Sections in Plan & Release

This article describes how sections are managed in  Plan & Release. 

About sections

Sections are the building blocks of publications. They are the equivalent to nodes in a channel. A section is also an entity type with built-in support in inriver. 

A publication is an organized collection of entities that you want to publish as a printed matter, using inriver Print and Adobe inDesign®. 

The main difference between a channel and a publication is that a publication is intended specifically for print in Adobe inDesign® while a channel is about publishing entities to any place. 

A section can be just one page, a Lookup, 2-6 pages, or whatever you need for a particular part of your publication.

Sections in inriver Plan & Release

You work with publications and sections in Plan & Release. Below is an example of a publication with sections.

Creating and managing publications and sections

Read more about working with publications and sections in Plan & Release in this article.

Good to know

• A Section ID must be unique and only contain the allowed characters A-Z and digits 0-9. 
• Give your section a name that is easy to find when searching for it. 
• Publications are managed in inriver Print and Adobe inDesign®.
• Section fields can also be used in InDesign, for example as chapter text/images, product area information, and more. Note! This requires that you add a Custom Attribute to be able to fetch this information.

Recommendations

• One Section should equal one InDesign document.
• When working with large productions, use many sections and multiple InDesign files.
• Keep sections appropriately sized, don't make them very large with hundreds of pages and thousands of products (or other entities).

Further reading

Restyled inriver Plan & Release: publications

Restyled inriver Plan & Release: creating and managing publications