On 9/20/21 11:31 AM, Martin Zaske LINGO wrote: > Dear list, > > we are preparing a mild re-design of our magazine, to make it more > suitable for the small screens of phones. > > We also use the occasion to move the entire office to Scribus 1.5.7. > > > I also hope to tune our internal work-flow some more and maybe use > Scribus itself to track the status of each article - as our different > free-lance team-members do their various jobs. People are working on > different computers and projects get moved around, so having the admin > inside, might be a bonus (or a logistics nightmare). > > > I have discovered that on right-click certain items like text-frames or > image-frames have a tool for "Attributes" with Name, Type, Value, > Parameter, Relationship and Relationship to as possible columns. I look > through the inbuilt help and the wiki online and found confirmation in > https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/File_Format_Specification_for_Scribus_1.5 > but no details at all. > > > Now I wonder how we can use these. Are those meant for work-admin for > Scribus users, or are those "Attributes" meant for Scribus-only > "technical" purposes? > > Is there a way to have certain Attributes show up in visible form in a > document? For example one Attribute could be "domain" and somewhere in > our articles we could have a "field" inside a text-frame that would > print "Sports" or "Health"? I am thinking of those "fields" that we are > using for "page number". Can we have "fields" from the "Attributes"? > > > Is there a way to assign Attributes not just to individual items but to > an entire Scribus Document? (I am aware of Document Information in > Document Setup, but Attributes seem to be a different concept, maybe > meant or not meant for readers of final output?) > > Is there a tool to manage Attributes, like we have the "Image Manager" > to see lots of useful data in one location? > > > > Anybody is already using the attributes feature and has tips or warning > to share? > > Thank you for your input, > > Martin > > Hi Martin,
I have long wondered myself what the purpose of attributes is. There is something about attributes in Preferences where it talks about creating a Table of Contents, but exactly how you bring this about I don't know. There is a small chapter in Scribus: The Official Manual covering this, but I don't find it in the online manual. Greg ___ Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
