If you want to edit the story, just click OK and get to work.įigure 8.19. If you try to edit an available story in InCopy without checking it out first, InCopy will warn you and offer to check out the story for you (Figure 8.19). InCopy users can also select a story in the Assignments palette and choose the Check Out command in the palette menu, or Control/right-click on an assignment in the Assignments palette and choose Check Out from the contextual menu. inca), selecting a story in the document window or the Assignments palette, and choosing File > Check Out. InCopy users check out stories by opening a document (.indd.
Users can check out and edit stories from within InDesign or from within InCopy. Users can only check out content that has already been exported as an InCopy story and hasn't been checked out by another user. Therefore, it's virtually impossible to save over each other's work. The only way for a person to work on a file is to check it out (as opposed to opening it). That means multiple users can be looking at it simultaneously, but an individual story can only be checked out by one person at a time. In a managed environment, multiple users can open an InDesign file (.indd), InCopy story (.incx), or an InCopy assignment (.inca) simultaneously. Instead of relying on people's good intentions, the LiveEdit plug-in workflow introduces a check-in/check-out mechanism to manage the content. This parallel workflow results in significant productivity gains, but it also requires a mechanism or policy that prohibits multiple users from editing the same story at the same time and saving over each other's work.Īnybody who has collaborated with other people and saved files to a common file server has known the frustration of inadvertently saving over another person's file. As you know, this separation of content and design makes it possible for multiple editors and writers using InCopy to collaborate on a publication at the same time that an InDesign user is working on the design of the spreads. The purpose of exporting InCopy stories from InDesign is to separate the text from the layout.
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