Exposing a Story in Composition Center

Stories you create in StoryTeller can be made available to use in Composition Center Document Definitions. For example, in StoryTeller you can design a transaction table with a dynamic number of rows. By exposing it in Composition Center, business users can use this table in their Document Definitions.

Note:

You can not expose Stories that contain Sections or that do not have a unique name within the document.

Figure 49

Story 2 is exposed (indicated by the arrow in the bottom right of the Story icon)

You must deploy the Project to a Composition Center enabled StreamServer Process for the Story to be available in Composition Center. For more information see the Composition Center documentation.

Note:

Only the Story name is displayed in Composition Center, not the actual content of the Story.

To expose a Story in Composition Center

1	Select the Story in the Stories panel.

2	In the Properties panel Object category, select Expose.

Example 50

Exposed Story

In this example, a utility company uses slightly different invoices for different customer categories. All invoices list charges per fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet connection etc. Since gold customers always use more than one service, their invoices also display the charges as a chart.

The invoice is designed in StoryTeller. The texts and images related to the different customer categories are managed in StreamStudio Composition Center.

The chart intended for gold customers is designed in a Story in StoryTeller. The Story is exposed. In Composition Center, the Story is added to a section and a rule is created. The rule states that the chart is only included in output when the Customer category = Gold.

When output is generated, the list of charges and the chart are created from input data.

 

 

Do not rename a Story after it has been exposed to Composition Center.