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In this situation you open the Box properties dialogue and receive the Auto button as shown
above.
(The Auto button only appears under these conditions.)
Importing “hand made” documents in 4 steps
To prepare an already existing, conventionally created document for transfer into the database
you must first number all the article modules, export all the boxes and then import them into
the database. The numbers of the article modules must be new and must not have been used
previously in the database.
The number assignment and importing of conventionally created QuarkXPress documents into
the DATAform database, taken here as an example of a DATAformXTension application, is
performed with the following 4 main steps:
1. Search for next record number
To receive the next free record number it is easiest to create a new record in your database.
In the footbar (in DATAform database) the desired number appears beside Nº, in this case 25.
2. Prepare article modules, specify Box IDs
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Group all boxes of the first module as a QuarkXPress group.
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Deactivate the group by clicking beside it. Then activate the main text box with the content
tool and call the menu command “Box properties...”:
The dialogue makes a proposal for the article number depending on the boxes in the Quark-
XPress document. The proposal “1001” appears if the document does not yet contain any
DATAform boxes.
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Now overwrite the module number with the first free number found in the database, in this
example 25:
The proposal for the object Nº was “1001”, the digits “001” are the ID for main text box,
the module number is the number before “001”. You therefore overwrite the “1” with “25”
and get “25001”:
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