With the Account Administration tool, an administrator in your company can create and provision accounts. You can create assign three types of roles to accounts, all of which are based on Adobe IDs.
For background information about Adobe IDs, see Using Adobe IDs for digital publishing.
For an overview of DPS publishing accounts and essential tasks, see Adobe DPS Getting Started Guide (PDF).
When you subscribe to the Digital Publishing Suite, one account from your company is assigned the Administrator role. This is called the master account. The master account does not appear in the Account Administration tool. You cannot remove or edit the master account. You cannot use the master account as an Application account; use a different Adobe ID for publishing folios.
When you use the master account to sign in to the Account Administration tool, you can assign delegate roles to other accounts. A delegate role is directly tied to the master account. Each delegate account requires its own email address. You can assign delegate roles based on an existing Adobe ID which has not yet been verified to work with DPS, or you can create a new delegate Adobe ID based on an existing email account. However, you cannot create a delegate account from an Adobe ID that has already been verified to work with DPS.
Once an Adobe ID (and its associated email address) is used for a delegate account, it is difficult to untie the Adobe ID from the delegate account.
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Be cautious about using individuals’ email addresses for delegate accounts. Once you use an Adobe ID as a delegate account, that Adobe ID can be used for digital publishing only with your company. Removing the Adobe ID disables it from using any DPS features.
An Adobe ID that is not assigned to any specify company account is called a designer account. Designer accounts can be created at https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/CreateAccount.html.
To change an email account associated with an Adobe ID, see Changing the email associated with Adobe ID.
After you add a delegate account to your company, you can assign as many as three roles to that account.
Administrator
The master account is assigned the Administrator role, but you can assign the Administrator role to other accounts. An account that is assigned an Administrator role can use the Account Administration tool.
Application
With an application role, you can associate a custom viewer with published folios. Use a different Adobe ID for each custom viewer you create. Avoid using the Adobe IDs of individuals. For example, if you publish multiple cooking magazines, you can create one Adobe ID for grill cooking (dps.grillcooking@cooktoday.com), one for Creole cooking (dps.creolecooking@cooktoday.com), and so on.
Use the Application account to create and publish folios and view analytics. When you specify the Application ID in the DPS App Builder, the custom viewer you create displays the folios published with that account.
DPS App Builder
With a DPS App Builder account, you can sign in to the DPS App Builder and create custom viewer apps. You can use the same Adobe ID for both the Application account and the DPS App Builder account, or you can create a DPS App Builder account that lets you create apps using one or more Application accounts.
For best results, create dedicated email addresses for delegate accounts using a company domain. For example, the following accounts could be used for a company that publishes cooking magazines:
Application accounts: dps.grillcooking@cooktoday.com, dps.creolecooking@cooktoday.com, and dps.frenchcooking@cooktoday.com
DPS App Builder account: dps.builder@cooktoday.com
Administrator account: dps.admin@cooktoday.com
Delegate account with no role: dps.janedoe@cooktoday.com
In this example, one DPS App Builder account would be used to sign in and publish all three magazine viewer apps. Another approach is to assign both an Application role and a DPS App Builder role to the same account.
In this example, a special delegate account was created for Jane Doe. Jane uses this account to publish proprietary information for the company. Jane should use this account only to create content for this particular publisher.
Do not use the admin tool to create or assign Adobe IDs of individual designers to your company account unless you want to limit those accounts to using DPS tools only for your company. Individual designers can create valid Adobe IDs using the DPS Dashboard (https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/CreateAccount.html).
Delegates are directly affected by the master account. If a master account is closed, all delegate accounts are also closed.
Content downloaded from a delegate account is charged against the master account. Any content published by the delegates will be charged as downloads against the master account.
If you build folios using one Adobe ID before you subscribe to DPS, you might not be able to assign an Application role to the previous Adobe ID. You need to assign the Application role to a new delegate account and create new folios. There are two ways to add articles the new folios.
Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard.
Click Account Administration.
If the Account Administration option is dimmed, the account you used to sign in does not have Administrator privileges. If you sign in using your primary account ID and don’t have access to the Account Administration tool, please send a message to dmpubsup@adobe.com to request that your account be enabled. Once the primary account is enabled, that user can sign in and enable additional administrator accounts.
For an existing Adobe ID that has not yet been verified to work with DPS, specify the Adobe ID of the user you want to modify, and click Submit. If the Adobe ID has been verified to work with DPS, it cannot be added.
To create a new Adobe ID, first create a valid email account, but don’t sign in to any DPS service. Click Create A New Adobe ID, specify the information, and click Create Account. A message is sent to the email account. Click the link in this message to specify a password and verify the account.
When you edit the configuration of an Application account, you can specify settings that affect app behavior such as social sharing and analytics.
When editing the Application account, you can specify shared secret information. Shared secret information is required in iOS for subscription viewer apps and for all Amazon viewer apps that have retail folios.
While Apple calls this information code a “shared secret,” Android calls it a “public key,” and Amazon calls it a “shared key.” If you offer any retail content for a viewer that appears in Amazon Appstore, the shared key is required. For details on obtaining a shared secret, see the publishing guide associated with the platform.
Use the same shared secret information for all apps. Avoid changing the shared secret.
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After you specify the shared secret information, sign in to the DPS Dashboard using that Application account. Signing in to the Dashboard authenticates the shared secret.
Under Store Settings, you can also specify the iTunes Application URL. This URL is used in the social sharing workflow to let share recipients download the app if it’s not installed. You can obtain the iTunes Application URL even if Apple has not yet approved the app. In iTunes Connect, click the app and use the "View in App Store" link, or right-click the app and choose Copy Link Address.
Enable First Issue Entitlement
Select this option to make the most recently published retail folio available to users who download the iPad app for the first time.
If users remove the promotional retail folio, they can download it again. If they uninstall and reinstall the app, they are entitled only to the original promotional folio, not to the most recently published retail folio. For more detailed information, see First Folio Free and Digital Blow-ins.
Enable Article Preview
Select the "Enable Article Preview" option to let users preview any retail folio that includes articles marked as "Free" (use the Folio Producer Editor to mark folios as Free). When users tap the cover image of a retail folio that has free articles in the library, a Preview button appears in the preview pane below the Buy and Subscribe (if available) buttons. When users tap Preview, all articles marked as Free are downloaded, along with preview images of protected article. When users go into browse mode or swipe to view protected articles, a paywall pane covers most of each protected article.
At this time, the Free Article Preview feature is iPad only, works only in retail folios, and does not support folios that include Sections. Free articles are charged against download counts based on the number of free articles downloaded and the total number of articles in the retail folio. If a retail folio includes 20 total articles with 5 free preview articles, 1 download is counted when 4 users preview the folio. Adobe will not begin counting free folio downloads until the v27 release.
The Enable Paywall Threshold in Device Viewer setting is not supported in v26 viewers. When this feature is supported (scheduled for v27), your customers will be able to download and view the specified number of articles marked as "Metered" in the Folio Producer Editor. Once they reach the limit specified in Paywall Threshold, a paywall message appears when they browse to either Metered or Protected articles.
For more detailed information, see the DPS Developer Center article about Free Article Preview.
The Web Viewer options affect the behavior of articles that appear in the Web Viewer of a computer browser.
Application Name
The Application Name you specify appears in the title bar when a shared article is viewed in a Web Viewer browser.
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Also specify the iTunes Application URL under Store Settings so that share recipients are prompted to download the app if it’s not installed.
Enable Web Viewer
Select this option to let users view your articles in the Web Viewer in a desktop browser. If you enable Web Viewer, article views are counted against your download fulfillments as described in Social media download counts.
If you deselect this option and enable Social Sharing in DPS App Builder, social sharing links point to the Publication URL you specify in DPS App Builder, not to Web Viewer articles. The Enable Web Viewer setting has no effect when Social Sharing links are tapped on an iPad or iPhone.
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Web Viewer is disabled for trial accounts.
Hosting URL
Specify a Hosting URL only if you want to embed the shared Web Viewer content in an iframe on your website. For detailed information, see the article about Embedded Web Viewer.
Redirect URL
If the shared article cannot be found, the Redirect URL you specify appears. Create a Web page with information about your app.
To determine which link appears if a shared article is protected, specify the Publication URL in DPS App Builder.
Enable Fulfillment Limit
This option is useful for putting a limit on the overall number of articles that can be viewed in Web Viewer. Once this limit is reached, any user who tries to view a shared article in Web Viewer on the desktop is redirected to the Fulfillment Limit Reached URL that you specify. Create a Web page with information about your app.
Enable Paywall
You can set up a paywall for folio articles viewed in the Web Viewer. In the Folio Producer Editor, you can mark an article as Free, Metered, or Protected. For the v26 release, Free and Metered are effectively the same in the Web Viewer—the Free option affects only Free Article Preview in device viewers. In Web Viewer, users cannot view Protected articles, and they can view Free and Metered articles until they reach the paywall limit, or threshold. When users hit the limit of Free or Metered articles, a paywall page appears with a message and link that you specify.
If you do not set a paywall, articles marked as "Free" or "Metered" are available for viewing.
Paywall Button URL
Specify the URL where you can give users information about downloading and purchasing your app. Some publishers create a web page with information about the app, and others specify the iTunes URL of the app.
Paywall Text
Specify a brief message that appears on the paywall page. For example, you can state that the maximum number of articles has been viewed and that users can click the link to learn more about the app.
When editing the Application account, you can specify information to set up an Omniture analytics account. User data of your content is automatically collected and is available to Professional and Enterprise customers. The configuration of the Analytics integration is slightly different for Professional account owners and Enterprise account owners.
Professional
Entering data in the Analytics field is optional. Professional account owners who are already SiteCatalyst customers can have all the analytics data sent to a dedicated report suite under their SiteCatalyst account. If you do not have a SiteCatalyst account, do not enter report data. The analytics data is collected in an Adobe internal account.
Enterprise
Enterprise accounts are asked to specify a report suite name and can optionally specify the name of the company if they already have a SiteCatalyst account.
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When you specify a report suite, do NOT specify any of the following reserved prefixes: adp.ln, adp.da, or adp.sj.
When you submit the SiteCatalyst information, it can take as long as five business days to set up Omniture analytics for your app. See Omniture analytics.
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