Re-using design elements across documents

By using Fragments in your document, you can include previously created design elements. For example, overlays, address definitions etc. stored as resources in a resource set.

You can:

•	Re-use Fragments stored in any of the StoryTeller supported formats, such as SSD or RTF.

•	Re-use individual objects defined within any SSD file.

•	Embed a Fragment in your document. This means it becomes integrated in the document and is possible to edit.

•	For non-embedded Fragments, you can select to open an external editor to edit the resource.

•	Automatically or manually refresh updated, non-embedded resources

 

When you reference a Fragment from your Document, and that Fragment contains a Section, the Section will not be registered in the Document Template exported to Composition Center.

Just as any other StoryTeller document, an SSD file used for Fragments can contain several page definitions, as well as Stories that can flow between Story frames within the Fragment.

Only one page definition of the SSD file can be used at a time as a Fragment, where you specify the page to use. Both the URI to the StoryTeller document resource and the Fragment page definition can be dynamically selected in runtime. See Selecting Fragments dynamically.

If you do not specify page, the first page in the page list is used.

You can edit embedded Fragments. If the embedded Fragment is an SSD file with more than one page definition, all page definitions in the document are listed with their content in the Fragment Pages panel. If the SSD file contains Stories, they are listed in the Fragment Stories panel.

Note:

You can enable dynamic re-sizing of the Fragment, but the Fragment data cannot overflow to other instances.

You can also re-use Stories in other StoryTeller documents by adding a substitution that references a Story. References can be static or dynamic. See Adding external content.