From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
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Editing and updating files
From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
Editing and updating files
Now I want to talk about what it's like to work in InDesign when you have stories that are part of the workflow and your editors are working in concurrently with you. In order to show you some stories that are checked out by an InCopy user, I'm going to open up this InDesign file in InDesign, but choose not to update the links. So if an editor has edited some of the stories in a layout and you don't have it open, when you open up the document in InDesign, it's going to prompt you to see if you want InDesign to automatically update the editorial changes. Normally, you would. This is the same message that you would get if somebody had modified Photoshop or Illustrator files or something else that you've placed. But in this case, just to show you what it's like if you're working concurrently, I'm going to say don't update the links. All right, so the layout opens up and you can see from the Assignments panel that some stories are checked out and out-of-date. So this icon means that it's…
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Exporting stories from the layout10m 2s
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Working with the Assignments panel in InDesign7m 8s
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Editing and updating files7m 37s
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Using inline notes7m 39s
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Workflow features in the Links panel6m
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Placing new InCopy files4m 15s
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Closing out of a project5m 36s
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