Digital Editions.
   3. Publication Type: Frequency of the publication, choose ‘one off’, ‘daily’, ‘weekly’ or ‘monthly’.
   4. Contact Name/Email Address: Details of the main point of contact for your publication.
   5. Reader Version: Interface set to display your edition. ‘Precision’ is set by default as it is our fastest and most up-to-date version. For more information on the different interfaces please contact your Account Manager.
3. Select ‘Create Publication’ to confirm the settings. You will see a prompt to confirm your details, click ‘Yes, Create’ to move to the next stage.
4. The next stage will be to Create an Edition within the Publication.

 

To find out how to create an edition, either watch the support video below or follow the steps below.

How to Create an Edition Video

Step by Step Guide: How to Create an Edition Video

1. To create a new edition, you need to firstly find the publication you want to add the edition to. After finding your publication, hover over and click the manage button. You will then see the option to Create new edition or issue.Then complete the following details
   1. Name: By default, the current date becomes the edition’s name, however, a custom name can be entered. For example, you could name your edition in the following format, ‘August Issue’
   2. Description (RSS Feed): Enter a description if you will be enabling RSS feeds for your Digital Edition.
   3. Release Date: This is the date the edition will go live. Leave as default if the edition is to go live immediately after it has been processed.
   4. Time: You can specify a time to schedule your edition to go live.
   5. FTP Folder: Leave as default unless you are uploading more than one edition of the same publication per day.

    

   After confirming those details, the next step will be to upload your PDFs.

Upload PDFs via FTP

Upload PDFs via HTML5

1. Select ‘Upload this edition’s pages’.

2. Login to your FTP client with the FTP details provided and upload your PDFs. You can send the FTP details via email by entering an email address in the box below.3. There are various FTP clients that can be downloaded for free, we recommend: FileZilla, Win SCP, Cyberduck (mac only) and Fetch.4.

The next step will be to process your edition.

1. Select ‘Upload this edition’s pages’ in the Basic Options menu. 
2. You will see the following page which will allow you to select the PDFs that you want to upload to the edition folder. You need to click on the following section. 
3. You need to locate your PDFs and click ‘open’.
4. A status bar will appear while the PDFs are being uploaded.
5. The PDFs you have uploaded will appear here.
6. Click on the Edition name within the breadcrumbs at the top to navigate back to your Edition. 
7. You will then see how many pages have been uploaded and need processing.

The next step will be to process your edition.

Quick Schedule

1. If you would like your edition to start processing as soon as possible, select the option ‘schedule x files ASAP’
2. This will then show you the date and time that your edition is set to process.
3. When you refresh the screen you will see the processing status bar.
4. If you added your email earlier as the main point of contact for the publication (when you created the publication), you will also receive an email when the PDF has finished processing.

Schedule

1. If you would like to specify a date and time when you would like the edition to start processing, select ‘schedule edition’.
2. Use the calendar to choose which day you would like to schedule your edition for processing. Available times will be highlighted in yellow.
3. The schedule details will display on the edition information page and a status bar will appear at the schedule time to show the status of your edition.
4. A thumbnail of the publication cover will appear when an edition has finished processing. Click on the cover to view your edition.
5. Once the edition has finished processing you will see the page thumbnails. You can click on these to launch the edition.

This video shows how to find a publication and goes through the quick link options.

We hope you found this video useful, if not please contact our support team via the form below.

To find out how to search for an edition within the HTML5 reader, either watch the support video below or follow the steps at the bottom of the page.

We hope you found this video useful, if not please contact our support team via the form at the bottom of the page.

Step by Step Guide: Searching for an Edition

After logging into the PageSuite portal, click on the publications tab then select view publications.

From here you can start typing the name of the publication you want into the search bar. You should then see the list diminish.

After you have found the publication, hover over it and click on the manage option.

This will take you to the publication. From here you can click on the View Latest Edition option or access all editions via the View All Editions option.

To find out how to change any icon along the top of the HTML5 reader, either watch the support video below or follow the steps at the bottom of the page.

We hope you found this video useful, if not please contact our support team via the form at the bottom of this page.

Step by Step Guide: Changing an Icon

Within the HTML5 reader, every single icon along the top bar is customisable to match your company branding.

To do this you must initially access the publication you wish to customise.

Then access the publication settings and click on the Top Bar tab.

You will then be able to see the options for Icons and Desktop Icons.

When you expand these headings you will see all of the icons that are available to customisable.

If you already have your image hosted elsewhere, you can directly drop in the URL for that new button.

Alternatively, you can upload your media to PageSuite.  After clicking the upload button you will be able to browse your files and select the file you would like to use for the icon.

After the image has been uploaded, click on the one you would like to use, it will turn blue and then click the green ok button.

If you hover over the image you will see a preview appear in the middle of the screen.

After these steps have been completed, scroll to the bottom of the page and click save.

You will notice underneath every icon it shows a recommended size to use, this 64×64 pixels.

To find out what advertising options are available and how to add them into your HTML5 publication, either watch the support video below or follow the steps at the bottom of the page.

We hope you found this video useful, if not please contact our support team via the form at the bottom of this page.

Step by Step Guide: Adding Advertising

After logging into the PageSuite portal, click on the publications tab then select view publications.

Find the publication you would like to add advertising to and click on Publication Settings, then the advertising tab.

It will now display all the different types of advertising that can be added into the publication.

If it’s not checked already, check the “Adverts Enabled” checkbox which can be found on the “Adverts” tab. 

It will now display all the different types of advertising that can be added into the publication.

Options to turn on each different type of advert will appear. Check the “Enable” checkbox next to the advert you wish to switch on. N.B. Article Popover Ads are enabled in the article templates.
Options to select the advert type will appear. You can only select one type for each advert.

Depending on which advert type you have selected; a series of options will appear. You must complete all required options before you’ll be able to save.

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After completing the required fields click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.

If you need to know the required advertising and branding dimensions click here.