Catalog Producer

From the Assets console, click/tap the Global Nav icon and choose Navigation from the list. 

From the Navigation pane, choose Catalogs.

From the toolbar in the Catalogs page, click/tap Create and then select Catalog from the list.

In the Catalog Details page, enter a name for the catalog and specify tags, if any. You can also add a thumbnail image for the catalog.

Click Save. A confirmation message notifies that the catalog is created. Click Done to close the dialog.

In the Catalog Producer console, click the catalog you created to open it.

To add pages to the catalog, click Create from the toolbar and then choose the Page option.

From the wizard, select an InDesign template for your page. Then, click Next.

In the Name box, specify a name for the page.

To associate products with the catalog page, click the Browse icon beside the Product box and choose the desired product using the product picker.

Click the Confirm icon to select the folder.

Click Next. The wizard displays the properties for the product on the left pane. The predefined properties for the InDesign template appear on the right pane.

Drag the product properties from the left pane to the InDesign template properties on the right pane to create a mapping between them.

Click the Preview tab on the right pane to view how the page appears in real time.

After you map the InDesign properties to product properties, click Create and then click Done to close the confirmation dialog. A page is created for your catalog.

To create more pages, repeat steps 7-14. To create pages for other products that are similar to the page that you already created, select the page and click/tap the Create similar pages icon from the toolbar.

Select products from the product picker.

Click/tap the Add icon, and then click/tap Next. Click/tap Ok to close the dialog. Pages similar to the one you created before are included in your catalog.

To add any existing InDesign file to your catalog pages, click/tap the Add to existing page icon and select the InDesign file. Click/tap Add from the toolbar and then click OK to close the dialog.   

If the metadata of the products that you reference in the catalog pages is changed, the changes are not automatically reflected in the catalog pages. In addition, a banner labeled Stale appears on the product images in all the referencing catalog pages, which indicates that the metadata for the referenced products is not up-to-date.

To ensure that the product images reflect the latest metadata changes, select the page in the Catalog console and click/tap the Update page icon from the toolbar.

To rearrange the pages in catalog, click the Assemble icon from the toolbar to open the wizard. The carousel on top allows to reorder pages by dragging them. You can also remove pages.

Click Next. To add an existing InDesign file as a cover page to the catalog, click the Browse icon beside the Choose Cover Page box and specify the path for the desired cover page template.

To add page numbering to the catalog pages, select the Add Page Numbering option.

Click Save, and then click Done to close the confirmation dialog.

To generate a preview for the catalog you created, select it in the Catalog Producer console, and then click the Preview icon from the toolbar.

Review the order of the pages in your catalog in the preview.

If necessary, reorder the pages in the left pane by dragging them to the appropriate location using the mouse and then click Save. Click Done to close the confirmation dialog.