Embedded texts are written in a text editor directly in the document definition in Composition Center. They cannot be shared with other users or reused in other document definitions. The business users can apply rules and control how the embedded text flows in business documents.
Image and text resources can be shared with other users and re-used in any number of document definitions. The business users can apply rules and control how text and image resources flow in output documents. To publish a document definition, all included image and text resources must be approved.
Image resource are uploaded from disk in Composition Center. The images are included in their original size in output documents and cannot be resized in Composition Center.
If there is a Media Management repository available, you can set up a connection to the repository in Control Center to enable business users to link image assets directly to document definitions. During runtime, the latest versions of the images are included in the business documents. The images are included in original size and cannot be resized in Composition Center. For information about how to set up a connection to a Media Management repository, see
Connecting to an OpenText Media Management repository in the
Control Center documentation.
The business user can add exposed stories to document definitions that are based on StoryTeller templates. An exposed story contains content that you configure in the StoryTeller Process. For example, tables or charts with business data. For more information, see
Exposing a Story in Composition Center in the
StoryTeller documentation.
A group can contain the other content types. For example, text and image resources. The business user use groups is to apply identical rules to several resources. The groups can also be used to prevent content from being separated into several pages. Groups cannot be shared or re-used.