This section covers information specific to the publication objects in STEP that is important to know when working with publications. For general object maintenance information (applicable to all object types rather than specific to publication objects), see the All Objects topic within this guide here.
Before generating InDesign pages from STEP through any of the STEP Publisher components—STEP'n'design ('drag and drop'), STEP Flatplanner, STEP AutoPage, or STEP Publishing Web UI—it is necessary to build out a publication hierarchy (green hierarchy) in the STEP Workbench.
The topics in this section describe how to manually create the necessary objects in the Tree that compose a standard publication hierarchy. Instructions are also included for duplicating a publication and linking products, assets, and classifications to nodes (publications and sections) in the publication hierarchy.
Before creating any of the objects detailed in this section, you must first ensure that all relevant object types for the publication hierarchy have been created in System Setup. Instructions on how to create and configure these object types are detailed in the Creating a Standard Publication Object Type Hierarchy section of the System Setup / STEP Super User Guide documentation
A publication hierarchy can also be built by importing a STEPXML or Publication Excel file. Details on these more automated methods of creating a publication hierarchy are not included in the Publication Maintenance documentation. For more information on building a publication and publication hierarchy through imports, see the following sections of the STEP online help / STEP user guides:
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